January 15, 2013, 8:03 AM
As the White House considers proposals to allocate federal money for armed guards in schools, prominent school discipline reform groups have issued a report denouncing the idea as a misguided reaction to the school shooting in Newtown, Conn. “Placing more police in schools has...
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August 16, 2012, 12:05 AM
An 11-year-old boy’s ejection from his school highlights how the facilities often aren’t trained to deal with inner-city trauma when it spills into the classroom.
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March 2, 2012, 12:05 AM
While last month's shooting death of a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Long Beach by a fellow employee is highly unusual, gunfire involving ICE employees is not. ICE employees have accidentally or intentionally fired their guns or been involved in an operation where there...
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January 4, 2012, 12:05 AM
A new California law that prohibits the carrying of an unloaded handgun in public already is under legal attack. Charles Nichols, who has set up an advocay group in Redondo Beach, filed a lawsuit late last year in federal court against the state seeking to overturn restrictions on where he can...
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May 16, 2011, 12:05 AM
Four years ago, Oakland preteens and teens were statistically more likely to die in a firearm homicide than kids in nearly all other major U.S. cities. On Friday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a report on firearm deaths in metropolitan areas [PDF] in 2006 and 2007,...
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January 24, 2011, 12:05 AM
Police in Southern California last year traced nearly 22,000 guns used in crimes, two-thirds of the state’s total firearms haul. Los Angeles County accounted for by far the largest number of "crime guns." But it came in second to its neighbor, Orange County, on a per capita...
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December 13, 2010, 12:05 AM
The values of safety and therapy are clashing at the state’s mental hospitals, where police officers are pressing for clearance to carry guns. Officers are not seeking to carry firearms on hospital grounds. Rather, the union that represents officers wants them to be armed when patrolling...
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