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Historically, labor spies, hired to infiltrate, monitor, disrupt, or subvert union activities, have used agent provocateur tactics. Agent provocateur activities raise ethical and legal issues. In common law jurisdictions, the legal concept of entrapment may apply if the main impetus for the crime was the provocateur.
According to the Gun Violence Archive, there have been more than 180 mass shootings in the U.S. so far this year, as defined by a minimum of four victims either shot or killed, not including the ...
The U.S. has substantially more mass shootings (in which four or more people are killed) than other developed countries. [34] A New York Times study reported how outcomes of active shooter attacks varied with actions of the attacker, the police (42% of total incidents), and bystanders (including a "good guy with a gun" outcome in 5.1% of total incidents).
A mass shooting is a violent crime in which one or more attackers use a firearm to kill or injure multiple individuals in rapid succession. There is no widely accepted specific definition, and different organizations tracking such incidents use different criteria.
A Scripps News investigation found at least 23 Maine police officers had some level of knowledge about Robert Card’s threats and mental decline leading up to his mass shooting.
The dangerous pace of mass shootings escalated in 2020 during the Covid-19 pandemic and has persisted since then. Between 2019 and 2020, the total number of mass shootings each year jumped from ...
The Act did not create any new crimes but rather mandated a definition, across federal law enforcement agencies, of "mass killings" as a killing of three or more victims in the same incident. The Act enabled the Federal Bureau of Investigation to develop a program of research and training to address active shooter incidents.
The Gun Violence Archive, which defines a mass shooting as four or more people shot in one incident (not including the shooter), reports more than 14,000 people killed and over 29,000 injured in 2017.