News Roundup

As the News Roundup noted last week, bills in the General Assembly that would require Sheriffs to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement efforts are causing some controversy.  The News & Observer reports that the Sheriffs of Mecklenburg, Buncombe, and Wake counties attended a Senate Judiciary Committee meeting this week to express their opposition to House Bill 370, proposed legislation that essentially requires local law enforcement officials to cooperate with ICE and provides a mechanism to remove officials from office for failing or refusing to do so.  This piece from the Daily Advance says that some Sheriffs in other jurisdictions have no problems with the bill.  Keep reading for more news. Dallas Shooting.  On Monday, a man armed with an assault rifle and more than 150 rounds of ammunition launched an attack outside the Earle Cabell Federal Building in downtown Dallas, shooting at people in and around the building.  The attacker, Army veteran Brian Isaack Clyde, was immediately confronted by three officers from the Federal Protective Service who were stationed at the building.  Clyde was shot and killed.  A photojournalist who works for the Dallas Morning News, Tom Fox, happened to be at the building when the attack started and captured stunning and terrifying images of the attack as it unfolded. Criminal Justice Data.  Because the criminal justice apparatus in the United States is not an integrated and cohesive single system but rather is the sum of fractured federal, state, and local operations, reliable data about the whole is hard to come [...]