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2 weeks ago | 
thetrace.org | Sunny Sone |Victoria Clark
The Trace The scenes emerging from metro Los Angeles, where largely peaceful protests against the Trump administration’s immigration raids continued amid a law enforcement crackdown, bear a striking resemblance to those that took place five years ago, during the nationwide racial justice reckoning that followed the murder of George Floyd. Police deployed “less lethal” crowd control tactics, using tear gas, flash grenades, and rubber bullets against demonstrators.
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2 weeks ago | 
thetrace.org | Victoria Clark |Rita Oceguera
The Trace When Advance Peace was launched in Lansing, Michigan, in 2022, the violence interruption program was met with initial hesitation from police, The Trace’s Josiah Bates reported last week.
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3 weeks ago | 
thetrace.org | Sunny Sone |Victoria Clark |Chip Brownlee
The Trace The Supreme Court’s landmark 2022 ruling in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen upended Second Amendment law by mandating that modern gun restrictions align with historical firearms regulations. Since Bruen, reports The Trace’s Chip Brownlee, judges are not so much arbiters of modern safety as reluctant antiquarians, tasked with finding 18th- or 19th-century parallels for today’s gun laws.
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1 month ago | 
thetrace.org | Victoria Clark |Tatyana Turner |Rita Oceguera
The Trace The breaking news cycle would give most consumers whiplash. In just four weeks, a string of rattling, gun violence-related headlines in local and national publications have shifted the landscape immeasurably. In April, the Trump administration announced plans to pull the financial plug on community violence intervention programs, leaving more than 360 initiatives potentially drained of funds. The Supreme Court declined to settle the question on age restrictions for guns.
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1 month ago | 
thetrace.org | Victoria Clark |Chip Brownlee
The Trace During the COVID-19 pandemic, emergency rooms were overwhelmed — and gunshot victims faced even greater peril than in ordinary times. Though that flashpoint has subsided, and the national conversation around urgent care has faded along with it, new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that hospitals continue to face overwhelming odds in treating shooting victims.
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1 month ago | 
thetrace.org | Victoria Clark |Justin Agrelo
The Trace When Estela Díaz lost her son, Fernando Zadkiel Vega-Díaz, to gun violence, the police did not allow her to touch him because his body was being used as evidence. That experience, she said, was cold and insensitive. At the time, she didn’t know it would help prepare her for the Cook County court system, where seeking justice would force her to relive trauma.
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2 months ago | 
thetrace.org | Victoria Clark |Mensah M. Dean
The Trace Last summer, veteran and Philadelphia-area business owner Maurice Byrd fatally shot his neighbor Stephen Strassburg, who hurled racial slurs at Byrd while moving aggressively toward him. This was apparently not the first time. According to Byrd and several neighbors, Strassburg, who was white, had harassed Byrd for years. The aggression had led Byrd to call the police on his neighbor five times.
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2 months ago | 
thetrace.org | Victoria Clark |Sunny Sone
The Trace Every generation is shaped by the major events of its time. For baby boomers, there was the Civil Rights Movement and the Vietnam War; Gen X saw the Reagan era and the end of the cold war; millennials had the iPhone and the 2008 financial crisis. Gen Z, or people born between 1997 and 2012, has grown up in an exceedingly eventful historical moment. And for them, there’s arguably another factor at play: the proliferation of guns in the United States.
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Mar 19, 2025 | 
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.
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Feb 26, 2025 | 
thetrace.org | Victoria Clark |Jennifer Mascia
The Trace The beginning of Donald Trump’s second presidency marked a dramatic turn in the country’s relationship with Mexico. In an attempt to pressure the nation to restrict illegal migration and drug smuggling along the southern border, Trump threatened to raise tariffs on Mexican imports by 25 percent.
