Victoria Clark

1 day 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.

2 weeks 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.

1 month 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.

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.

2 months ago | 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.