Police shootings occupy a strange place in American political discourse. They are statistically rare relative to the tens of millions of annual police-civilian interactions, yet they frequently dominate political debates. In 2022 alone, an estimated 49.2 million U.S. residents age sixteen or older had at...
Read MoreThis post is based on a paper that was presented at the 2024 Firearms Law Works-In-Progress Conference. The Conference is held each year on a home-and-away basis with the Duke University Center for Firearms Law. This post also appears on the CFL’s Second Thoughts blog....
Read MoreIn March 2024, New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced that the New York City Police Department (NYPD) would pilot electromagnetic gun detectors at various entrances to the city’s subway stations. Because all weapons are banned in the New York City transit system, it is...
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