“Over and over again, from the records, what we saw is that law enforcement was able to intervene and remove firearms because they got a tip,” UC Davis Violence Prevention Research Program director and Center for Violence Prevention Research champion Dr. Garen Wintemute said.
University of California-Davis medical school researchers published a study examining 21 cases in which gun violence restraining orders were obtained through the courts because of potential mass shooting threats. Lead author was Garen Wintemute, champion of the Center for Violence Prevention Research Big Idea.
Earlier this month, employees from IBM got together at a reception and tour with UC Davis’ Office of Public Scholarship and Engagement and Aggie Square staff for introductions and friendly conversation.
On Monday, a team of researchers from the country’s first state-funded gun violence research center at University of California Davis School of Medicine, released the first research into its effects.
Four years after California became one of the first states to expedite the removal of guns from people seen as a public danger by family members or law enforcement, its “red flag” law appears to be helping to reduce the chance of mass shootings, according to a study released Monday by the UC Davis School of Medicine.
Anna Maddison ’22 is looking forward to learning more about global systems shaping the environmental toxicology during her study abroad quarter in Nottingham, England, this fall.
Maria Arteaga ‘18 was already an active student leader before she became a member of the Global Education for All Big Idea Steering Committee — an advisory group is guiding the development of providing each and every UC Davis student with global learning experiences.
Garen Wintemute, M.D., M.P.H., champion for the Center for Violence Prevention Research, provides expertise on the benefit of gun violence restraining orders.
Dr. Garen Wintemute, director of the Violence Prevention Research Program and champion of the Center for Violence Prevention Research, said that while extreme risk protection orders originally pertained to people at risk for suicide, he believes it could have some benefit when identifying possible mass shooters as well.
The UC Davis Immigration Law Clinic has received $1.15 million from two nonprofits to help advance a key tenet of the Global Human Rights Big Idea: serving at-risk migrant children at the U.S. border.
