by #MadisonPauly in #MotherJones:

"For nearly 30 years, federal law has banned people who have domestic-violence restraining orders from possessing guns. It’s a sensible policy reflecting a set of stark statistics: Women whose abusers have access to guns are 5 times more likely to be killed than those whose partners don’t have guns available. About a third of female murder victims are killed by an intimate partner, most of whom use firearms to carry out the violence.

"Then, last February, a conservative federal appeals court in the South chose gun rights over domestic violence survivors’ lives, siding with an alleged abuser who argued that a gun prohibition attached to his restraining order violated the Second Amendment. Now, the Supreme Court has decided to take up the case. On Friday, as it handed down a slew of controversial decisions, the court announced it will hear United States v. Rahimi during its next term, which begins in October."

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/07/federal-law-domestic-violence-gun-restrain-order-scotus/

#DomesticViolence #guns #SecondAmendment #2ndAmendment #SupremeCourt #SCOTUS

by #MadisonPauly in #MotherJones:

"With every 'officer-involved' shooting, every brutalized Black teenager, every unjustified arrest that ends in tragedy, the imperative to find another way becomes more urgent. Today, the abolitionist maxim 'We keep us safe'—embedded in the Panthers’, and now Brooks’, work—is being realized by a growing number of community-driven alternatives to policing. In the San Francisco Bay Area, volunteers of Asian descent have organized community patrols to prevent hate crimes in San Francisco’s Chinatown, while young Black abolitionists agitated successfully for Oakland Public Schools to replace school cops with counselors. Cities from Denver to New York are implementing programs modeled on a long-running Oregon program called CAHOOTS, which diverts low-level 911 calls away from police, instead dispatching counselors and medics. APTP now holds bimonthly calls with community groups and government officials pursuing similar initiatives across the country."

https://www.motherjones.com/crime-justice/2021/10/police-killing-black-shooting-911-alternative-oakland/

#police #PoliceBrutality #LawEnforcement #CommunityPolicing #CAHOOTS