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The DAO Special Investigation Unit responded to todays fatal shooting of a civilian by police shortly after it occurred, and has been on scene with other DAO personnel since that time investigating, as we do jointly with the PPD Officer-Involved Shooting Investigation Unit, in shootings and fatalities by other means involving police. – Larry Krasner	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
New York City once described as America's crime capital, had become by the mid-1990s, America's safest large city, murders, shootings, and violent crime are increasing at percentages unheard of in the past. We're seeing the return of rioting and looting. – Maegan VazquezPolice reformRudy Giuliani	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Investigations have been impacted, if someone has shot someone else, the chances are they're probably shooting other people. So, if you can't follow up on those shootings, they'll likely continue. – Chuck Wexler	Found on CNN 3 years ago
To take pride in that( shootings) is absolutely condemnable in my view, it's highly unethical and it doesn't fit the code of ethics for policing. And certainly, it was something John Whitney felt John Whitney needed to be ended. – Alison Berry Wilkinson	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Despite the calls from the community to end police brutality and killings, Phoenix PD continues to respond to calls with violence, phoenix PD cannot continue to investigate itself in officer-involved shootings and police misconduct. – Phoenix Councilman Carlos Garcia	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
We've had over 75 shootings in the city over the past several weeks, you can't blame that on APD [ Atlanta Police Department ]. – Keisha Lance Bottoms	Found on CNN 3 years ago
So when Roland Fryer look at law enforcement contacts, if a certain group is committing more crimes, more violent crimes, and law enforcement's having to come in more contact with them, then that number is gon na be higher, who in the world in their right mind would think that our shootings should be right along the Tulsa Police Maj. Travis Yates Census lines ? That's insanity. Right ? But everybody's just buying off on this. – Tulsa Police Maj. Travis Yates	Found on CNN 3 years ago
I stand here before you today as a mother and grandmother who has had to use a firearm to defend their child, even though I didnt have to pull the trigger, just the fact that they could see it, and they knew that I had it, was the determining factor. Opponents say allowing teenagers to carry a concealed weapon without a permit within city limits could lead to shootings. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP. – Christy Zito	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
Bail reform is not the only problem here. The double-digit increases in shootings, robberies, burglaryand thefts arent the product of any single law or policy, they are all the result of failed leadership and a political culture that denigrates and devalues the work police officers do. – President Patrick Lynch	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
I am heartbroken by the loss of life caused by mass shootings across Texas and the United States and determined to take on the corporate gun lobby and its enablers. – Wendy Davis	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
As a percentage of homicides, these mass killings are also accounting for more deaths. He believes its partially a byproduct of an angry and frustrated time that we are living in. Densley also said crime tends to go in waves with the 1970s and 1980s seeing a number of serial killers, the 1990s marked by school shootings and child abductions and the early 2000s dominated by concerns over terrorism. This seems to be the age of mass shootings, Densley said. EL PASO SHOOTING LEAVES 20 DEAD, 26 INJURED He and James Alan Fox, a criminologist and professor at Northeastern University, also expressed worries about the contagion effect, the focus on mass killings fueling other mass killings. These are still rare events. Clearly the risk is low but the fear is high, Fox said. What fuels contagion is fear. The mass shootings this year include the three in August in Texasand Daytonthat stirred fresh urgency,especially among Democratic presidential candidates, to restrict access to firearms. While the large death tolls attracted much of the attention, the killings inflicted a mental and physical toll on dozens of others. The database does not have a complete count of victims who were wounded, but among the three mass shootings in August alone, more than 65 people were injured. DAYTON, OHIO, SHOOTING THAT LEFT 9 DEAD, 27 HURT HALTED IN UNDER A MINUTE BY COPS WHO SHOT SUSPECT: MAYOR Daniel Munoz, 28, of Odessa, was caught in the crossfire ofthe shooting that took place between a 10-mile stretch in West Texas. He was on his way to meet a friend at a bar when he saw a gunman and the barrel of a firearm. Instinctively, he got down just as his car was sprayed with bullets. Munoz, who moved to Texas about a year ago to work in the oil industry, said he had actually been on edge since the Walmart shooting, which took place just 28 days earlier and about 300 miles (480 kilometers) away, worried that a shooting could happen anywhere at any time. He remembers calling his motherafter the El Paso shootingto encourage her to have a firearm at home or with her in case she needed to defend herself. He would say the same to friends, telling them before they went to a Walmart to bring a firearm in case they needed to protect themselves or others during an attack. BEFORE MASS SHOOTING, TEXAS GUNMAN WAS ON A LONG SPIRAL DOWN, INVESTIGATOR SAYS You cant just always assume youre safe. In that moment, as soon as the El Paso shooting happened, I was on edge. – Daniel Munoz	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
It's not only the anti-immigrant rhetoric being expressed by this administration, there's also increasing concern with regard to gun violence in this country, there's been a number of shootings and that gets reported worldwide, and parents certainly take all of this into account when they are thinking about where they want to send their children to study. – Rachel Banks	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Thats not fair to the men and women who work in local law enforcement. Its certainly not fair to law-abiding citizens who would be affected by this, and I think Lake County needed to hear us stand up and say, weve got Commissioner Josh Blake back. FLORIDA GUN OWNERS, LAWYERS REACT TO LAKE COUNTYS SECOND AMENDMENT SANCTUARY RESOLUTION Those trying to prevent Gun Violence say lax gun laws wont cut it in a state that has seen some of Americas deadliest mass shootings. The Pulse Nightclub shooting in Orlando left 49 dead. ( Elina Shirazi) We need to be preventing these shootings, not making it easier for dangerous people to use firearms they are concerned about the gun-grabbing, is what they are calling [ it ], what they should be concerned about is our rampant gun violence which is happening almost daily in this country. – Patricia Brigham	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
When I heard a wide swath of the Democratic presidential candidates in debates calling for national gun confiscation, weaponized local law enforcement to go door to door and take weapons, legally owned weapons from their friends and neighbors, I thought we cant let that happen, thats not fair to the men and women who work in local law enforcement. Its certainly not fair to law-abiding citizens who would be affected by this, and I think Lake County needed to hear us stand up and say, weve got Commissioner Josh Blake back. FLORIDA GUN OWNERS, LAWYERS REACT TO LAKE COUNTYS SECOND AMENDMENT SANCTUARY RESOLUTION Those trying to prevent Gun Violence say lax gun laws wont cut it in a state that has seen some of Americas deadliest mass shootings. The Pulse Nightclub shooting in Orlando left 49 dead. ( Elina Shirazi) We need to be preventing these shootings, not making it easier for dangerous people to use firearms they are concerned about the gun-grabbing, is what they are calling [ it ], what they should be concerned about is our rampant gun violence which is happening almost daily in this country. – Josh Blake	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
After Sandy Hook, our engineering team decided to challenge themselves to find a way in which we could help defend school children, teachers and administrators in the event of another active shooter situation, it's an unfortunate reality that school shootings are so prevalent in America. So it's crucial to be able to buy that critical 10 minutes of safety before law enforcement arrives in such a situation. – Tony Deering	Found on CNN 4 years ago
When I came to America I wasn't aware of the problem of school shootings, children should not be in school under a black cloud of fear. – Omer Barnes	Found on CNN 4 years ago
We've been through Columbine and all the school shootings after it. We know we have to improve school security, the question was : How do we do it so our school doesn't feel like a jail, with metal detectors ? It's not healthy for kids. – Adam Fried	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Youve seen multiple mass shootings stopped by people that saw something, said something and then they saw someone actually did something, not like in Parkland -- where no one did anything and that it was these failures and these policies that are in the schools or across the nation. – Andrew Pollack	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
Im a big gun guy. I believe in the Second Amendment, plain and simple, the problem we have in the country are these mass shootings. There are a lot of things we need to look at... Our focus should be on [that] we dont want anyone who shouldnt have a gun to have a gun. – Joe Walsh	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
I have seen what the carnage creates in communities like mine, because we forget -- national shootings, these mass shootings are tragedies, but the majority of the homicide victims come from neighborhoods like mine. – Cory Booker	Found on CNN 4 years ago
We are never going to solve this crisis if we have to wait for it to personally affect us or our neighborhood or our community before we demand action, i have seen what the carnage creates in communities like mine, because we forget -- national shootings, these mass shootings are tragedies, but the majority of the homicide victims come from neighborhoods like mine. – Cory Booker	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Texas must achieve several objectives to better protect our communities and our residents from mass shootings. – Greg Abbott	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
After so many devastating shootings, now we're asking Cory Gardner : Join us because we need you and you need us. – Coni Sanders	Found on CNN 4 years ago
For me, it's a pretty personal issue. I see that we've tried more gun control and all these other different approaches year after year to solve these mass shootings and none of it's working. – Patrick Neville	Found on CNN 4 years ago

The DAO Special Investigation Unit responded to todays fatal shooting of a civilian by police shortly after it occurred, and has been on scene with other DAO personnel since that time investigating, as we do jointly with the PPD Officer-Involved Shooting Investigation Unit, in shootings and fatalities by other means involving police.

– Larry Krasner

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

New York City once described as America's crime capital, had become by the mid-1990s, America's safest large city, murders, shootings, and violent crime are increasing at percentages unheard of in the past. We're seeing the return of rioting and looting.

– Maegan VazquezPolice reformRudy Giuliani

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Investigations have been impacted, if someone has shot someone else, the chances are they're probably shooting other people. So, if you can't follow up on those shootings, they'll likely continue.

– Chuck Wexler

Found on CNN
3 years ago

To take pride in that( shootings) is absolutely condemnable in my view, it's highly unethical and it doesn't fit the code of ethics for policing. And certainly, it was something John Whitney felt John Whitney needed to be ended.

– Alison Berry Wilkinson

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Despite the calls from the community to end police brutality and killings, Phoenix PD continues to respond to calls with violence, phoenix PD cannot continue to investigate itself in officer-involved shootings and police misconduct.

– Phoenix Councilman Carlos Garcia

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

We've had over 75 shootings in the city over the past several weeks, you can't blame that on APD [ Atlanta Police Department ].

– Keisha Lance Bottoms

Found on CNN
3 years ago

So when Roland Fryer look at law enforcement contacts, if a certain group is committing more crimes, more violent crimes, and law enforcement's having to come in more contact with them, then that number is gon na be higher, who in the world in their right mind would think that our shootings should be right along the Tulsa Police Maj. Travis Yates Census lines ? That's insanity. Right ? But everybody's just buying off on this.

– Tulsa Police Maj. Travis Yates

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I stand here before you today as a mother and grandmother who has had to use a firearm to defend their child, even though I didnt have to pull the trigger, just the fact that they could see it, and they knew that I had it, was the determining factor. Opponents say allowing teenagers to carry a concealed weapon without a permit within city limits could lead to shootings. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP.

– Christy Zito

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Bail reform is not the only problem here. The double-digit increases in shootings, robberies, burglaryand thefts arent the product of any single law or policy, they are all the result of failed leadership and a political culture that denigrates and devalues the work police officers do.

– President Patrick Lynch

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

I am heartbroken by the loss of life caused by mass shootings across Texas and the United States and determined to take on the corporate gun lobby and its enablers.

– Wendy Davis

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

As a percentage of homicides, these mass killings are also accounting for more deaths. He believes its partially a byproduct of an angry and frustrated time that we are living in. Densley also said crime tends to go in waves with the 1970s and 1980s seeing a number of serial killers, the 1990s marked by school shootings and child abductions and the early 2000s dominated by concerns over terrorism. This seems to be the age of mass shootings, Densley said. EL PASO SHOOTING LEAVES 20 DEAD, 26 INJURED He and James Alan Fox, a criminologist and professor at Northeastern University, also expressed worries about the contagion effect, the focus on mass killings fueling other mass killings. These are still rare events. Clearly the risk is low but the fear is high, Fox said. What fuels contagion is fear. The mass shootings this year include the three in August in Texasand Daytonthat stirred fresh urgency,especially among Democratic presidential candidates, to restrict access to firearms. While the large death tolls attracted much of the attention, the killings inflicted a mental and physical toll on dozens of others. The database does not have a complete count of victims who were wounded, but among the three mass shootings in August alone, more than 65 people were injured. DAYTON, OHIO, SHOOTING THAT LEFT 9 DEAD, 27 HURT HALTED IN UNDER A MINUTE BY COPS WHO SHOT SUSPECT: MAYOR Daniel Munoz, 28, of Odessa, was caught in the crossfire ofthe shooting that took place between a 10-mile stretch in West Texas. He was on his way to meet a friend at a bar when he saw a gunman and the barrel of a firearm. Instinctively, he got down just as his car was sprayed with bullets. Munoz, who moved to Texas about a year ago to work in the oil industry, said he had actually been on edge since the Walmart shooting, which took place just 28 days earlier and about 300 miles (480 kilometers) away, worried that a shooting could happen anywhere at any time. He remembers calling his motherafter the El Paso shootingto encourage her to have a firearm at home or with her in case she needed to defend herself. He would say the same to friends, telling them before they went to a Walmart to bring a firearm in case they needed to protect themselves or others during an attack. BEFORE MASS SHOOTING, TEXAS GUNMAN WAS ON A LONG SPIRAL DOWN, INVESTIGATOR SAYS You cant just always assume youre safe. In that moment, as soon as the El Paso shooting happened, I was on edge.

– Daniel Munoz

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

It's not only the anti-immigrant rhetoric being expressed by this administration, there's also increasing concern with regard to gun violence in this country, there's been a number of shootings and that gets reported worldwide, and parents certainly take all of this into account when they are thinking about where they want to send their children to study.

– Rachel Banks

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Thats not fair to the men and women who work in local law enforcement. Its certainly not fair to law-abiding citizens who would be affected by this, and I think Lake County needed to hear us stand up and say, weve got Commissioner Josh Blake back. FLORIDA GUN OWNERS, LAWYERS REACT TO LAKE COUNTYS SECOND AMENDMENT SANCTUARY RESOLUTION Those trying to prevent Gun Violence say lax gun laws wont cut it in a state that has seen some of Americas deadliest mass shootings. The Pulse Nightclub shooting in Orlando left 49 dead. ( Elina Shirazi) We need to be preventing these shootings, not making it easier for dangerous people to use firearms they are concerned about the gun-grabbing, is what they are calling [ it ], what they should be concerned about is our rampant gun violence which is happening almost daily in this country.

– Patricia Brigham

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

When I heard a wide swath of the Democratic presidential candidates in debates calling for national gun confiscation, weaponized local law enforcement to go door to door and take weapons, legally owned weapons from their friends and neighbors, I thought we cant let that happen, thats not fair to the men and women who work in local law enforcement. Its certainly not fair to law-abiding citizens who would be affected by this, and I think Lake County needed to hear us stand up and say, weve got Commissioner Josh Blake back. FLORIDA GUN OWNERS, LAWYERS REACT TO LAKE COUNTYS SECOND AMENDMENT SANCTUARY RESOLUTION Those trying to prevent Gun Violence say lax gun laws wont cut it in a state that has seen some of Americas deadliest mass shootings. The Pulse Nightclub shooting in Orlando left 49 dead. ( Elina Shirazi) We need to be preventing these shootings, not making it easier for dangerous people to use firearms they are concerned about the gun-grabbing, is what they are calling [ it ], what they should be concerned about is our rampant gun violence which is happening almost daily in this country.

– Josh Blake

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

After Sandy Hook, our engineering team decided to challenge themselves to find a way in which we could help defend school children, teachers and administrators in the event of another active shooter situation, it's an unfortunate reality that school shootings are so prevalent in America. So it's crucial to be able to buy that critical 10 minutes of safety before law enforcement arrives in such a situation.

– Tony Deering

Found on CNN
4 years ago

When I came to America I wasn't aware of the problem of school shootings, children should not be in school under a black cloud of fear.

– Omer Barnes

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We've been through Columbine and all the school shootings after it. We know we have to improve school security, the question was : How do we do it so our school doesn't feel like a jail, with metal detectors ? It's not healthy for kids.

– Adam Fried

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Youve seen multiple mass shootings stopped by people that saw something, said something and then they saw someone actually did something, not like in Parkland -- where no one did anything and that it was these failures and these policies that are in the schools or across the nation.

– Andrew Pollack

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Im a big gun guy. I believe in the Second Amendment, plain and simple, the problem we have in the country are these mass shootings. There are a lot of things we need to look at... Our focus should be on [that] we dont want anyone who shouldnt have a gun to have a gun.

– Joe Walsh

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

I have seen what the carnage creates in communities like mine, because we forget -- national shootings, these mass shootings are tragedies, but the majority of the homicide victims come from neighborhoods like mine.

– Cory Booker

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We are never going to solve this crisis if we have to wait for it to personally affect us or our neighborhood or our community before we demand action, i have seen what the carnage creates in communities like mine, because we forget -- national shootings, these mass shootings are tragedies, but the majority of the homicide victims come from neighborhoods like mine.

– Cory Booker

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Texas must achieve several objectives to better protect our communities and our residents from mass shootings.

– Greg Abbott

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

After so many devastating shootings, now we're asking Cory Gardner : Join us because we need you and you need us.

– Coni Sanders

Found on CNN
4 years ago

For me, it's a pretty personal issue. I see that we've tried more gun control and all these other different approaches year after year to solve these mass shootings and none of it's working.

– Patrick Neville

Found on CNN
4 years ago

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