Public Safety
Covering topics such as corrections, criminal justice, emergency management, gun control and police/fire/EMS.
Alabama’s central data repository enables coordinated action across health, law enforcement and governmental agencies.
A majority of departments rely on volunteer help but the number of people willing to devote time has dropped substantially over the past decade.
There are places we shouldn’t be living. With federal disaster aid uncertain, states and localities should build voluntary buyout programs to relocate residents from floodplains.
Trump's decision to deploy the National Guard against anti-deportation protesters is sadly familiar after other attacks on the First Amendment.
Over the past two years, the city has reduced the average wait time by two-thirds. Ninety percent of calls are answered within 20 seconds.
The office, established just six months ago, had asked for a 40 percent funding increase but came away with its budget cut by 20 percent.
Because reporting practices and requirements vary so much, extreme weather’s true damage cost is often a mystery. There are several ways to get better numbers.
The one-time grant funding let cities and counties demonstrate new ideas and expand existing efforts to curb gun violence. When the ARPA sunsets, some efforts may scale down, but local governments have been planning to maintain the bulk of the work.
Older, sick prisoners cost far more to incarcerate. Since they pose little or no risk to public safety, states should ease the path to medical parole.
They’re tearing through communities just about everywhere between the Rockies and the Appalachians. The U.S. has seen a broad shift in tornadoes to the east, to earlier in the year and clustered into larger outbreaks.
Overloaded with cases, public defenders often cannot give enough time to each client, and defendants may face long waits to get an attorney.
The governor is calling for closure of an unspecified prison as a cost-saving measure. The state’s inmate population is down 45 percent from its peak in 2006.
Police departments use these techniques to help determine where they should concentrate their resources. Artificial intelligence is raising new questions of privacy and transparency.
During the pandemic, California released about 15,000 prisoners early. About a third ended up back in prison by the start of this year.
Washington State joins Virginia, D.C. and Georgia in requiring the installation of speed-limiting devices on cars belonging to drivers convicted of excessive speeding.
Corrections work shouldn’t be a stressed-out, dead-end job. There are promising ideas for turning it into a mission-driven profession.
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