The Main Mental Health Issue in This Country Is in the Republican Party Michael Tomasky, New Republic
Less Than 5% of Violent Acts Are Linked to Mental Illness, Research Shows Julie Wernau, Wall Street Journal
The Staggering Hypocrisy of Officials Who Are Blaming Mental Illness for Mass Shootings Benjamin F. Miller, Slate
Grim body count unlikely to be enough for Republicans to act on gun reform David Smith, The Guardian
Should We Be Forced to See Exactly What an AR-15 Does to a 10-Year-Old? Susie Linfield, New York Times
Biden calls for Congress to ban assault weapons, high-capacity magazines John Wagner and Eugene Scott, Washington Post
Minutes After Biden’s Gun Violence Speech, Another Shooting In America Amanda Terkel, HuffPost
Taking Cues From Texas, California Proposes Its Own Bounty Law – Against Guns Matt Ford, New Republic
Can lessons of community violence interrupters prevent mass shootings? Abené Clayton, The Guardian
We Already Turned Schools Into Fortresses Alex Yablon, New York Magazine
Pete Arredondo spent years preparing for a school shooting. Then it happened. Silvia Foster-Frau, Paulina Villegas, and Steve Thompson, Washington Post
What Uvalde and George Floyd tell us about policing and force Michael McAuliffe, Tampa Bay Times
Uvalde Shooting: A Case for Defunding the Police and Disarming Teens Olayemi Olurin, Teen Vogue
‘Reality Never Gives You the Perfect Narrative’ Kathryn VanArendonk, New York Magazine
Meet the Other Two Northern California DAs Facing Law Enforcement Blowback Piper French, Bolts Magazine
If criminal justice reform can’t survive in San Francisco, can it survive anywhere? Miriam Pawel, Los Angeles Times
San Diego Race Will Decide New Leadership for California’s Deadliest Jail System Kelly Davis, Bolts Magazine
Lawmakers Call for Probe Into Deadly Federal Prison Christie Thompson and Joseph Shapiro, The Marshall Project/NPR
Remembering NYC’s “Forgotten” Women’s Prison The Takeaway
At Laughing Bear Bakery, A Criminal Record is a Job Qualification Tara Adhikari, The Crime Report