Chris Hacker

Chicago

Investigative Data Reporter at CBS News

Investigative data reporter @CBSNews

Articles

Police Agencies Are Rethinking Policies on Reselling Their Used Guns

1 month ago | thetrace.org | Victoria Clark |Champe Barton |Chris Hacker

The Trace Last year, an investigation by The Trace, CBS News, and Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting found that more than 52,000 former police guns resurfaced in homicides, shootings, robberies, and other crimes between 2006 and 2022. Since then, The Trace’s Champe Barton and CBS News’ Chris Hacker report, over a dozen agencies have pledged to stop reselling their guns or are reconsidering the practice.
More law enforcement agencies stop reselling guns to prevent use in crimes

1 month ago | cbsnews.com | Chris Hacker |Champe Barton

More than a dozen law enforcement agencies have stopped reselling their used guns or pledged to reconsider the practice after an investigation by The Trace, CBS News, and Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting. The investigation, published last year, revealed that more than 52,000 former police guns had resurfaced in robberies, domestic violence incidents, homicides, and other crimes between 2006 and 2022.
ATF urges police to reevaluate reselling used firearms to the public

Jan 8, 2025 | cbsnews.com | Chris Hacker

Federal officials warned police agencies Wednesday about the danger of reselling guns to the public, a widespread practice that a CBS News investigation revealed has led to tens of thousands of former law enforcement weapons being used in crimes — often with fatal consequences. Now, the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is releasing new data about the practice and asking law enforcement agencies to consider that data and reconsider selling their guns.
ATF urges police to reevaluate reselling used firearms

Jan 8, 2025 | msn.com | Chris Hacker

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Fact checking Election Day 2024 claims about voter fraud, ballot counting and more

Nov 5, 2024 | cbsnews.com | Layla Ferris |Chris Hacker |Julia Ingram |Jui Sarwate

Throughout Election Day and night, CBS News' Confirmed team will be fact checking reports of threats around voting today, voter fraud, election hacking, and more as the nation votes and waits to see whether Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump will be the 47th president of the United States. The Confirmed team and CBS News reporters are also providing updates on voting machine errors and problems as they happen. CBS News' full coverage of the election is here.
Majority-Black school districts have far less money to invest in buildings

Aug 13, 2024 | yahoo.com | Chris Hacker |Amy Corral |Stephen Stock |Jose Sanchez |Jose Sánchez |José Sánchez

Cracked walls, mold, sewage backups, even the risk of electric shock. That's what students at Druid Hills High School outside Atlanta faced for years — and they wanted the world to see. Chronic under-investment left school buildings and facilities there in disrepair. The problem got national attention after a video the students posted to social media went viral. In the video, one student shows walls peeling from water damage. Another points to holes in the ceiling.
How we uncovered former police guns that were used in crimes

Aug 13, 2024 | yahoo.com | Chris Hacker

Chris HackerUpdated August 13, 2024 at 9:25 AM·4 min readEvery year, thousands of guns once owned by police departments are used in crimes across the U.S. Many start out as the pistol in a cop's holster, but are later sold through an opaque network of gun dealers, recirculated into the public market and eventually recovered by other law enforcement officers. The federal government knows which departments' guns end up in crime scenes most often.
Renewable energy usage has doubled in the last decade. Hawaii leads the way.

Aug 13, 2024 | yahoo.com | David Schechter |Haley Rush |Chris Hacker

David Schechter, Haley Rush, Chance Horner, Chris HackerUpdated August 13, 2024 at 6:27 AM·2 min readRenewable energy is on the rise. According to the U.S. Energy Information Agency, renewable sources of energy like hydropower, wind and solar will account for 24% of the nation's energy supply in 2023, more than double what it was a decade ago.
New data: Over 100 elementary-aged kids arrested in U.S. schools

Aug 13, 2024 | yahoo.com | Chris Hacker |Aparna Zalani |Stephen Stock

Chris Hacker, Aparna Zalani, Stephen StockUpdated August 13, 2024 at 9:27 AM·2 min readPolice arrested more than 100 children at elementary schools during the 2020-2021 school year, according to newly released data analyzed by CBS News. The Department of Education data showed fewer young children were arrested at school than in previous years.
4 takeaways from our investigation into police agencies selling their guns

Aug 13, 2024 | yahoo.com | John Kelly |Chris Hacker

John Kelly, Chris HackerUpdated August 13, 2024 at 9:25 AM·4 min readAbout nine times a day over two decades, a gun used in a crime has been traced back to its original owner: a law enforcement agency. A joint investigation by CBS News, The Trace, and Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting has found at least 52,000 such incidents and identified more than 140 police agencies that sell or trade in their guns, allowing dealers to then resell them.