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Let’s Keep the Conversation About Gun Control Going

WRITTEN BY: Mimi Rocah, a former Federal Prosecutor and Pace Law Distinguished Criminal Justice Fellow

It was great to see such an amazing turnout at the November 6 talk with former ATF Mike Burke about guns and gun violence. Please keep reading and talking about the issues. Here are some good follow-up reads:

Event: Gun Regulation in an Era of Mass Shootings

Please join Mimi Rocah, a former federal prosecutor and Pace Law Distinguished Criminal Justice Fellow, as she discusses gun regulation and mass shootings in modern America with Michael Burke, a former ATF Supervisory Special Agent, on November 6, 2017.

Of Interest: Radiolab Presents: More Perfect, The Gun Show (Oct. 12, 2017).

Does this Government Conduct “Shock the Conscience of the Ninth Circuit?”

The Ninth Circuit recently upheld a due process challenge to an ATF sting that targeted the poorest minority neighborhoods in Phoenix to court individuals – with a promise of riches – to break into and rob local fictitious, non-existent stash houses.  Many of these individuals had no criminal records; almost all were out of work and poor.

Pace Professor Bennett L. Gershman analyzes the ATF’s penchant for creating fictitious crimes (see e.g., Operation Fast and Furious) in a recent Huffington Post column.  Click here to read the entire post.