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Editor at The Trace focused on creating a more inclusive model for covering gun violence at the local level, and some other things. Before that (and always, in a sense): the education beat. After hours: theater, music, books, art, Chaucer.
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“No, it's still the same. Because the same thing is still going to happen. It's normal.” Despite a stark drop in gun violence in Philadelphia, many residents don’t feel any safer. Some say their sense of security depends on where they are in the city.

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“Where’s the level of due care for people who are in dire, traumatic situations?” Chicagoans often experience delayed responses from emergency services. To avoid the risk of slow transport, many gunshot victims are getting rides from friends or driving themselves to a nearby hospital.

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Detroit Ended 2024 with the Lowest Number of Homicides Since 1965. Now It May Lose a Crucial Program. www.thetrace.org/2025/02/detr... @josiahbates.bsky.social @thetrace.org

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President Trump has signed an executive order directing AG Pam Bondi to “review” much of the Biden administration’s actions on guns. That review will include ATF regulations and the reports of the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

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Coolers Are Banned Near This Year’s Super Bowl. Guns? They’re OK www.thetrace.org/2025/02/supe... @jenmascia.bsky.social @thetrace.org

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"Next time, do it on Day One. Do it bigger. Do it better, right? This isn’t the final form of what an office can be. This is just version one. And version two is yet to come."

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The Legacy of the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention www.thetrace.org/2025/02/whit... @bychipbrownlee.com @thetrace.org

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How Chicago Drill Artists Hacked the Conversation about Gun Violence www.thetrace.org/2025/01/dril... @thetrace.org with @thetriibe.com

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The Ghost Gun Market’s Vanishing Act www.thetrace.org/2025/01/ghos... from @thetrace.org

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🧵 In “A Decade of American Gun Violence,” our series based on Gun Violence Archive data, we found a hidden toll of shootings in rural areas, near schools, and on the road. Here are some of the biggest takeaways:

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"Grief deferred is common" “The circumstance is the homicide, but the lifelong work is how do you try to recover & heal from that traumatic event — & that is a forever thing.” ~ Michelle Kerr-Spry, director of programs for Mothers in Charge, Philadelphia (reporting from Olga Pierce at The Trace)

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Important analysis from @thetrace.org's Olga Pierce: How Many People Were Killed by the Pandemic Surge in Shootings? www.thetrace.org/2025/01/gun-...

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This has been another devastating 24 hours in Los Angeles, so I’m grateful @zeitchik.bsky.social was able to cogently connect the dots. I’m worried that conspiracy theories about the LA fires have spread faster than the truth, and here, he unpacks the why. www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general...

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@rgauth999.bsky.social is at the #EatonFire www.latimes.com/california/s...

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By the way, I’m in a safe zone. This is what “safe” looks like now. I’m ok. LA is really, really not. 💔

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Grateful to all the reporters who are grinding their way through this crisis, often in dangerous conditions. Last night, some people I know weren't yet aware that they were in evacuation zones. Local reporting is always crucial. Even more so in this moment.

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A quarter century ago, the massacre at Columbine High School launched America into a new era — one of frequent school shooting drills, anxiety at large events, and guns making appearances in even the most mundane places. Here's how America has changed since Columbine.

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Crimes involving ghost guns seem to have abated across much of the U.S., and the most prolific maker of the kits used to build the untraceable weapons closed its doors this year. Still, the guns continue to make headlines.

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When Pregnancy Makes You a Target www.thetrace.org/2024/12/preg... Powerful read from @fairrionam.bsky.social for @thetrace.org with @19thnews.bsky.social

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🧵 The Supreme Court’s 2022 Bruen ruling was the biggest gun rights decision in a generation, transforming how lower courts evaluate the constitutionality of gun laws. The Trace compiled a database of post-Bruen legal challenges to track the ruling’s sweeping ramifications.

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According to my analysis for @thetrace.org dozens of cities have installed ShotSpotter that average fewer than a shooting a month and are located in states with strong gun laws. So why do they need it? Experts and local officials weigh in:

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When Corniki Bornds’ son, Fontaine, was killed, she searched for groups to help her process his death. There weren’t any in her neighborhood, so she had to join one elsewhere. After seeing the benefits of communal grieving, she created her own group for her community.

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New York City may soon require gun stores to post graphic warnings about their products. The bill, under consideration at City Council, was inspired by foreign cigarette packaging, which includes images of rotting teeth, gums, and cancer-ridden lungs.

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When Estela Diaz went to identify her son’s body, she was told she could not touch him. He had been killed in a drive-by shooting, and now, by law, he was “a piece of evidence.” The system kept her from saying her last goodbye.

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If you care about gun violence and how to reduce it, read these stories of impacted people. Because of my background as a public defender, my bias is to start from the personal and pull back to broader questions rather than starting from impersonal community level data. Either way, do more.

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Violence prevention efforts and mainstream narratives about the gun crisis tend to center parent-child relationships. But in recent years, professionals have started to recognize a longstanding need: Losing a sibling brings about a unique set of consequences.

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If you're looking for a #longread, please consider Mensah Dean's Roots and Realities series @thetrace.org: He wants to people to see that "normalizing higher-than-average gun violence in the Black community is an abnormal response, one that needs to be challenged." www.thetrace.org/projects/gun...

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The daily news cycle’s recounting of stories about gun violence is often minimal and dispassionate. In a new essay collection, survivors in Chicago go from the subjects of crime coverage to the writers, and they tell the story of gun violence in the city in a different manner.

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Gun violence and poverty are inextricably linked — and in no big city is that connection as acute as it is in Philadelphia, where Black citizens are at the highest risk of experiencing both.

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In Philadelphia and elsewhere, Black lives are the most in peril from shootings. Mensah M. Dean’s new series goes beyond the headlines to put the violence in proper historic context.

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Even as Philadelphia experiences a record drop in gun violence, Black people are dying from it at rates that far exceed those of other Philadelphians. It’s the legacy of a chain of harms that has wounded Philadelphia’s Black community for centuries. Published with @inquirer.com

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For the last year plus, @thetrace.org's Mensah M. Dean has put his decades of experience and expertise toward exploring a difficult question: Why does the gun violence crisis affect Black Americans at disproportionate rates? 🧵

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Photographer Vincent Alban has followed Titiana Bogar-Curry, a mother who lost her teenage sons to separate shootings, for the past two years. Her story highlights the cycle of gun violence in Rochester, New York. Find the full photo essay here: thetr.ac/aHpMH

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Biden Promised Gun Reform. Did He Deliver? www.thetrace.org/2024/11/bide... @thetrace.org

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To Battle the Bullet, Baltimore Goes After the Bottle www.thetrace.org/2024/11/balt... @tedalcorn.bsky.social for @thetrace.org

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Facing Another Trump Presidency, Philadelphia Vows to Maintain Momentum Against Gun Violence www.thetrace.org/2024/11/phil... by Mensah M. Dean for @thetrace.org

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One structural quirk of the federal government that I'm thinking about today: HHS oversees Head Start, in addition to a bevy of other early childhood and family-related programs.

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Keep up with the reporters and editors behind our gun violence reporting — follow our starter pack!

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Some good news from Mensah M. Dean for @thetrace.org: Philadelphia Shootings Have Dropped to Pre-Pandemic Levels www.thetrace.org/2024/11/phil...

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So bizarre that this isn't considered a national crisis, especially by politicians on the left. We're sleepwalking into an environment where like 80% of available information is right-wing propaganda and the rest is behind a paywall.

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