“The CDC is shuffling Covid into the deck of infectious diseases that we’re satisfied living with,” Sam Scarpino, a public health expert at Northeastern University, told the New York Times in regards to the lack of Covid tracking.

Today, the first police report about a crime is less apt to be taken as gospel. “Now, more attention is paid to disparities in policing, who gets charged and how people of color are treated,” said Mancusi, who teaches journalism and public relations at Northeastern University.

The institute was co-founded by Northeastern University Law Professor Richard Daynard, who battled tobacco companies for decades.

So let’s start there. The 27 deaths indicated above have occurred in five events, according to the Mass Killing Database maintained by Northeastern University, USA Today and the Associated Press.

The three-time founder told Northeastern University’s Class of 2023 how to find motivation in the face of naysayers.

This year has seen more mass killings to date than any other year since 2006, according to a database from USA Today, Northeastern University, and Associated Press.

In a given year, the U.S. typically sees six mass shootings in a public place, and the most the country has ever witnessed was 10 in a year, according to James Alan Fox, a professor at Northeastern University who has studied mass killings for 40 years.

Over the first four months and six days of this year, 115 people have died in 22 mass killings — an average of one mass killing a week, according to data collected by a partnership of The Associated Press, USA Today, and Northeastern University.