Sentences with phrase «high gun crime»

There are very tough anti-gun laws in some cities and jurisdictions, and those cities and jurisdictions also have high gun crime rates.

Chicago has total gun bans and the highest gun crime rates in the country.

Not exact matches

High profile shootings such as the one in Orlando, Florida amplify fears of crime, leading some people to buy guns.

The lawsuit has high stakes for both gun companies and gun - control advocates because it is testing a novel strategy to find a route around the broad protections granted by federal law that shield the companies from litigation if their product is used to commit a crime.

Even when I was a pacifist, I lived in a very high - crime neighborhood, and called the cops on numerous occasions so that officers with guns could go after the criminals with guns and lock them up in our tremendously violent prison system where guards with guns would keep them there.

Liberal Democrat home affairs spokesman Chris Huhne said violent, and in particular gun crime, is «still far higher» than ten years ago.

Indeed, «data on firearms ownership by constabulary area in England,» like data from the United States, show «a negative correlation,» that is, «where firearms are most dense violent crime rates are lowest, and where guns are least dense violent crime rates are highest.»

In summation, it appears that higher gun ownership does imply higher rates of violent crime, but causation can not be shown in the data available:

Most Erie County Democratic voters are hard - working, ethnic, traditional, conservative people who believe in common sense ideas like: taxes are too high; criminals belong in jail; police should be respected; law abiding gun owners are not the root of our crime problem; plastic bags should be legal and that life is sacred.

The Strike Force was formed to tackle drugs, guns and gangs in the city's high - crime neighborhoods but came under fire for its tactics and was criticized by some who claim it unfairly targeted minorities.

It addresses gun control measures, and creates frameworks for schools and law enforcement, including new units within the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and the Florida Department of Education, including a Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Commission, and provides for student crime watch programs and other societal responses to potential threats to school safety.

Cuevas, an attorney who chairs the city and Schenectady County GOP committees, bemoaned the gun violence and drug crimes that fuel a negative perception of the city that leads to higher taxes and lower property values.

A new way of detecting and visualizing fingerprints from crime scenes using colour - changing fluorescent films could lead to higher confidence identifications from latent (hidden) fingerprints on knives, guns, bullet casings and other metal surfaces.

Events for the younger set included a tour of «the fourth dimension» — a room full of hypercubes and other higher dimensional objects that gave me a touch of vertigo; a chamber of robots that you could teach to play football; a demonstration of forensic science involving (real) guns and a (fake) cadaver in a staged crime scene; a live cooking show in which physicists, chemists, and anthropologists explained the science and origins of food; and a walking tour through the natural history of excrement featuring — you guessed it — a dizzying array of animal feces.

Interestingly Death Wish, the millennial - era remake of the gritty mid 70's crime thriller of the same name, notoriously arrives in theaters at an increasingly awkward moment in a divisive national climate (particularly in the aftermath of the most recent high school shooting) where the political stakes regarding gun violence in America are at an all - time high.

October 5, 2017 • The White House claims that Chicago has a high crime rate despite its stricter gun laws.

Although the UK does not have the same gun laws as the USA, it still has high numbers of knife crime and assaults, meaning students and staff are still at risk of an attack from dangerous individuals.

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Since then, they have been invoked in an ever - growing array of anti-crime objectives including the war on drugs, to battle the scourge of gun crimes, high - level fraud cases, and in the protection against sexual predators and child pornography.

Indeed, aggressive police raids — where doors are kicked in, machine guns are held to civilians» heads, and houses are completely ransacked — create a backlash against the police and against the legal system in general, especially when these tactics are used against «crimes» as mundane as poker games, checking high school students» lockers for drugs, and even cracking down on unlicensed hairdressers.