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There was another mass shooting on Wednesday, this time leaving nine people dead, just one of the latest mass shootings of the 230-plus so far this year, according to a tally maintained by The New York Times.
As The Times reported, “The Gun Violence Archive, which defines a mass shooting as one with four or more people injured or killed, not including the perpetrator, counted more than 600 such shootings in 2020, compared with 417 in 2019.”
We need to recognize the trauma and stress that we as a society have endured because of Covid-19, the collapse of our social structure, the crippling of an economy and the way the racial justice protests have unsettled some people.
Blow: Our collective, violent PTSD
Charles M. Blow, New York Times
May 27, 2021
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Deputies respond to this week’s mass shooting in San Jose, Calif. We must find a way to reckon with the trauma of the last year and violence.Jim Gensheimer /Special to The Chronicle
There was another mass shooting Wednesday, this time leaving nine people dead, just one of the latest mass shootings of the 230-plus this year, according to a tally maintained by the New York Times.
As the Times reported, “The Gun Violence Archive, which defines a mass shooting as one with four or more people injured or killed, not including the perpetrator, counted more than 600 such shootings in 2020, compared with 417 in 2019.”
As New Police Reform Laws Sweep Across the U.S., Some Ask: Are They Enough?
States have passed over 140 police oversight bills since the killing of George Floyd, increasing accountability and overhauling rules on the use of force. But the calls for change continue.
A protest last week after the death of Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black man who was killed by the police in Brooklyn Center, Minn.Credit.Victor J. Blue for The New York Times
April 18, 2021, 12:24 p.m. ET
In February, Illinois enacted a law that rewrote many of the state’s rules of policing, and mandated that officers wear body cameras. In March, New York City moved to make it easier for citizens to sue officers. This month, the Maryland legislature which decades ago became the first to adopt a Law Enforcement Officers’ Bill of Rights became the first to do away with it.