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  • Photo depicts a protest against gun violence | Photo by Chip Vincent on Unsplash

    The Year That Was: Guns & School Safety — 10 Years After Sandy Hook

    December 14th, 2022
    category: Feature Stories

    By a Biometrica staffer Ten years ago today, on Dec. 14 2012, a then 20-year-old gunman fired 154 rounds in under five minutes using various types of firearms, and killed 20 children and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown,...

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  • United States, Australia Sign Deal To Combat Serious Crime

    December 16th, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica staffer On Wednesday, Dec. 15 the U.S. and Australia signed a landmark agreement that will facilitate access to electronic data for investigations of serious crime, including terrorism and child sexual abuse. The agreement is authorized by the Clarifying Lawful...

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  • BJS Survey Finds Violent Victimization Rate Dropped 22% Between 2019 And 2020

    December 15th, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica staffer Earlier this month, the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) released data from a survey that showed a 22% decline in the total violent victimization rate between 2019 and 2020. In addition, the survey found that the incidence of...

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  • Violence Against Women Office Awards Grants To 11 Indian Tribal Governments

    December 9th, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica staffer On Wednesday, Dec. 8, the Justice Department's Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) announced awards to 11 Indian Tribal governments to support them in exercising special domestic violence criminal jurisdiction (SDVCJ). The Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2013...

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  • Adolescents’ Mental Health Deteriorated In 2020, While ‘Hostile Behaviors’ At School Jumped Pre-Pandemic: Reports

    December 8th, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica staffer Two reports released recently draw attention to a mental health crisis plaguing schools and students in the U.S. One is an advisory issued by the Surgeon General, which warns that “symptoms of anxiety, depression and other mental health...

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  • Representative photo of a woman holding a placard that says "Silence allows violence" | Photo by Anete Lusina from Pexels

    Gender-Based Killings Continue To Disproportionately Affect Women & Girls Globally: UNODC

    December 8th, 2021
    category: Feature Stories

    By a Biometrica staffer On average, a woman or girl is killed by someone in her own family every 11 minutes across the world, according to a report published by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) this month. In...

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  • Representative photo of a crime scene | Photo by Faruk Tokluoğlu from Pexels

    Crimes Against Property Remained Most Reported Major Criminal Offense Category In 2020: NIBRS Data

    December 7th, 2021
    category: Feature Stories

    By a Biometrica staffer On Monday, Dec. 6, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) published data on nearly 8.9 million criminal offenses reported via the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) in 2020. Of the total 8,879,728 offenses reported in 7,560,867 incidents, 60.5%...

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  • The Fight Against Human Trafficking: The White House’s New National Action Plan To Combat Human Trafficking

    December 6th, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica staffer In July, Biometrica wrote about how human traffickers adapted to the "new normal" after Covid-19 and appeared to be increasingly targeting children online, even as the pool of vulnerable persons who could be recruited by these criminals grew,...

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    Does Childhood Lead Exposure Really Lead To More Violent Crime?

    December 1st, 2021
    category: Feature Stories

    By Aara Ramesh The U.S. is currently in the grip of what experts are calling a historic crime wave, with violent crime — and homicide rates particularly — reaching levels previously seen in the 1980s and 1990s. In fact, over the last...

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  • Persons With Disabilities Are Increasingly Being Targeted By Criminals: BJS Data

    November 23rd, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica staffer The National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) has, once again, shown that disabled people are disproportionately targeted by criminals, and are particularly at risk of being victims of violent crimes. The rate at which disabled people are victimized, the...

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  • Representative photo of a hooded person in a dark alley | Photo by Isaac Weatherly from Pexels

    How Schools Can Help Curb Violence Among Youth

    November 22nd, 2021
    category: Feature Stories

    By a Biometrica staffer In Portsmouth, Virginia, the local police department and the Up Center are reaching out to the public as they seek mentors to help steer youth in the right direction. The two organizations have come together due to an...

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  • Firearm Used In Nearly Half Of All Indigenous Persons Homicides: CDC Report

    November 19th, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica staffer On Thursday, Nov. 18, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said in a statement that analysis of data from the National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS) was helping it uncover the characteristics surrounding homicides of American Indian and...

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  • Six Teens Injured In Drive-By Shooting At Park Near High School In Denver Surburb

    November 16th, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica staffer A drive-by shooting around 1 pm on Monday, Nov. 15,  in Aurora, Colorado, has left six teenagers (four boys and two girls between the ages of 14 and 18) injured, according to police. The incident occurred at the...

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  • Representative photo of youth displayed sitting on a graffiti-filled street | Photo by Aedrian on Unsplash

    Youth Violence, Gang-Led Or Otherwise, Appears To Be On The Rise: How The OJJDP Combats It

    November 15th, 2021
    category: Feature Stories

    By a Biometrica staffer Gang activity in the United States is said to have declined in the mid-1990s to 2000. But between 2001 and 2005, it increased again and stayed constant until around 2012, per government estimates. From around 2002-2012 annual estimates...

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  • Representative photo of a campus | Photo by Element5 Digital from Pexels

    Looking Further At Campus Police And Their Role In Tracking Violent Crime

    November 4th, 2021
    category: Feature Stories

    By a Biometrica staffer In 2019, the last year for which data is available, a total of 5,998 post-secondary institutions (across almost 11,000 campuses) reported 34,933 criminal offenses to the federal government, and 17,758 offenses related to violence against women, be that...

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  • White House Outlines Strategy To Prevent Gun-Related Suicides

    November 3rd, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica staffer Yesterday, Nov. 3, the Biden Administration announced a set of three actions it will take to help prevent suicide by use of firearms, in an effort to curb one key aspect of the broader gun violence epidemic the...

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  • Most Populous Counties In U.S. Hope To Stop ‘Ghost Gun Epidemic’

    October 18th, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By Biometrica staffer The two most populous counties in the country — Los Angeles County, California, and Cook County, Illinois — are moving to tackle the problem of “ghost guns,” as law enforcement and the government continue to grapple with an ongoing...

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  • Supreme Court Starts Its Review Of The Boston Marathon Bomber’s Sentencing

    October 14th, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica staffer Just days after the Boston Marathon took place for the first time since the Covid-19 pandemic began, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments over whether the death sentence should be reinstated for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the Boston Marathon bomber. Tsarnaev...

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  • Representative photo of a police car on a street | Photo by Matt Popovich on Unsplash

    Community Policing: An Introduction

    October 13th, 2021
    category: Feature Stories

    By a Biometrica staffer A majority of contacts between law enforcement officers (LEO) and the public only happens during emergencies, or situations that are highly charged and emotional. But these are not the most ideal circumstances for LEOs and the community they...

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  • The Gun Violence Epidemic Is Increasingly Killing More American Children And Teenagers

    October 12th, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica staffer Gun violence has steadily been claiming the lives of, or injuring, an increasing number of American children and teenagers over the years, the Associated Press reported, citing data from the Gun Violence Archive (GVA). Shootings involving the young...

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  • Shooting In Minnesota Bar Leaves One Dead, 14 Wounded

    October 11th, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica staffer A shootout at a bar in St. Paul, Minnesota, early on Sunday, Oct. 10, left one woman dead and 14 other people wounded, AP News reported. Three men are said to be in custody after the shooting. The...

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  • National Domestic Violence Awareness Month Kicks Off With Over $476M In Office On Violence Against Women Grants

    October 6th, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica staffer October is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month and the Department of Justice (DOJ) is kicking that off by announcing more than $476 million in Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) grants, it said in a statement on Tuesday,...

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  • The CDC Is Funding Research Into The Gun Violence Public Health Crisis For The First Time In A Quarter Century

    September 30th, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica staffer With the Covid-19 virus and vaccines having underscored the importance and strategic role played by objective scientific research, many, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky, are saying it’s time for us...

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  • Majority Of People Worldwide Vulnerable To Organized Crime, Warns Global Organized Crime Index

    September 29th, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica staffer The Global Organized Crime Index paints a "worrying picture of the reach, scale and impact of organized crime in 2020." The data driven analytics tool evaluated 193 United Nations member states. The 2020 report, the first published by Global Initiative,...

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  • Grizzly Scouts Members Admit To Destroying Evidence In Killing Of A Federal Officer

    September 21st, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica staffer Evidence in the alleged murder of a federal security officer in Oakland was destroyed by four Northern California members affiliated with the far right boogaloo movement, authorities said on Sep. 20. Jessie Rush, Robert Blancas, Simon Ybarra and...

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  • The Illicit Trade Of Cocaine Has Become Bloodier, More Fragmented And More Competitive: Report

    September 9th, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica staffer The latest report in the Cocaine Insights series, published by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the Europol takes a hard look at the trade in the illegal drug around the world, highlighting some of...

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  • Holiday Weekends Continue To Be Marred By Spikes In Gun Violence, With Labor Day The Latest

    September 7th, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica staffer In the course of the Labor Day weekend, five people were killed and dozens wounded in a spate of gun violence, CBS Chicago reported. This takes the total number of shootings in Chicago to more than 2,300 in 2021....

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  • Representative photo of a handgun | Photo by Thomas Def on Unsplash

    How Crime Gun Intelligence Centers Use Technology & Evidence To Combat And Prevent Violent Crime

    September 3rd, 2021
    category: Background Check ABCs

    By Deepti Govind "We know that shooters don't just stop after one shooting," ATF (the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives) Special Agent Fred Milanowski told ABC 13 News in May. The first shooting is hard, the second one is a...

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  • Evictions May Cause Crime Spike; Communities Working To Disrupt Cycle Of Violence — A Quick Look At Crime And Firearms

    August 24th, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica staffer This past weekend, Chicago police noted six shooting-related deaths and at least 39 injuries in the city over the four-day period beginning in the evening of Friday, Aug. 20, and ending early in the morning on Monday, Aug....

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  • Two More Officers Who Responded To Capitol Hill Riot Dead From Apparent Suicide

    August 3rd, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By Deepti Govind It was just last Tuesday, July 28, that the House select committee formed to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol convened its first hearing. At that hearing, the entire nation heard the emotional testimony of four...

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  • Representative photo of a Native American woman with a child | Image by iGlobalWeb from Pixabay

    How The Violence Against Women Act Might Better Protect Indigenous Women

    July 13th, 2021
    category: Feature Stories

    By Aara Ramesh Among the many verdicts handed down by the U.S. Supreme Court last month was the unanimous affirmation of the right of tribal law enforcement officers to detain non-Native people who they reasonably suspect to have been involved in a...

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  • New York Governor Declares Gun Violence A Disaster Emergency, Lays Out Plan To Tackle ‘Public Health Crisis’

    July 7th, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By Aara Ramesh On Tuesday, July 6, Governor Andrew Cuomo issued a first-of-its-kind executive order declaring the escalating gun violence in New York a disaster emergency. The new edict is just the first step in a broader seven-step plan outlined by the...

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  • Fourth Of July Took A Bloody Turn As Gun Violence Killed At Least 150 Over The Weekend

    July 6th, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica staffer There were over 400 shootings across the country during the Fourth of July weekend, which ended up claiming the lives of at least 150 people, according to data compiled by the Gun Violence Archive (GVA), a CNN report said....

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  • Representative photo of a man holding a gun | Photo by un-perfekt | Pixabay

    Biden-Harris Administration Launches Comprehensive Strategy To Combat The Gun Violence Epidemic

    June 24th, 2021
    category: Feature Stories

    By a Biometrica staffer President Joe Biden has repeatedly said that the United States is experiencing an epidemic of gun violence. On Wednesday, June 23, his administration unveiled an extremely detailed plan to combat this epidemic. The Biden-Harris Comprehensive Strategy to Prevent...

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  • Concept photo of a child sitting with face covered | Photo by Hans Kretzmann | Pixabay

    Number Of Arrests Involving Juveniles In 2019 Was At Near 40-Year Low

    May 26th, 2021
    category: Feature Stories

    By a Biometrica staffer Source: Screengrab from the DOJ-OJP report showing total juvenile arrests since 1980 In 2019, the number of arrests involving juveniles — persons younger than 18 — was estimated to be less than 700,000. That's the lowest level since...

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  • A stressed out nurse takes a breath by resting on her haunches in a hospital.

    Abused, Intimidated By A Patient’s Husband, I Was Still Lucky. Other Doctors Or Nurses Might Not Be.

    April 28th, 2021
    category: Feature Stories

    A 2018 ACEP survey of 3,500 respondents, all ER physicians, found that one-third had been punched and spit upon. In 97% of these cases, a patient committed the physical assault, while 28% reported that a patient’s family member or friend was also...

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  • CSI Photographer taking pictures of a crime scene © Martial Genest | Dreamstime.com

    Murder Fuels Spike In Violent Crimes In Q4 2020 Reporting Data From FBI

    March 17th, 2021
    category: Feature Stories

    By a Biometrica Staffer Image Source: Screengrab from the FBI's latest quarterly Uniform Crime Report showing the percentage increase/decrease in all violent crimes reported, over four consecutive quarters. On March 15, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) published its latest quarterly assessment...

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  • Former LA 311 Boyz Gang Member, Girlfriend Arrested In Idaho

    February 16th, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By Anand Vasu Steven Gazlay, a former 311 Boyz gang member, and Dana Nee, his girlfriend, were arrested on Feb 14. in Madison County, Idaho, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal. The two were out on bail in Las Vegas when they left. ...

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