{"id":745900,"date":"2023-06-19T12:24:07","date_gmt":"2023-06-19T12:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=745900"},"modified":"2023-06-29T12:28:18","modified_gmt":"2023-06-29T12:28:18","slug":"a-spate-of-weekend-mass-shootings-leaves-6-people-dead-and-dozens-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/public-safety\/a-spate-of-weekend-mass-shootings-leaves-6-people-dead-and-dozens-injured","title":{"rendered":"A Spate of Weekend Mass Shootings Leaves 6 People Dead and Dozens Injured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A spate of weekend mass shootings and violence across the U.S. killed at least six people, including a&#160;Pennsylvania state trooper, and left&#160;dozens injured. The shootings follow a surge&#160;in homicides and other violence&#160;over the past several years that experts say accelerated during the coronavirus pandemic. They happened in suburban Chicago, Washington state, central Pennsylvania, St. Louis, Southern California and Baltimore. &#8220;There&#8217;s no question there&#8217;s been a spike in violence,&#8221; said Daniel Nagin, a professor of public policy and statistics at Carnegie Mellon University. &#8220;Some of these cases seem to be just disputes, often among adolescents, and those disputes are played out with firearms, not with fists.&#8221; Researchers disagree over the cause of the increase. Theories include the possibility that violence is driven by the prevalence of guns in America, or by less aggressive police tactics or a decline in prosecutions for misdemeanor weapon offenses, Nagin said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A spate of weekend mass shootings and violence across the U.S. killed at least six people, including a&#160;Pennsylvania state trooper, and left&#160;dozens injured. The shootings follow a surge&#160;in homicides and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-745900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public-safety"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=745900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=745900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=745900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=745900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}