The Indianapolis Star profiles the Indy TenPoint Coalition, a controversial nonprofit organization that takes credit for reducing violence in a few neighborhoods. Some hail the group as a solution to urban violence. Others say there is little proof that its work has made a difference....
Under New Jersey’s new bump-stock ban, which was approved in January, residents were supposed to destroy or turn in their bump stocks by mid-April. So far, New Jersey State Police say, they have not received a single one, reports Stateline.org. Months after a man used...
In response to this month’s knife attack in Paris, President Donald Trump tweeted: So sad to see the Terror Attack in Paris. At some point countries will have to open their eyes & see what is really going on. This kind of sickness & hatred is...
A lawsuit filed this week alleges that a former Neptune Township, N.J., police sergeant who gunned down his ex-wife as she sat helplessly in her car had an internal affairs file that is nearly 700 pages–and was asked to stay on the force even after...
Will ending the scourge of domestic violence require the kind of mass public campaign that helped reduce drinking and driving? Community advocates and practitioners speaking at a conference at John Jay College Wednesday argued that, despite the pervasiveness of intimate partner violence (IPV) across all economic...
The Bratislava Castle, overlooking the Danube The D&O Diary’s Eastern European sojourn continued earlier this week with a very brief stop in Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia, which is located about a two-hour train ride from Budapest. With a population of only about 450,000, Bratislava is...