Rod McCullom

For many people, life in and around Chicago means near-constant surveillance

Does AI-based weapons technology prevent shootings? The evidence is thin

New research methods are revealing more evidence of the health dangers associated with America’s lead service lines.

Norway’s crusade to eliminate gasoline powered cars was years in the making. Can that achievement be replicated?

Researchers in Norway and the U.S. are training artificial intelligence to address cybergrooming. Will it work?

New research casts doubt on the benefits of deploying officers in public schools to deter criminal activity.

Major crimes are falling by most official measures, so why does the public feel the opposite is true?

Medical professionals who connect with their patients’ language and culture provide better care

Recent studies on technology that alerts police to gunfire have found it has little impact on shootings or prosecutions.

Lupe Washington’s job description does not include “public health scientist,” but it should. Washington is director of community health and violence prevention for the public health department of Harris County, Texas, which includes Houston, the nation’s fourth-largest city. She is also part of an ongoing community-based research project looking at ways to improve programs like the one she runs.
She’s part of a trend in public health research, in which researchers involve people from the comm...

New data show the number of non-fatal police shootings is much higher than previous estimates.

In kids and adolescents, exposure to gun violence is vastly understudied. But new research uncovers the ripple effects.

More people are using cameras and sharing footage with the police, but there’s little data showing their effectiveness.

More cities and law enforcement agencies are acquiring dog-like robots fort policing and surveillance. But there is little transparency around their numbers or effectiveness.

On an overcast Saturday, January 7, Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old local amateur photographer who also worked for FedEx, decided to capture Shelby Farms’ nature and landscapes at sunset. He was returning to his family’s home in southeast Memphis later that ...