#multi-victim gun homicides

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 Psychosocial Dynamism of Public Mass Shooting: A Reevaluation by Saeed Shoja Shafti MD in Journal of Clinical Case Reports Medical Images and Health Sciences

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Okay, so, a while ago I made this post, which describes the link between mass shootings and domestic violence. Here is an update and an expansion on this topic.

First of all, data about “mass shootings” is ridiculously inconsistent, mainly because there is no official definition of a mass shooting. Therefore, these statistics will describe overall trends, but you should keep the limitations of such data in mind.

Mass shootings and domestic violence

According to Everytown Research, the majority (53%) of mass shootings were domestic violence-related.

According to Geller et al., in 68% of mass shootings the perpetrator either killed at least one partner or family member or had a history of domestic violence

Nearly 3 in 4 (72%) children and teens killed in mass shootings died in an incident connected to domestic violence.

79% of domestic violence-related shootings occurred entirely in the home. This is a particularly important statistic, as many analyses of mass shootings only include incidents that occurred at least partially outside of the home.

While research examining the connections between IPV, misogyny, and mass shootings is severely limited, analysis of recent mass shootings indicates shooters often had histories of IPV, stalking, or harassment.

Guns and domestic violence

92 percent of all women killed with guns in high-income countries were from the US

Access to a gun makes it five times more likely that the abusive partner will kill his female victim.

Two thirds of child fatalities involving domestic violence were caused by guns

Other

Almost all mass shooters (98%) are male. Even in cases where a female mass shooter was involved, they are usually working with a male shooter.  

It is frustratingly hard to find data on the sex of mass shooting victims, but I did an independent analysis of data from the GunViolenceArchive (methodology below cut). Using this I found that, of all the cases where the perpetrator sex was known, 3.5% of all mass shooters since 2013 were female. In addition, I found that, of all the cases where the victim (injured or killed) sex was known, 27.5% of all mass shooting victims since 2013 were female. Importantly, these figures do not take the context of the shooting (i.e. domestic, drug-releated, gang-releated, etc.) into consideration. I will try and refine my methodology using this database and make further posts in the future.

According to one paper, mass homicides had the highest proportion of female victims (52%), and also the highest proportion of child victims compared to multi and single homicides

Methodology for the final bullet point:

Using GunViolenceArchive’s database search feature, I selected:

Incident Characteristic = Mass Shooting (4+ victims injured or killed excluding the subject/suspect/perpetrator, one location)

Participant’s Type = Subject-Suspect for the first analysis and Victim for the second analysis

Created an Any group where Participant’s Gender = Male or Female

Filtered the results by year (each export was limited to 2000 entries, so I divided it into years to ensure I didn’t miss any data points; years 2020 and 2021 had to be split into two groups for the victim category)

Results display = participants

References:

Fowler, K. A., Leavitt, R. A., Betz, C. J., Yuan, K., & Dahlberg, L. L. (2021). Examining differences between mass, multiple, and single-victim homicides to inform prevention: Findings from the National Violent Death Reporting System. Injury Epidemiology, 8(1), 49. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40621-021-00345-7

Geller, L. B., Booty, M., & Crifasi, C. K. (2021). The role of domestic violence in fatal mass shootings in the United States, 2014–2019. Injury Epidemiology, 8(1), 38. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40621-021-00330-0

GUN VIOLENCE ARCHIVE. (2022). www.gunviolencearchive.org/

Guns and violence against women: America’s uniquely lethal intimate partner violence problem. (n.d.). Everytown Research & Policy. Retrieved May 28, 2022, from https://everytownresearch.org/report/guns-and-violence-against-women-americas-uniquely-lethal-intimate-partner-violence-problem/

Mass shootings in america. (n.d.). Everytown Research & Policy. Retrieved May 28, 2022, from https://everytownresearch.org/maps/mass-shootings-in-america/

Most comprehensive mass shooter database. (n.d.). The Violence Project. Retrieved May 28, 2022, from https://www.theviolenceproject.org/mass-shooter-database/

[rmtndew]

All I’ve Ever Known

Summary: Fiona’s life is a shattered fraction of what it used to be. She’s trying to navigate her new normal when she meets Detective Marshall, who gives her something more to look forward to.

Pairing: Marshall and OFC.

Rating: PG

Warnings: Mentions of death, cancer.

A/N - This was intended as a short drabble but it got out of hand and became a multi-chapter story instead. It’s my first Marshall fic and the first fan fic that I’ve written in over a decade. The title comes from the song ‘All I’ve Ever Known’ from Hadestown: ‘I was alone so long, I didn’t even know that I was lonely. Out in the cold so long, I didn’t even know that I was cold. Turned my collar to the wind, this is how it’s always been. All I’ve ever known is how to hold my own, but now I want to hold you, too.’

Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 4, Chapter 5

The first Wednesday in October was the first day that truly felt like fall had arrived. There was a chill in the air that morning and the fallen leaves had taken on a lovely earthy smell after the rain from the night before had blown them off the trees and pummeled them to the ground. I made a mental note to ask one of the neighbor boys to clean the leaves off the driveway and stone path through the yard so Mom didn’t accidentally slip on them. She’d been so cooped up that summer, I didn’t want anything to be in her way of finally getting to enjoy the weather.

The drive to work was quiet and lovely. The sun warmed my car and when I reached the catering shop where I worked, I sat there for a few minutes, drinking my coffee and soaking up the feeling on my skin. I always got to work early so that I could have those few peaceful moments before the chaos of the day started.

Once inside the shop, I started working with my boss Darcy on filling the boxes for the day's orders. We had two major deliveries that day - a work conference at a hotel, and a training seminar being held in the public library late that afternoon. Other than that, we had our standing order for the homicide unit of the police department. At the beginning of the year, a man had been murdered and according to the news that covered it, there was next to no evidence and the case was sure to go cold. But a couple of the detectives wouldn’t let go and against the odds, they found the murderer and got a full confession out of him. The victim’s wife had been so grateful that she decided to have an ongoing order every Wednesday to buy lunch for the detectives who’d solved the murder, as well as their colleagues. She had received quite a bit of money after her husband’s death and decided to use some of it to pay them back in a small way. That order was always mine. It was fairly small and I could carry it in my car. The detectives were always polite but never tried to make small talk, which I enjoyed. The chatty orders went to Darcy’s nephew Nick, who could hold a conversation with a brick wall and enjoy it. 

Once the boxes for the detectives were filled and loaded into my car, I drove down to the station. I took the dolly from my trunk and strapped down the two insulated containers that had the boxed lunches packed in them. The wind whipped around me as I worked, blowing my hair in my eyes. I pushed it away and held it back with my free hand as I wheeled the food behind me. When I got into the building, an officer went through the containers, as always, to make sure I wasn’t bringing in any weapons, or whatever. The first few times he checked them, I was nervous that he’d find something, knowing full well that there was absolutely nothing illegal in them. Then, once I got to know him a bit, I had considered bringing him a cookie from the shop since I saw him every week, but then the irrational fear that he would think I was trying to bribe him to overlook the non-existent illegal materials I wasn’t trying to smuggle in took over. So, like with everything else in my life, I pushed away any urge, no matter how small, to socially interact with anyone longer than absolutely necessary. That’s why, after delivering there for several weeks, I knew he was Officer Bates (he wore a badge) and I was just ‘Waverly’, as in Waverly Box Catering, my company's name. 

Once Officer Bates checked to make sure everything in my containers was safe, he walked me to the elevator and hit the button for me. Thankfully the elevator was empty so that I wasn’t forced to make small talk with the officers or detectives outside of the homicide unit that always questioned why none of the other units got free lunches. The first few times I’d been asked it was awkward, all the other times after those were both awkward and annoying. 

When I reached the homicide unit floor, I made my way to their break room, where some of the detectives were waiting for me. I started unpacking the boxed lunches, placing them on the table, making sure that the names were clearly visible. As I placed the empty insulated containers back on my dolly, my phone rang. Normally I didn’t take calls on the job, but it was from Mom’s doctor’s office. 

I left the break room and found a quiet hall to answer the phone. It was a nurse called Karen confirming Mom’s appointment the following week. We’d made sure to write it on the calendar to remember it, but I thanked her for the reminder anyway and told her that we’d see her next Wednesday. After hanging up, I went back to the break room to collect my equipment. I was surprised to find that every single box had been claimed but one. I glanced at the name: Detective Marshall. Normally I didn’t keep track of who ordered what after the boxes had been filled and labeled, but I knew Detective Marshall’s order by heart. While every other detective switched their orders up, trying different things on the menu, Detective Marshall’s had remained the same every week. A cuban sandwich - whole, plain chips, and a peanut butter cookie. There were times when I’d be doing mindless tasks - washing the dishes, brushing my teeth, filling Mom’s pill box - when their order would randomly play through my mind, like some strange mantra. It was an odd thing to find calming but it reminded me of one of the exercises my therapist had me do as a teenager when my anxiety attacks would get bad. She had me multiply numbers, or mentally list every detail of my bedroom that I could think of, or recite the alphabet backwards. It was simple, mundane, ground exercises and without ever knowing me, Detective Marshall had become my adult version. 

I was about to leave when a uniformed officer came in. He went to the coffee pot but kept eyeing the box. It was nothing to me, really, if he took it. Detective Marshall could probably handle themselves against a lunch thief, but my gut wouldn’t let me let it go. So instead of leaving, I decided to take the box and hand deliver it.

I left my dolly behind and made my way back down the hall where I’d taken my call earlier. I’d noticed several detectives had private offices there and assumed their office would be there, too. I was right. I found Lieutenant Detective Marshall’s name engraved in a gold name plate mounted on a closed door. I took a deep breath before giving a hard and loud but short knock. 

“Yeah,” a man’s voice called out. 

He didn’t say anything else but I took it as an invitation to open the door. When I did, I was met with my first sight of Detective Marshall: A tall man with a short beard and a head of messy brown curls. He was wearing a forest green sweater, the sleeves pushed up to show his forearms. A gun and badge were clipped to the side of his jeans that hugged his muscular thighs. He was holding a folder, looking at it intently. After a moment, he looked up at me. He must have expected it to be someone he worked with because his expression went from neutral to confused in less than a second. He tilted his head, a crease appearing between his eyes - his beautiful blue eyes - as his brow furrowed. 

“Can I help you?”  

“I, um…” I swallowed hard. “I’m from Waverly Catering. I brought you your lunch,” I said, frozen on the spot at the entrance to his office. 

He looked more confused. “Don’t you usually leave them in the break room?” he asked. He sounded like he had a British accent.  

“Yes. And I did. But you didn’t come to get it. I was about to leave and it was the only one left and an officer came in, eyeing it, I was afraid that they would take it.” I suddenly felt my face get hot as this handsome man stared at me while I mumbled out some weird explanation for why I was interrupting his work. “Sorry,” I said, holding out the box. “Here.”

The slightest hint of a smile tugged at one corner of his mouth as he walked towards me. “Thank you.” He took the box from my outstretched hand, his fingers lightly brushing mine as he did. I was sure it was an accident and yet it instantly made my pulse race. “I appreciate it.” 

“You’re welcome,” I said, then turned to get out of there before I could embarrass myself further. 

“Do you make the cookies?”

I stopped and looked back at him. “What?”

He held up his box. “Are you the one who makes the cookies in here or do you just deliver?” 

“Oh. Yeah, I make them most of the time.”

He gave me a short lived, closed lip smile. “They’re very good.” 

My brain reacted as if I’d never heard a more flattering compliment in my life and I had to physically restrain myself from giggling. “Thank you,” I managed to say without betraying my giggling brain. “Have a good day.”

I left his office feeling like a teenage girl who’d just said something embarrassing in front of her crush and I couldn’t figure out why. The feeling lasted until I was back in my car. 

“Come on, Fiona, you’re a grown woman,” I whispered to myself, massaging my temples. “Don’t do this. Don’t do this.”

The last thing I needed on top of all of my responsibilities and already emotionally complicated current life situation was an unnecessary crush on a man just because he had pretty eyes and liked my cookies. But good heavens his eyes were pretty.

    _____________________________________

When I got home that afternoon, I found Mom in the living room. She was watching a cooking show. I went and gave her a kiss on the top of her head. Her hair was growing back just enough to feel like soft baby hair. I jokingly called it her duck feathers.

“How was your day, sweetie?” she asked.

I sat on the arm of the couch, facing her in the big recliner that swallowed her up. “It was good. Not too busy. I had my delivery to the police station again,” I said, letting myself grin. “I met one of the detectives, too. He was very handsome.” 

She looked at me, her cheeks a pretty pink color. It was such a wonderful sight after months of her being pale and gray. “Oh! What does he look like?” 

“He looks...manly,” I said. She laughed. “He was taller than me, which is always rare and attractive, and he has curly hair, and a beard, which I’m not usually attracted to but it really worked for him.” I sighed. “And his eyes. They were such a lovely blue.”

“Is he single?”

I shrugged and laughed. “I don’t know. I didn’t check for a ring. It wasn’t really that type of interaction,” I said. “I was just giving him his lunch and was surprised by how gorgeous he was.” I stood up. “Oh, and I think he’s English. He sounded like it anyway.”

“Honey, look for a ring next week!” 

“I won’t deliver next week, Nick will. You’ve got your appointment with Dr. Turner,” I reminded her. “I’m going to start dinner. Do you want anything special?”

She pointed at the TV. “They’re making chicken carbonara, it looks awfully tempting.”

I smiled. “I think I might be able to rustle some up for you. I’ll let you know when I’m done.”

“Thank you, Fi.”

[averyjarhman]

Watch "Rickey Smiley Saying What Someone Needs To Say" on YouTube

"What Happened To Our Decency?" ~Rickey Smiley

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Rickey Smiley, addresses Health & Social issues, PARENTING, family, gang violence, Community Fear.

Back in the day, Tupac Shakur, a Mega-popular American recording artist and Gun Violence Homicide victim, shared his definition for THUGLIFE, as well as his belief that it impacts EVERYONE of ALL AGES AND BACKGROUNDS >>>

*"The HATE U Give Little Infants Fvvks EVERYONE"* ~Tupac Shakur, Childhood Trauma (ACEs) Victim

Apparently the HATE young Tupac (born 1971) experienced or witnessed, inspired him to not only create his often misinterpreted THUGLIFE Child Neglect, Abuse, Abandonment and Maltreatment AWARENESS PREVENTION PSA...

...Tupac chose to tattoo THUGLIFE in bold letters across his ONCE neglected, hungry "hurting" belly.

Indicating to me he was pretty serious about PREVENTING HATE.

Tupac explains THUGLIFE:

https://youtu.be/0TfEr_BLW30/

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The GOOD NEWS:

According to SCIENTIFIC Medical Research, Tupac was 💯 correct!

Early Brain Child Development SCIENTIST, Dr. Bruce D. Perry MD, PhD, spills the beans to Childhood Trauma (ACEs) victim Oprah Winfrey, offering SCIENTIFIC medical research explaining why children who grow up witnessing or experiencing violence, chaos, uncertainty, inconsistency or neglect are more vulnerable, having much HIGHER RATES of risk for mental health problems, much higher rates of risk for doing poorly in school or just functioning in the world:

https://youtu.be/VgLwxXMXJZs/

Learn why 'SOULutions' oriented Child Abuse Awareness, Education & PREVENTION Advocate, California Surgeon General Dr. Nadine Burke Harris, MD, FAAP, MPH, Founder of the 'Center for Youth Wellness', believes a NATIONAL MOVEMENT is required to educate citizens about our Nation's Child Care Public Health CRISIS:

https://vimeo.com/119419175

Cali Surgeon General and pediatrician Dr. Nadine Burke Harris explains Childhood Trauma, Child Neglect, Maltreatment and ADULT MENTAL HEALTH:

https://youtu.be/eQEFcM5NXRI/

Dr. Harris offers REAL SOLUTIONS for preventing Violence & HATE:

https://youtu.be/OMbYUfiUsco/

The SAD NEWS:

Recognizing many American citizens of African descent support Democratic Party values and ideology, as well as a COMMUNITY CODE OF SILENCE rule and SNITCHES GET STITCHES policy, I am beyond heartbroken knowing Joe 'Unity' Biden and Kamala Harris, our Nation's Chief Elected Problem Solvers, will NEVER, EVER, NOT IN A MILLION YEARS, address the primary reason for untold numbers of American children and teens of African descent SUFFERING, THRU NO FAULT OF THEIR OWN, a traumatic childhood upbringing fraught with Pain, Struggles, Hardships, Uncertainty, Community Violence and FEAR!

https://www.firststar.org/black-children-have-highest-abuse-rates/ by BlackVoiceNews

"We need more people who CARE; you know what I'm saying? We need more women, mothers, fathers, we need more of that..." ~Tupac Shakur

If a CARING, responsible fellow American or foreign-born citizen has developed a plan for PREVENTING American children and teens from SUFFERING, THRU NO FAULT OF THEIR OWN, a traumatic, potential life scarring childhood upbringing fraught with Struggles, Pain, Hardships, Depression, Uncertainty, Sorrow, Demeaning Government Handouts, Resentment, Sadness, Intra-Racial Discrimination, Community Violence and FEAR...

...I look forward to learning their SOLUTION for ending POVERTY, largely created by our Nation's unhealthy, potential life scarring Culture of Generational Child Neglect, Abuse and Maltreatment evolving from America's multi-generational, ignorant, once legal Culture Of Racism.

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Tagged:

"FOLLOW THE SCIENCE"

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[truecrimesposts]

Blueprint for Murder

Kemi Adeyoola

On June 28 2006, 18-year-old Kemi Adeyoola, daughter of a multi millionaire, was sentenced to the murder of an elderly woman after an incriminating 'blueprint' was discovered. The blueprint was written during her stint in a young offenders institution. The plan? A truly 'fiendish' crime, brutally stabbing 84 year old Anne Mendel 14 times. She was convicted at the Old Bailey yesterday and sentenced today to a recommended minimum of a least 20 years behind bars.

No one could understand why this twisted teen targeted elderly Anne Mendel, they were neighbours for a short time in North London. On first meeting Anne Mendel the first thing that you'd notice would be her size, at around 7 stone and barely 4 foot 10 she was a small woman who had spent her whole life helping others.

Kemi Adeyoola was her complete opposite. She was working at the time as a £500 a night prostitute and had served time for shoplifting. The 'blueprint for murder' that she was later found to have written while she was in a young offenders' institution was over 18 pages long, and detailed her plan to make £3 million by killing a 'wealthy, quite elderly and defenceless' victim.

The blueprint was actually discovered in her cell while she was still in the institution, but all that was done to protect te outside world was the creation of a council monitoring team to supervise her for three months after her release. But unfortunately psychiatrists decided that Kemi wasn't a risk to the public and tragically less than a month after the supervision ended, Anne Mendel was dead.

81 year old Leonard Mendel, Anne's husband, found Anne Mendel wearing blood soaked pyjamas and pink dressing gown, with a pile of clothes thrown on top of her.

Kemi who is the daughter of a property tycoon worth around £10 million, faces a life sentence. After this verdict those closely following the case stated that they believed that she was 'born to kill' and that she was a 'supremely arrogant phschopath with a total disregard for humanity'.

Kemi has since been disowned by her father Bola Adeyoola, he stated:

'Nobody is born evil but what she did was evil. She is no longer my daughter. I will never see her again, and don't want her anywhere near me. I regret the day I ever met her mother. When I saw Mrs Mendel's picture I started crying. As a Christian, I can't believe anyone would do that.'

Mr Adeyoola, a 49 year old former boxer who lived in a £2 million Berkshire home with his latest wife, had previously given his daughter free accommodation in the home as well as a £140 a week job.

Discussing this he said, 'She was staying with me until a month before the murder, when I found out she had been shoplifting. I do wonder wether this woman would still be alive if I hadn't kicked her out. At first I couldn't accept that somebody with my blood in her veins could do this to anyone - but then I saw the evidence. She should rot in hell.'

His marriage to Kemi's mother Mercuria lasted barely 4 years, and he had very little contact during the upbringing of his three children. Mercuria also has a fourth child from a different relationship.

She and her children moved to a succession of homes in places including Cheltenham and Peterborough, frequently alienating neighbours. While staying in one specific property in Gloucestershire, Kemi reportedly killed the goldfish in a neighbour's pond and blamed it on a cat.

The teenage killer briefly boarded at £23,000-a-year Wycliffe College. The independent school at Stonehouse in the Cotswolds prides itself on its academic and sporting achievements, but Kemi only lasted a few months because of a row over who was paying her fees.

The family then moved to Elmcroft Road in Golders Green for several months, living next to Mr and Mrs Mendel.

The elderly couple had been married for 50 years and lived a quiet, rewarding life. They had two children, and 14 grandchildren and great grandchildren.

Their son Yitzhak appealed for help after his mother's murder said 'My mother spent every day of her week performing good deeds and charity work. She devoted her whole life to visiting the sick, helping friends and neighbours and bringing a smile to everyone she knew - even complete strangers.'

In her youth Anne Mendel had worked as a hospital secretary and joined the Army during the Second World War, helping to track German bombers blitzing the East End of London.

While living beside Anne Mendel, Kemi locked herself out of her home and was quickly allowed into Anne's home. Anne Mendel did this despite the fact that neighbours reported Kemi subjecting residents nearby to a 'reign of terror'. Reportedly abusing young children, harassing neighbours due to their race and even smearing excrement on windows.

A resident who wanted to remain anonymous stated, "She gave a lot of trouble to one particular family. Once she lay in wait for the man, an Asian, behind a bush and punched him in the face, breaking his nose. She called his wife a "Paki lover". He said she tried to poison his dog as well.' Kemi was later arrested for this.

Other neighbours recall Mr Adeyoola sometimes turning up in his Rolls Royce to see his children, but the visits were brief and infrequent.

Kemi pretty much ignored her and by the time that she was 15 she had already fallen into bad habits. She was stealing frequently from high Street stores. She told the jury when in court that it was a skill and explained how she became adept at changing receipts to get refunds for these stolen goods.

However her arrogance outweighed her skill it seems, as after a string of convictions found herself finally facing a custodial sentence.

Her self-obsession continued and she reportedly talked to one of her siblings bragging about her acting talents when she was questioned by a youth worker. She said that she wept, mumbled and arched her back in an attempt to convince her of her 'innocence and vulnerability' to try and get herself a shorter sentence.

'It worked such a treat I could tell she was touched,' she wrote. 'I felt she sensed my anguish.'

However, her arrogance once again got in her way and she ended up at Bulwood Hall young offenders' institute in Essex for 3 months.

This young offenders institute is where she would craft her devious plan.

Her blueprint was discovered during a routine cell search, it was titled Prison and After - Making Life Again and included a shopping list and logged in detail her plan to kill dismember and dispose of a victim in pursuit of £3 million. The shopping list consisted of sharp knives or butchers knives, guns, drugs and handcuffs.

She imagined several different scenarios including stalking an elderly woman in a wealthy area, posing as a student carrying out a questionnaire.

'Run lightly and silently behind her and cover her mouth with a gloved hand,' she wrote. 'Make her so scared she co-operates. Keep calm, composed and silent. She must co-operate or take a knife to her throat. Tell her, "This is your only warning... With your butcher's knife, remove her head. Wrap it in film to contain bleeding, detach limbs one by one.'

When these writings were discovered she told her psychiatrists and prison staff that her notes were part of the draft of a novel. And incredibly, they believed her. The psychiatric assessment carried out after the document was discovered claimed that it 'did not indicate any concern that Miss Adeyoola would be pre-disposed in any way to this type of violence - nor was there any evidence of this type of violence in her past'. It described her as a 'highly intelligent and sophisticated young person . . . who with good support should make a good recovery and engage in her A level studies.' Kemi told a psychiatrist that she had accused 4 grade A GCSE's which they believed and said they felt it was a shame that she had been arrested.

However after her release in November 2004,1 education wasn't even on her radar. She moved into a flat with another teenager, telling the court that her job as an 'escort' easily paid for her £800 a month flat. She claimed that 'It is a completely legitimate and professional business. We earned up to £5,000 a week.'

In March 2005 her first month without any supervision at an end, Kemi turned her words into action.

Mr Mendel left the home for just an hour to pick up the plane tickets for their upcoming trip to Israel, and within this hour, Anne Mendel was dead. Kemi attacked the elderly woman in her home, inflicting deep wounds to the victims torso, right arm and blade with a blade that was proven to be at least 1 inch wide and 5 inches long.

A spokesman for the Barnet Youth Offending Team said: 'There was nothing in the file that would have predicted homicide. The psychiatric report did not predict any likely occurrence of this.'

Kemi appeared at her trial dressed in a pinstriped suit pink trainers and spangly belt, and she reportedly seemed completely unmoved by her crime. She was smiling and actually exchanging text messages during court recesses.

She lied to the police over the nature of the DNA evidence that had been found on Anne's body, claiming that she had actually visited the pensioner the day before the murder and that the elderly woman has scratched her hand as she helped her across the road.

Kemi then used a 16 year old girl, who can't be named, to try and construct herself an alibi for her brutal crime.

Detective Chief Inspector Steve Morris called her 'a callous and devious young woman', adding: 'Her cold, calculated use of extreme violence beggars belief.'

The police investigating the case believe that Kemi never intended to stop there. In fact, they believe that Anne Mendel may simply have been a 'dry run' before targeting a wealthier victim. Detective Sergeant Paul Belsham said: 'If she had got away with this then God knows what she might have done. She is very very dangerous.'

Mr Mendel, who has moved to Israel to live with his daughter, described his wife as someone 'whose life was taken up with kindness and giving up of herself to others The unjust end she met, having so much taken away in such an undeserving manner, left us in total shock.'

[noctomania]

Mass Shootings and White Guys

Well @paratrooperslife since your fingers seem a bit broken I thought I’d go ahead and take time out of my life to provide you with resources you seemed unable to find in relation to this post of mine. I had to wait until i got off work because I wanted to go ahead and make this an entire post of its own which is hard to do on mobile.

Lucky you.

You kept saying things to the effect of: “ The standard was set by leftists to define Mass Shootings as any Shooting with 4 or more victims.  So that includes a lot of Gang Violence.  As does the majority of gun homicide. “

First of all, there is no standard.

Your source for that was Everytown and Everytown Research. They are not who can set a standard for what is considered a “mass shooting” and their scope for gun violence is broad, so of course they will include data from any and all gun violence. And Everytown is very transparent about their methodology:

“ The objective of Everytown’s mass shooting database is to track, investigate, and analyze the nature of multi-victim shootings in the U.S. To that end, this annual report includes mass shooting incidents that occur in both public and private spaces, have any number of shooters, and result from a myriad of motives (including but not limited to random acts of violence, domestic or family violence, incidents connected to terrorist activity, and group violence) “

Same for GVA, Gun Violence Archive. 

“GVA is not, by design an advocacy group. The mission of GVA is to document incidents of gun violence and gun crime nationally to provide independent, verified data to those who need to use it in their research, advocacy or writing.“

They are also transparent in their inclusion of gang/drug related violence in their database. For example, when you select “view incident” you can read details of the report like this one that explicitly says under characteristics “gang involvement”.

In fact there is no one definition for what is considered a “mass shooting”.

Even Congress has their own definition which is also very broad and likely one of the lowest standards. I reckon that was intentional as the bill was made in order to allow them better access to provide support to local authorities in response to gun violence.

You also said “ Looking at Actual statistics by the FBI disproves Everytown's claims.“ Well, I never referenced Everytown, that was you. But let’s play along, shall we? What does the FBI have to say about these shootings?

The FBI defines the particular type of shooters I was talking about as “active shooters”. In studies of these particular cases they do not include gang/drug violence:

"Specifically, shootings that resulted from gang and drug violence - pervasive, long-tracked, criminal acts that could also affect the public - were not included in this study. In addition, other gun-related shootings were not included when those incidents appreared generally not to have put others in peril (e.g. the accidental discharge ofa firearm ina  school building or a person who chose to publicly commit suicide in a parking lot)." pg 5,

"The methodology articulated in the 2000-2013 study was applied to the 2018 incidents to ensure consistency. Excluded from this report are gang- and drug-related shootings and gun-related incidents that appeared not to have put other people in peril" pg 2).

This is in part because drug/gang related shootings are more “trackable” if you will in that authorities are able to track gang/drug activity much moreso than they could track something random as an active shooter. FBI does not seem to list any race in their studies of these shootings, I imagine because there may be murky legal waters for them that they want to steer clear of and is not a focus of theirs.

A commonly cited source has been Mother Jones on-going study  of 1986-2019 which, also, does not include gang/drug shootings.

“ We exclude shootings stemming from more conventionally motivated crimes such as armed robbery or gang violence. “

Chronic miscategorization will result in false conclusions. It's like if you were a weather analyst reviewing natural disasters and you categorized tornadoes with hurricanes, two notably and categorically different storm systems, based on the fact they both include high winds.

Stats you would gleam from that methodology would lead you to false conclusions about several things such as location and frequency of these storms, and would also confuse information regarding predictability. Hurricanes and more foreseeable than tornadoes, so to assume they could be treated equally is faulty methodology that would lead to exponentially faulty conclusions.

That is what happens when you try to categorize gang/drug-related violence in with these other mass shootings. Drug/gang related is much easier to track and professionals could even likely predict what areas are more likely inclined to experience shootings related to gang/drug violence. Where as the mass shootings not related to other crimes are not predictable in the same way if at all.

Back to MJ’s study, they have listed race where it was included in the sources they found (news reports primarily) and you can sort the list yourself on the document. The numbers come out as such. Out of 116 cases listed in their particular study, they found:

66 White

18 Black

10 Latino

8 Asian

3 Native

and 10 uncategorized.

Even if you added those last 10 to any other of the identities it would not come close to the tally for whites. Over half of the cases are white.

Another source researching this topic is Grant Duwe, who does actually contest Mother Jones’ report claiming their numbers are actually lower than what he’s come up with in his research. In an interview with Politifact he states:

"There have been at least 184 mass public shootings in the U.S. since 1900, including the Las Vegas attack," Duwe said. "Among these mass public shooters, non-Hispanic whites make up 63 percent, which is close to what we see for the U.S. population in general. So, the Mother Jones data actually underreport the extent to which whites are involved as mass public shooters."

“ Duwe defines "mass public shooting" as an incident that occurs in the absence of other criminal activity, in which a gun was used to kill four or more victims at a public location within a 24-hour period. “ So clearly Duwe also excludes gang/drug shootings from his research. I’m keen to his definition when honing in on this particular phenomenon.

Now listen.

I’m not saying this as a RA RA LETS GIT THEM WHITE BOYS AND THEIR BOOMBOOM STICKS. I’m saying this because turning a blind eye to significant trends in data is turning a blind eye to an important factor to take into account when coming to conclusions or seeking solutions. I’ve studied research analysis myself and written a research proposal (for practice, didn’t get to carry out the research) in graduate school, so I’m not talking out of my other end here. This is quantitative research.

You said: “ I'm trying to get you to approach this issue from a point of fact and reason. “

These are the facts. This is the research. These are the sources. It’s all at your finger tips. Just gotta read it yourself.

I brought up Stochastic Terrorism, which you shrugged off because I linked wiki. Just to note, there is this real nifty part of wiki at the very bottom labeled “References” where you can take your little pointer and clicky on the references, such as this one! WOW!

Regardless, here is another link: Stochastic Terrorism

“Terrorism experts, security analysts, and political observers have been increasingly using the term stochastic terrorism in the late 2010s, especially in terms of how rhetoric from political and religious leaders inspires random extremists, typically young men considered to be radicalized by ISIS or white supremacist groups.“

In any case, even if cats were the most common active shooter, I would still hold to the sentiment of my original post:

Can we control the regulation, distribution, and banning of guns?: Yes

“ Do you want to stay ignorant? “ you asked, to which i reply

I’ve never been, how’s the weather there?

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Deliverable No. 6

The American Association of Family Physicians defines gun violence as "homicide, violent crime, attempted suicide, suicide, and unintentional death and injury." (AAFP) This includes gang violence, and mass homicides, like the ones we sometimes see in American schools.

There is some disagreement on how gun violence should best be combatted, according to industry members. The traditional way of going about things has been to focus on the individual, their means of attaining their firearm, and why they might do what they end up doing. This is not dissimilar to any traditional crime like vandalism, robbery or anything else. However, the people at AAFP think it should be treated as an issue of public health. To them, that means a multi-pronged attack on its root causes, frequently being mental health issues, lax gun control and problems with access in relation to getting help for mental health and drug related issues.

Anthony Braga, director of the Northeastern school of criminology believes that the answer isn't in finding out root causes, but instead focusing on repeat offenders. He states that "today's offenders are tomorrow's victims'' and that there is a "high overlap between gun violence offenders and victims". This is definitely a more person-to-person definition and it does take some blame off of some society-based structures in explaining how and why people participate in and fall victim to gun violence. Braga also offers a bit of nuance on how police investigations are put on; in relation to gang violence, areas are usually divided into areas of gang influence and into places where there is also evidence of drug-related activity. He also says that steep penalties for gang related activities can help to curb gun violence in communities that are affected by it. This, to me, is an area where they diverge. Instead of focusing on root causes and helping people before they ever see the option of gangs as an option, the idea is to punish them after they have made a choice to join the gang. I actually think that, quite similarly to how we deal with drugs in the state of Oregon, a therapeutic, non-jail-oriented solution may be beneficial in this sense. Gang violence is, in my view, a point of desperation that is not solved by punishing it after the fact. I think that the people of AAFP agree with me on this. While it is important to punish and acknowledge an act that causes someone to lose their life, which is gun violence in this circumstance, it may be better to focus on mentorship and community-service initiatives at the outset so that people never get to the point where they consider that option. Gun violence unrelated to gangs is something that is not explored in this paper. This is something that I view as a missed opportunity: there have been a number of people who have engaged in acts of extreme violence unrelated to gang membership and this was largely because there were mental health issues present in the person who committed the act.

Works cited

Braga, A. A. (2004). Permanent.fdlp.gov. www.cops.fdlp.usdoj.gov. Retrieved November 28, 2021, from https://permanent.fdlp.gov/lps73071/open.pdf.

Gun violence, prevention of (position paper). AAFP Home. (2019, December 12). Retrieved November 28, 2021, from https://www.aafp.org/about/policies/all/gun-violence.html.

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Things to take into consideration in a gun safe

Secure safety can be affected by factors such as the size of the safe, lock type, and type of steel gauge. You will also want to consider what kind of firearms you store and how quickly you will need to access them. Take into account your current collection of weapons and what you can buy in the future as you weigh which safety is best suited for you.

   Different types of safes for different types of weapons are long gun safes, pistol safes, and gun safes for long guns and handguns, so take stock of what guns you currently own and then assess the size of the Best Gun Safes.

   The Dimension

   You should buy a safe weapon that's bigger than your current collection if you're considering getting more weapons in the future. If you're looking to travel with a safe, something relatively small and unspecified is something you're going to want, so choose from some of the best gun safes. You can buy stack-on safes, but security experts recommend having a single large safe with a reliable locking mechanism.

   Steel gauge

   The more solid the steel is, the better it will protect your firearms. 10-gauge steel is best suited to home security safeguards, according to expert opinion, but it will also be reliably durable for anywhere between 9 and 14 gauges. The vault door of a safe will often have a thicker steel gauge than the sides or back.

   Lock, access, and the source of power

   There are three distinct kinds of locking mechanisms: biometric, electronic, and dial. The biometric fingerprint scanner will provide quick access to a firearm, while electronic and dial locks give slower access. For biometric and electronic locks, batteries or an electronic power source are required, but a dial lock doesn't.

   The Fire protection rating

   Most of the weapons are made of steel, which has a melting point of 2,500 ° F. While the average temperature of most house fires is 1,200 °F, that doesn't mean you should skimp on fire protection. If you're looking to buy a safe for your home, make sure it has a fire rating that lasts between 30 and 120 minutes.

   Choices for storage

   Check if you buy a giant safe to see what storage capabilities it has. Most multi-gun safes are fitted with door storage and shelving to keep your tiny and large guns organized.

   Dos and don'ts of possessing a gun safe

 Ownership of guns can be complex, but gun-safe ownership does not have to be. We asked about the dos and don'ts of having some of the Best gun safe from experienced gun owners and security experts.

 Get insurance for your gun that is safe for homeowners.

 A safe is an investment in and of itself, whether you own a small gun safe or a large one, so make sure you notify your insurance providers that you have purchased a gun safe. Get protection for your protection measures.

 Consider a dehumidifier for your gun safe.

 Humidity can destroy a firearm, so look at buying a dehumidifier to ensure that your guns remain in pristine condition.

 Keep your gun safe organized.

 Ultimately, disorganized firearms safeguards are dangerous and can be a safety hazard. Keep your security well organized to avoid any confusion or accidents by using the storage space provided.

 Don't leave your safe in plain sight.

 Install it in an office, spare bedroom, or basement rather than safely store a firearm in the living or dining room. This makes sure that your safety is not on display and limits other people's access to it.

 Don't leave the safe's door open.

 It can cause a severe accident to leave the safe unattended and the door open. Be sure to close and lock the door for the sake of security.

 Don't leave tools near the safe.

 Leaving nearby instruments can provide someone with the means to gain access to your guns. Take extra precautions for safety and keep instruments far away.

 Don't store powder or ammunition in the same safe as your guns.

 Doing so can create a ticking time bomb. Never store the powder in a safe. Other gun owners and rifle experts recommend that a smaller safe be explicitly purchased for ammunition storage.

   Statistics on having pistols at home

 Statistically, it is more dangerous for you and your family to have a gun in your home, particularly if you have young kids or teens. A 2014 review in the Annals of Internal Medicine found that even when appropriately stored, having a firearm at home doubles your risk of becoming a victim of homicide and triples the risk of suicide.

 Children are particularly at risk of gun violence in their homes because most gun owners do not secure their weapons. A 2015 study in the Journal of Urban Health estimated that 4.6 million children in America live in homes with unsecured weapons.4 Experts agree that adequately securing and storing weapons can effectively deal with suicide incidents, mass shootings, and unintentional shootings among children and adolescents. Parents who own guns should take the extra precaution to research the best gun safes or car gun safes to reduce their children's risk of gun violence and prevent their guns from falling into the wrong hands.

 More weapons equal to more violence with guns

 The gun violence statistics also apply on a broader scale. The more firearms (whether for self-defense, concealed carry, or recreational use) there are in a nation, the greater the incidence of gun violence. Over the last decade, many studies confirm this conclusion even after controlling for other factors such as income, crime levels, and demographics.

 The fact that David Hemenway, professor of health policy at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, believes contributes to the higher rates of gun-related homicide in America compared to other industrialized nations, is about 5 percent of the world's population, but has 42 percent of the world's private firearms. "A wide range of empirical evidence within the United States shows that more weapons lead to more murder in a community."

 Incidents like robbery and other crimes are more likely to carry the risk of gun violence because of guns' prevalence in the community. Rand Corporation found that even minor disagreements or physical altercations had a higher risk of turning into violent crime in states with "stand your ground" laws. In short, gun ownership does not improve safety, and the prevalence of guns is directly correlated with a significantly higher risk of homicides and suicides associated with guns.

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The North Philly search warrant and PPD's history of raids gone wrong

Updated 3:00 p.m.

Wednesday’s tense shootout that left six police officers injured in North Philadelphia began with an apparently routine search warrant. It was one of hundreds of searches, mostly drug related, that city police execute each month.

Experts say these are risky procedures for both law enforcement and the communities they protect. Philly’s history of warrant-related conflicts stretches back decades — and unlike this week’s standoff, includes both police and civilian fatalities.

For now, it remains unclear whether the North 15th Street warrant was done by the books. Law enforcement experts question whether it could have been prevented with better planning.

District Attorney Larry Krasner, whose office approved the warrant, said the search was connected to an unspecified state drug investigation. His office said it would be “premature” to share more details about the search efforts that ended up with PPD Narcotics Strike Force officers trapped in the house with 36-year-old gunman Maurice Hill, a known drug dealer with a long criminal history.

But Hill was not the intended target of law enforcement on Wednesday.

The Inquirer reports he wasn’t even located in the alleged “stash house” police were legally cleared for search. He was holed up in an adjacent property where officers reportedly saw what they believed to be drugs being transported. After entering the second property to perform a “safety sweep,” they immediately took fire from Hill.

“This is currently under investigation,” said police spokesperson Capt. Sekou Kinebrew.

While the shootout garnered national attention, it was far from the first to devolve into chaos for Philly cops, criminal suspects and the surrounding communities.

Since 2000, at least one Philadelphia law enforcement official was killed during a routine warrant service. In recent years, innocent civilians have also been killed and injured during these typically unpredictable searches.

Experts say unpredictability is always a factor when executing such warrants.

“You don’t know what you’re getting involved with,” said Joe Giacalone, a retired sergeant with the NYPD and professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. “No matter how small or how minor the incident is, people do desperate things when they’re cornered.”

After a group of officers entered the multi-unit rowhome on North 15th Street near Erie Avenue around 4:45 p.m. Wednesday, at least two ended up barricaded in upstairs bedrooms as the gunman opened fire from a lower floor.

Hill then began spraying gunfire out a window into the street as dozens of officers arrived for backup, including a SWAT team and members of the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, better known as ATF.

Law enforcement experts note that warrant units typically assess risk factors before entering any property, and determine whether or not they need assistance from SWAT teams for the raid. In ideal situations, Giacalone said planning ideally involves looking at floor layouts and assigning each officer a space of the house to clear.

Especially considering the nature of the investigation, Giacalone questions whether enough planning happened before officers entered that house Wednesday afternoon.

“When you’re dealing with narcotics, it’s an automatic that there’s lots of guns at the scene,” he said. “I question why they were going in there at 4 in the afternoon.”

Philadelphia police divisions have been undertrained and understaffed when it comes to warrant executions, said two police sources who are not authorized to speak on the record. The city’s elite narcotics team that performed this sweep, however, is regularly trained for these forced entries, they said.

At least one Philadelphia law enforcement official has been killed during a warrant issue in recent years. In 2004, Sergeant Joseph LeClaire, a court officer for the First Judicial District’s now-defunct warrant unit that was separate from the PPD, was shot and killed while serving a warrant to a man for failure to appear in court.

Non-fatal gunfights, while still rare, are far more common than homicides.

A 2010 arrest warrant for a 20-year-old man in Summerdale ended with two officers and the victim shot. The officers’ injuries were non-life threatening, thanks to Kevlar vests. The suspect, wanted on gun charges, was critically injured after a three-hour standoff with police.

But experts also say arrest warrants can put innocent bystanders and relatives of suspects at risk — or even fatally.

In August 2018, one case raised eyebrows around the PPD’s search warrant practices.

Officers were serving a warrant in Germantown that abruptly ended in a shootout with the suspect’s grandfather. Police shot and killed the 59-year-old homeowner in Germantown after he opened fire on them and striking one officer in the jaw.

The man reportedly mistook the SWAT team for home intruders. Police commissioner Ross said the warrant unit knocked three times before trying to enter, calling the grandfather’s death “an all-out tragedy.” No criminal charges were filed in the case.

Source: https://billypenn.com/2019/08/16/the-north-philly-search-warrant-and-ppds-history-of-raids-gone-wrong/

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Mental Illness Plays Only “Limited” Role in Mass Violence: Paper

Mental illness pays an “important but limited role” in mass violence, according to a paper prepared for the National Council for Behavioral Health by the Medical Director  Institute (MDI).

“While there is a modest link between mental illness and violence, there is no basis for the public’s generalized fear of people with mental illness,” said the paper, which summed up a recent panel of experts on mass violence convened by the MDI.

“Having a psychiatric diagnosis is neither necessary nor sufficient as a risk factor for committing an act of mass violence.”

The paper noted that mass violence is “rare,” and has accounted for less than two-tenths of one percent of homicides in the U.S. between 2000 and 2016, even though the U.S. stands out among other advanced countries because of the frequent use of guns by violence perpetrators.

Efforts to tie such incidents to mental illness are understandable but misleading, the paper said.

“Incidents of mass violence — especially those that appear to be senseless, random acts directed at strangers in public places — are so terrifying and traumatic that the community responds defensively and demands an explanation,” said the paper.

“After such events, political leaders often invoke mental illness as the reason for mass violence, a narrative that resonates with the widespread public belief that mentally ill individuals in general pose a danger to others.

“Since it is difficult to imagine that a mentally healthy person would deliberately kill multiple strangers, it is commonly assumed that all perpetrators of mass violence must be mentally ill.”

To the extent that mental health issues play any role in shootings, the best way to address such issues is through a “public health model of prevention,” the paper said.

The model includes three components:

A public education campaign to identify people of concern;

Measures to assess and intervene with people with specified warnings signs, who have access to weapons capable of inflicting mass casualties;

Measures to “contain, assess and intervene” with people who have past histories of threatened or actual significant violence.

Addressing mass violence requires a multi-pronged strategy in which mental health counseling only plays a part, said the paper.

According to speakers at the panel, perpetrators of mass violence are mostly male, who often feel victimized, or hold resentments related to school, work, or interpersonal relationships.

According to the paper, proper threat assessment in which authorities identify persons on the “pathway to violence” is a key first step.

Multi-disciplinary groups, including primary care providers, behavioral health providers, law enforcement, and courts, need to collaborate to identify and manage threats, the paper said.

The panelists warned that some of the immediate reactions to mass violence incidents like school shootings are counter-productive and result in “ill-considered policy decisions.”

“One example is the use of zero-tolerance policies in schools,” the paper said.

“The result is that students are suspended for a variety of minor misbehaviors, sometimes unnecessarily, potentially creating isolation and resentment that can lead to more and more serious, problematic behaviors.”

Similarly “excessive security measures,” such as bulletproof building entrances, electronic door locks, and school-shooter drills, can be “psychologically traumatizing.”

“Though some safety drills are warranted, those that evoke fear and create trauma do more harm than good,” the paper said.

The 20-person panel, which was commissioned in 2015, reported its findings this month.

The National Council for Behavioral Health is the largest organization of mental health and addiction treatment programs in the U.S.

Read the full paper here.

Mental Illness Plays Only “Limited” Role in Mass Violence: Paper syndicated from https://immigrationattorneyto.wordpress.com/

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10 Famous Celebs Who Have Committed Murder

Celebs, they’re truly just like the rest of us. They eat, drink, and oh, sometimes they kill people. Most times it’s a car accident, and every once in a while, it’s a deliberate murder. Here are 10 celebs who have killed people:

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1. Sid Vicious

In 1978, Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious and his girlfriend Nancy Spungen epitomized the sex, drugs, and rock and roll lifestyle. Then, on the night of October 11, 1978, Spungen was found dead, stabbed in stomach.

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Vicious claimed at first that he’d found her that way, but he later admitted to stabbing her in the stomach. He was charged with murder, but he never stood trial, however. He died of a drug overdose while out on bail.

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2. Matthew Broderick

Can you see innocent-faced Matthew Broderick as a killer? Neither can we, but the facts are that the one-time Ferris Bueller star killed a pair of people in 1987.

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Both Broderick and his girlfriend at the time, Jennifer Gray, were vacationing in Ireland when he mistakenly drove onto the wrong side of the road and smashed into an incoming car. The car’s driver and passenger. Anna Gallagher, 28, and her mother, Margaret Doherty, 63, were pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital.

Broderick was initially charged with causing death by dangerous driving and faced up to five years in prison, but was eventually convicted of careless driving and fined $175

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3. Venus Williams

Another star that had a fatal accident was tennis icon Venus Williams. In June 2017, Williams was in Palm Beach, Florida, driving her Toyota Sequoia SUV when another car crashed into hers at an intersection.

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The car’s driver, Linda Barson, survived, but her passenger, her 78-year-old husband, Jerome Barson, later died at the ICU. Williams was initially suspected of turning into the intersection without right of way, but was later cleared of any wrongdoing after authorities obtained a surveillance video that showed she wasn’t at fault.

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4. Brandy

Former pop princess Brandy Norwood was part of a multi-car collision that left a mother of two dead and her children injured.  On December  30, 2006,  Norwood lost control of her Land Rover on the 405 freeway in Los Angeles when a nearby car swerved into hers.

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She slammed into a Toyota Corolla driven by Awatef Aboudihaj, a 38-year-old wife and mother who later died. Aboudihaj’s two children, who were also in the car, had minor injuries and made a full recovery. Brandy was reportedly devastated by her part in the accident.

She eventually reached a settlement with Aboudihaj’s widower, which wasn’t made public.

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5. Don King

Legendary fight promoter Don King killed not one, but two men. The first was an accident, King killed a man trying to break into his place of business. In 1954, King shot Hillary Brown in the back when the man tried to break into one of his gambling houses. The incident was deemed a justifiable homicide.

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The next death, however, was not so innocent. King stomped his employee Sam Garrett to death. Why? Because Garrett owed him $600. King was convicted of second-degree murder, but the judge lowered his conviction to non-negligent manslaughter, which meant King received only four years prison for his violent crime.

To make matters worse, Cleveland named the street where King killed Garrett Don King Way.

Only in America.

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6. Caitlyn Jenner

Caityln Jenner has been everywhere recently, ever since she came out as being transgender. Not all of her attention has been positive, however. In February 2015, Jenner was involved in a fatal multiple-vehicle collision.

She rear-ended a car on the Pacific Coast Highway in California, slamming it into traffic, where it was then bulldozed by an incoming car.

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The other car’s driver, Kim Howe, an animal rights activist and actress, was killed, and seven other people gravely injured. Devastated, Jenner released a statement saying,

My heartfelt and deepest sympathies go out to the family and loved ones, and to all of those who were involved or injured in this terrible accident. It is a devastating tragedy, and I cannot pretend to imagine what this family is going through at this time. I am praying for them. I will continue to cooperate in every way possible.

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7. Salman Khan

Bollywood actor Salman Khan is one of the biggest stars in the world, although he is a virtual unknown in the United States. He’s also killed people.

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In 2002, he drove his car into a group of people sleeping in front of a bakery, killing one person and injuring three others. Khan was reportedly under the influence of alcohol. 13 years after the crime, he was finally convicted of culpable homicide and sentenced to five years in jail.

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8. Snoop Dogg

We all know Snoop is a master of the rap and the cooking game, but did you know he was also once on trial for murder?

Snoop and his bodyguard McKinley Lee were charged with of conspiracy to commit assault in the case of the August 1993 death of Philip Woldemariam.

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On October 25, 1993, Snoop and Lee went to the Woodbine Park section of L.A. to talk to a man who’d had an earlier confrontation with a friend of Snoop’s.  Woldemariam, 20, an Ethiopian immigrant, reached for his gun as he approached Snoop’s car. Lee fired two shots at him and then fled the scene with Snoop.

Woldemariam later died.

Johnny Cochran tried the case and Snoop was cleared of all charges, although he spent months on house arrest.

Snoop credits the case with forcing him to change his ways.

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9. Aaron Hernandez

On June 17, 2013, Odin Lloyd, a linebacker for a New England Football League (NEFL) semi-professional team called the Boston Bandits was found shot to death in  North Attleborough, Massachusetts.

Suspicion soon fell on Aaron Hernandez, a professional football player who had accused Lloyd of breaking his trust.

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According to First Assistant District Attorney Bill McCauley Hernandez “drove the victim to the remote spot, and then he orchestrated his execution.”

Hernandez  was found guilty of first degree and sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole, but was later acquitted. He committed suicide in 2017, and was found to have severe CTE.

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10. OJ Simpson

One of the most famous celebrity murders and the subject of numerous documentaries, films and other projects was the murder of Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman, presumably by her husband, football hero OJ Simpson.

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On June 12, 1994, Nicole and Goldman were discovered stabbed to death outside Nicole’s condo in Brentwood, a posh area of Los Angeles. Simpson was a person of interest and led police on a low-speed pursuit in a white Ford Bronco SUV. The trial was one of the most sensational in American history.

Simpson was represented by Johnny Cochran and acquitted of the murder charges, although he later went to prison on an unrelated armed robbery and kidnapping charge.

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Pennsylvania Governor Wolf, Pennsylvania Legislative Black Caucus Take Action to Reduce Gun Violence

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Pennsylvania Governor Wolf, Pennsylvania Legislative Black Caucus Take Action to Reduce Gun Violence

Harrisburg, PA – In response to community concerns about the gun violence epidemic, Governor Tom Wolf, Representative Jordan Harris, and other members of the Pennsylvania Legislative Black Caucus today announced a new $1.5 million Gun Violence Reduction Initiative and commended the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency (PCCD) for the recent release of $48 million in grants to organizations serving crime victims across Pennsylvania.

On March 2, Governor Wolf and Rep. Harris held a listening session to hear directly from the community about how gun violence is impacting Philadelphia.  That meeting led the governor to create the Gun Violence Reduction Initiative, which will offer competitive grants to municipalities for evidence-based programs proven to reduce gun violence.

“After hearing from this community about the real-world dangers of gun violence, I’m proud to return and deliver funds to help stem the tide of violence,” said Governor Wolf.  “We must continue to tackle this crisis head-on, and these new grants are an important step toward achieving that goal.”

PCCD will accept applications for the Gun Violence Reduction Initiative beginning yesterday at www.pccd.pa.gov.  Awarding of the competitive grants will start in early July.

“The governor has shown tremendous fortitude by telling the world that the issue of gun violence is more than a problem, but an epidemic,” said Rep. Jordan Harris.  “This is the first step in a multi-tiered process, and this initial investment is an important start.  I look forward to our continued work with our governor to ensure that the epidemic of illegal gun violence gets the necessary attention it deserves, both through resources and awareness.”

“I would like to thank Governor Wolf for recognizing gun violence as a major problem in Pennsylvania,” said Senator Anthony Williams.  “The creation of the Gun Violence Reduction Initiative signals to our communities that we are ready to fight gun violence head-on, that it is a priority, and that we are going to find the tools to stop it.”

“Gun violence is a public health crisis we have to address beyond just banning weapons,” said Senator Vince Hughes.  “We have to examine the root causes and take additional steps to curb gun violence in our communities and across our state.  I hope to continue to work with Gov. Wolf and fellow legislators to achieve this important safety goal.”

The governor also announced that PCCD recently awarded $48 million in competitive grants using federal Victims of Crime Act funds to programs across the commonwealth that provide direct services to victims of crime.

In Philadelphia, $4.1 million was awarded among seven programs to specifically address victims of gun violence and violent crime, including:

Temple University Hospital, $1,053,811 to create a crisis intervention team with several community partners to help adult crime victims and their families.

Mothers in Charge, $670,313 for assistance to underserved survivors of homicide in Philadelphia, with an emphasis on neighborhoods with the highest rates of violent crime.

Anti-Violence Partnership of Philadelphia, $1,009,178 to create a survivor-focused network to provide crisis response services to family members of homicide victims.

Every Murder is Real, Philadelphia, $420,156 to expand peer support services for families of homicide victims.

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, $352,910 to provide evidence-based trauma therapy for young victims of violent crime.

Children’s Crisis Treatment Center, $259,556 for coordination of care to fill the gaps in support for children and their families in recovering from traumatic crimes.

Drexel University, $393,358 for the Healing Hurt People Program to serve victims between age 18 and 30 who are victims of violent crime.

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SOURCE: news provided by GOVERNOR.PA.GOV on May 8, 2018

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When Progressives Exploit School Shootings

I believe the children are the future. Indoctrinate them with neo-Marxist ideology and let them lead the way.

What if I told you that the conversation about gun control in the United States wasn't about guns? A lot of what we're about to look at is speculative- but to be frank the lines that are being drawn between major political actors are far too interesting to ignore. Why I'm writing this is not because I don't care about the victims of mass shootings or even that I'm being paid to do so. This is concerning an exploitative progressive ideology that has thrust kids involved in a mass shooting to the spear-tip of their agenda. What I contend that the following evidence shows is a calculated and cynical political move that has been planned in advance for these exact circumstances.

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This hypothetical mobilization playbook requires the tacit support of the media to keep the focus on the activism following the Florida Parkland shooting and away from the victims. Can you remember the names of those 17 victims? Anderson Cooper says that he does.

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This was the 15th of February, 2018. It is important to remember the people that have died not only for the tragic waste of life that set these wheels in motion but to recognize the utter disregard with which their memories have been treated by those with political agendas.

We know from repeated analysis of gun violence that the United States represents a negative correlation between homicides and gun ownership. To frame this entire conversation as being one of righteous children against the gun-lovin' government requires the influence of powerful political actors- applying an evidence-based approach to the causes of gun violence is unpalatable to Progressives. Exploitation of tragedy is nothing new when dealing with these agents of chaos. We can only be surprised at our own surprise at the quickness the machine moves to capitalize on the deaths of the innocent.

Parkland student: "We are not to be bought by the NRA. ... We are the ones who deserve to be kept safe because we were literally shot at" https://t.co/5yk1EL23q4

— CNN (@CNN) February 16, 2018

As reported by the New York Times on Feb. 18th:

“We want this to stop. We need this to stop. We are protecting guns more than people,” said Emma González, 18, one of five core organizers, whose impassioned speech at a rally in Fort Lauderdale on Saturday drew national attention. “We are not trying to take people’s guns away; we are trying to make sure we have gun safety.”

Ms. González, a senior at the school, said the group was inviting elected officials “from any side of the political spectrum” to join the movement. But she said: “We don’t want anybody who is funded by the N.R.A. We want people who are going to be on the right side of history.”

The right side of history. Who do we know that loves being on the right side of history?

Linda Sarsour speaking at DOJ #NRA2DOJ 18 mile end today: "We are on the right side of history and only time will tell." @lsarsour pic.twitter.com/lb63fJZTiw

— john zangas (@johnzangas) July 15, 2017

It would be a surprise at this point in history to discover that the Women's March was not heavily involved in the politicizing of this mass murder. It is no surprise that March For Our Lives (one of the names for the post-Parkland political movements) has popped up with almost identical web design on Squarespace, who host the lion's share of Women's March affiliated online assets. I do hope that Linda got the kids a good deal.

Statement from @womensmarch YOUTH EMPOWER & @schoolwalkoutUS coordinating in solidarity & also pledging support for #marchforourlives. Our present & future are BRIGHT. #Enough #NationalSchoolWalkout pic.twitter.com/W47IVNQoHD

— Linda Sarsour (@lsarsour) February 19, 2018

Sarsour and her allies have had a major rage on for the NRA for some years, particularly thanks to the activism of Tamika Mallory, women's march organizer and blacktivist.

My life-changing call came when I learned that my son’s father had been killed by a gun. I became a single mother and my son lost his father. I’m proud of @WomensMarchY @schoolwalkoutUS @AMarch4OurLives and all the young people leading the way to say #ENOUGH. ✊🏾🖤 https://t.co/hWzvd2KoKO

— Tamika D. Mallory (@TamikaDMallory) February 19, 2018

In a piece last year entitled When Progressives Embrace Hate recent Twitter pile-on victim Bari Weiss noted that both Sarsour and Mallory embrace racists like Louis Farrakhan and the cop killer Assata Shakur.

Ms. Mallory, in addition to applauding Assata Shakur as a feminist emblem, also admires Fidel Castro, who sheltered Ms. Shakur in Cuba. She put up a flurry of posts when Mr. Castro died last year. “R.I.P. Comandante! Your legacy lives on!” she wrote in one. She does not have similar respect for American police officers. “When you throw a brick in a pile of hogs, the one that hollers is the one you hit,” she posted on Nov. 20.

Knowing their admiration for racial supremacists and literal communist dictators, it is not particularly of note that exploitative activists like Sarsour and Mallory are political bottom-feeders who weaponize tragedy for their own ends. What becomes interesting indeed is what is turned up when the paper-and-cash-trail behind these power-players is followed, as Asra Q. Nomani of the New York Times-affiliated site Women in the World did over a year ago.

What she discovered was that key Hillary Clinton financier George Soros;

"[H]as funded, or has close relationships with, at least 56 of the march’s “partners,” including “key partners” Planned Parenthood, which opposes Trump’s anti-abortion policy, and the National Resource Defense Council, which opposes Trump’s environmental policies. The other Soros ties with “Women’s March” organizations include the partisan MoveOn.org (which was fiercely pro-Clinton), the National Action Network (which has a former executive director lauded by Obama senior advisor Valerie Jarrett as “a leader of tomorrow” as a march co-chair and another official as “the head of logistics”). Other Soros grantees who are “partners” in the march are the American Civil Liberties Union, Center for Constitutional Rights, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch."

Particularly illuminating in the context of Nomani's work is the leaked 2007 memo from John Podesta to George Soros and others that set out the framework for the exact behavior we are seeing today from the liberal media and these spontaneous groups like March For Our Lives.

Podesta wrote to Soros that he wanted to:

better utilize these networks to drive the content of politics through a strong echo chamber.

Control the political discourse. So much effort over the past few years has been focused on better coordinating, strengthening, and developing progressive institutions and leaders. Now that this enhanced infrastructure is in place—grassroots organizing; multi-issue advocacy groups; think tanks; youth outreach; faith communities; micro-targeting outfits; the netroots and blogosphere—we need to better utilize these networks to drive the content of politics through a strong “echo chamber” and message delivery system.

This memo was released with a focus on the 2008 election of Barack Obama. I don't like much agreeing with John Podesta about anything, but he saw back in 2007 that the future of America is about demographics. From the memo:

Ensure that demographics is destiny. An "emerging progressive majority" is a realistic possibility in terms of demographics and voting patterns. But it is incomplete in terms of organizing and political work. Women, communities of color and highly educated professionals are core parts of the progressive coalition.

A message delivery system in service of a progressive movement that combines multiple issues into a sledgehammer against the state. Pure Alinsky.

I don't think at the time Podesta could realize that the explosion of social media influence would convert the liberal media into a progressive blogosphere in the service of his agenda. The media are maintaining attention exactly where I would want them to be looking if I were a Linda Sarsour or George Soros. Keep the eyes of America on the crying rainbow nation teenagers reciting the progressive talking points and milk the 24-hour news cycle for all it is worth. Convert this into a publicly funded war-chest to power a Women's March clone -but this time, for the kids.

With 11 years between that memo and now, can anyone deny that his plan worked perfectly? Up until the ruinous election of Donald J. Trump, Podesta was bullet-proof. Despite that defeat at the hands of populism, the plans of Podesta and Soros have continued, not only unabated but financially and ideologically reinvigorated. Re-energized with new blood and new revenue after the rejection of the Obama/Clinton procession of succession resulted in a billionaire boogeyman against whom the troops can be rallied. The neo-Marxist agenda rolls on with even more money than ever before.

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Imagine then, based on what we know now- is it so impossible that an anti-NRA strategist had this playbook ready to roll when the next school shooting happened? Is it too brutally cynical to suspect people of such callous foresight? Recognizing the weakness in the system is the raison d'être of all acolytes of Saul Alinsky; It is how they have effected change for decades. Crack open the seats of institutional power by holding them to impossible standards- the thirteenth rule is in full effect with this Children's Crusade. I have no doubt that the kids involved truly believe in the justness of their cause- but they are a cat's paw, plunging their young hands into the fires of gun debate for no reward but burned flesh.

Teens between 14 and 18 have far better BS detectors, on average, than “adults” 18 and older. Wouldn’t it be great if the voting age were lowered to 16? Just a pipe dream, I know, but . . . #Children’sCrusade?

— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) February 19, 2018

Following these threads backward through time reveal that this moment of what appears to be the investiture of moral right into teenagers is not a spontaneous outcry against gun violence. As we will show in tomorrow's article, the kids who are shooting to fame on the back of a brutal shooting are themselves junior progressive political activists who, willingly or no, are now exploiting the deaths of their classmates to push an agenda that began long before they were born.

Tomorrow we shine a light on the kids who are shooting to fame on the back of a shooting.

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New Study Says Fear of Crime, Danger Drives American Handgun Ownership

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Previous polls found that nearly two-thirds of Americans who own guns say they do so for protection purposes, a far more common response than for recreation or hunting.

But what do these gun owners imagine they need protection from?

A group of research psychologists from the Netherlands and the United States published a study on Thursday examining how fear of specific crimes and a broader sense of general danger contribute to American gun ownership.

The study, which was broken down into different surveys and was published in the journal Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, hopes to mitigate some of these fears driving Americans to own guns.

In the first part of the study, which was conducted with more than 800 men, about half of whom were gun owners, the researchers found that gun owners generally perceive the world as a more dangerous place than non-gun owners. According to the study, these people perceive their risk of being the victim of a specific crime during their lifetime ― such as a mugging, a violent attack or a home invasion ― to be higher than than non-gun owners did.

Handgun owners more likely to say they’d shoot in self-defense

The researchers also found differences among men who owned only handguns and men who owned long guns, such as a shotgun or rifle, which are typically used for hunting and shooting sport. They found that handgun owners who perceived greater threats ― either specific or abstract ― are more likely to say they’d shoot in self-defense. 

(It’s important to note, however, that most of the gun owners surveyed owned more than one weapon.)

“It suggests that a sense of threat can be multi-layered, which may give insight into the nature of fear and what people do to overcome it,” Wolfgang Stroebe, lead study author and visiting professor at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands told HuffPost. 

“Though perhaps it also highlights the challenge of reducing fear in society,” he said.

There’s no connection between gun ownership and risk of attack either, the researchers added. “The people at most risk of homicide victimization are among the least likely to own guns, and guns rarely get used in the very assault scenarios for which they are intended,” the study authors write.

“If handgun ownership for self-protection is not purely about fear of crime but also about a more general sense of danger, it could mean that communications aimed purely at reducing fear of crime will not be enough to change people’s beliefs that they need a gun for self defense,” Stroebe said.

A real-world experiment after the Orlando mass shooting

The researchers happened to have surveyed gun owners about their reasons for ownership in the week leading up to the mass shooting at Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, which killed 49 people and is considered the worst act of terrorism on U.S. soil since the Sept. 11 attacks. 

In the days after the Orlando shooting, the researchers surveyed a different group of gun owners about their reasons for ownership and compared the responses. 

Since there’s typically a spike in background checks for gun sales after a mass shooting, the researchers hypothesized that more gun owners would say protection was their reason for ownership directly after the Orlando attack.

“We expected that such a terrible mass shooting as the one in Orlando would – at least momentarily – increase people’s fear of crime, or their belief that the world is a dangerous place,” Stroebe said.

Instead, the attack hardly changed gun owners’ responses at all. 

“Maybe this means that the spike in FBI background checks after a mass shooting is not motivated by increased concerns about protection and self-defense,” Stroebe said. “Or maybe most gun owners have already incorporated the threat of mass shootings into their belief system.”

And while the primary goal of the research is to serve as a building block for further study, Stroebe does think there’s some practical application. 

“If we want to help people conquer their fears, we have to recognize that a sense of threat can have multiple layers and each layer may have to be addressed separately,” he said.

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Los Angeles County to Help Families of Cop-Shooting Victims

Alicia Alvarez found out that her son was shot to death when she heard from friends and then later on the news, and even then the details weren’t clear.

Her son, 20-year-old Jonathan Cuevas was shot by Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Deputies when he fled from a police stop early in the morning of Oct. 10, 2010. The deputies claimed Cuevas had been reaching for a gun.

Friends and eyewitnesses told a different story. “Something told me in my heart that something was very wrong, because it was totally opposite of what the Sheriff’s homicide [detectives] told us,” Alvarez told a journalist two years later.

Although internal police investigators said the shooting was justified, the family launched a wrongful death lawsuit against the county. In 2013, the family was awarded $875,000.

But the fallout from Cuevas’ death also included concerns raised by the fact that the family had adequate or misleading information.

In the last three years, more than 100 people have died during incidents involving use of force by deputies in the field, or while in the custody of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.

As in the Cuevas case, families of those who died in police custody are often told very little about their loved one’s deaths, and they get little support in the aftermath.

Last week, the County of Los Angeles Board of Supervisors moved to fill this gap with passage of a motion to establish the Family Assistance Program. The program is designed to support families following an in-custody death or fatal use of force.

They heard testimony from several families, WitnessLA reported after the meeting.

Jacob Jackson told the board that his mother found out about her son’s death in 1994 from a message left on her answering machine.

“She asked for help from the police,” he said. “(But) they ignored her,” Jackson said.

Supervisor Hilda Solis described a more recent story about the family of an 18-year-old killed by law enforcement a few days before the meeting, and the county’s subsequent “failure to provide compassionate communication and services to the family.”

“I’ve heard the same things related over and over again from family,” She continued. “And in this case, what we have heard over and over again is that the family heard about the death through a network, and not through county resources, that they were confused and upset by the wait time to go and see their deceased loved one, and that they were deeply concerned about how he was portrayed in the media regarding his death.”

This family “really needed support and follow-up services”–services that Solis said needed to be addressed by county’s Department of Mental Health.

“We were all moved by the stories and testimonies of members of our communities who have lost loved ones,” said Brian K. Williams, Executive Director of the Civilian Oversight Commission (CCOC), in a press statement announcing the plan.

“The creation of the Family Assistance Program illustrates how when we listen to one another, dialogue, and collectively work together, good things can happen. This is a great example of the work that the Commission is capable of.”

Many programs around the country address the needs of crime victims and survivors. New York State, for example, funds the cost of burials for homicide victims. But the Los Angeles program may be the first that caters specifically to families whose loved ones have died in police custody or as a result of police actions.

Los Angeles County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas, co-author of the motion to create the Family Assistance Plan. Photo by Bran Chan, LA County Board of Supervisors

The July 9 motion, authored by board members Mark Ridley-Thomas and Sheila Kuehl, called for the creation of a “…multi-disciplinary Family Assistance Program aimed at improving compassionate communication with and providing trauma-informed support to families who have lost a loved one in an LASD-related incident.”

The program will deploy a multi-disciplinary team “well versed” in the areas of mental health care, trauma-informed support, and financial support (including help with burial services) according to the press statement.

In the statement, Patti Giggans, chair of the L.A. County Civilian Oversight Commission (CCOC), said the program would address “gaps” in services to families stricken by tragedy.

“The multi-disciplinary Family Assistance Program,….will provide grieving families with timely information and a warm hand off to services,” she added.

The Family Assistance Program outline would not have been complete without the valid input from individuals and families that lost their loved ones because of in-custody death or fatal use of force.

This motion also directs the Los Angeles County Director of Mental Health to “hire Family Assistance Advocates (FAAs) to act as the primary liaison for families grieving the loss of their loved one.”

Each FAA in the program will be responsible for communicating timely updates to families about their loved one’s death, helping families navigate the county’s legal process, identifying resources that may be available to them, including funds to assist with burial costs, and providing crisis intervention, stabilization and grief counseling, according to the motion.

The proposed $437,000 budget will earmark funds to hire one clinical psychologist and a psychiatric social worker per FAA unit, as well as provide four clinicians and a service car.

That would help families avoid the challenges faced by the Cuevas family, which was forced to hold car washes to pay for Jonathan’s burial, according to Kim McGill of the Youth Justice Coalition in Los Angeles.

The CCOC committee developed a package of recommendations for the sheriff’s department.

The recommendations included:

Establishment of a multi-disciplinary team able to provide support, resources and transparent communication to families;

Continuous “trauma-informed training” for all Sheriff’s Department personnel who work with family members.

The official CEO report calls for the trauma-informed training to help sheriff’s deputies  gain further insight regarding grief counselling, learn about how to communicate unforeseen news, and learn how each individual may react to receiving devastating details involving their loved ones.

They will also change the training from occurring once every two years to “regular trainings.”

Current California state law does not recognize or treat the family members/survivors of fatal law enforcement uses of force as “victims.”

This means the families aren’t given access the same restitution opportunities as other recognized victims. The CCOC recommends this be changed.

The program will also develop pamphlets along with a website and/or social media page that “explains Sheriff’s Department procedures and protocol related to in-custody deaths and fatal deputy-related uses of force.”

The pamphlet, as well as the online platform, will be specifically created for the family members of those who were involved in fatal uses of force or in-custody deaths. It’s aimed to outline the specific protocols that follow each incident.

Andrea Cipriano is a TCR news intern.

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