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  • Successful Birmingham program faces funding gap despite reduction in youth crime

    March 13, 2025 |

    AL.com (Alabama Media Group) |

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    Response Location: United States, Birmingham, Alabama

    RESTORE is a juvenile re-entry program offering supportive programming and guidance to intervene in cycles of crime and help more youth avoid the juvenile system and learn to make more positive choices. Already this year, RESTORE has served 344 young people through their workshops. Since launching in 2023, the program has helped 19 people graduate with their high school diploma, GED or a certification.

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  • Birmingham hospital program offers hope amid homicide crisis: How it works

    March 12, 2025 |

    AL.com (Alabama Media Group) |

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    Response Location: United States, Birmingham, Alabama

    Birmingham’s Offender Alumni Association is a group of violence intervention specialists that check in with gun violence patients at the hospital to offer mental health services and case management to prevent reinjury and retaliatory violence. Since launching, the group has taken on 144 clients, providing wrap-around services to victims and their families, including mentoring, emergency relocation and funds for medicine, groceries, rent and utilities.

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  • Inside the 'Utopias' of Mexico City

    October 15, 2024 |

    Bloomberg CityLab |

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    Response Location: Mexico, Iztapalapa, Mexico City

    Mexico City’s Utopias are large community centers that offer a wide variety of services and amenities, including skills workshops, gym classes, landromats, food and music lessons. There are currently 15 across one borough, and the incoming administration plans to develop more than 100 in total.

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  • 'Suicide in general is a very impulsive act, especially for teens'

    October 01, 2024 |

    NowKalamazoo |

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    Response Location: United States, Kalamazoo, Michigan

    Michigan was recently added to the growing list of states with new gun violence prevention legislation called Child Access Prevention (CAP) laws. CAP, in partnership with safe storage laws, requires adults to safely store firearms in their homes and allows prosecutors to bring charges against those who don’t comply. Several studies have found CAP laws help reduce violent crime rates, suicides and unintentional injuries and deaths.

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  • 'This is not luck. This is a systemic approach': These major US cities are trying to curb violent crime — and it's working

    September 29, 2024 |

    CNN |

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    Response Location: United States, San Antonio, Texas

    Several cities across the U.S. are trying new methods to reduce violent crime. Some of these, like the “hotspot policing” effort in San Antonio that increases police visibility in areas that are statistically prone to violent crime, are working. The first part of San Antonio’s three-phase plan saw a 37% decrease in violent crime compared to the previous year.

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  • Can the U.S. Make Prisons More Rehabilitative? Here's a Major Test Case

    September 26, 2024 |

    The Marshall Project |

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    Response Location: United States, South Carolina

    The national initiative Restoring Promise works with states to create criminal justice reform initiatives that draw inspiration from rehabilitation-focused German prisons. The program at Lee Correctional Institution in South Carolina allows participants to customize their individual cells and focuses on mentorships, educational classes, and self-governance.

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  • Follow-up: What happened to South Dallas' Malcolm X Plaza? 

    September 23, 2024 |

    Dallas Free Press |

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    Response Location: United States, Dallas, Texas

    After community organizations turned a vacant Dallas parking lot into a pop-up plaza space with basketball hoops, outdoor seating, resource distribution, and community events, crime on that block fell by 55% over three months. However, permitting requirements make it difficult to make the changes permanent, and the area has now been reverted to a vacant lot.

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  • Birmingham tries blocking streets to reduce crime. Is it working?

    August 20, 2024 |

    AL.com (Alabama Media Group) |

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    Response Location: United States, Birmingham, Alabama

    City officials put up concrete barriers and road closed signs across 18 entry points to the Eastlake neighborhood in Birmingham. As part of the city’s Project Safe Streets pilot program, the road closures are intended to deter speeding, shootings, and other crimes.

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  • In Rural Tennessee, Domestic Violence Victims Face Barriers to Getting Justice. One County Has Transformed Its Approach.

    August 12, 2024 |

    ProPublica |

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    Response Location: United States, Tennessee

    Domestic violence incidents in Scott County, Tennessee, fell by more than half after it changed the process it uses for handling cases. That’s more than anywhere else in the state. Among other things, the county hired a dedicated domestic violence officer, created an accessible batterers intervention program, combined most of the relevant agencies under one roof, and requires abusers to detail who they are giving their guns to when they have to surrender them.

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  • The Last Line of Care

    August 01, 2024 |

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    Response Location: United States, Durham, North Carolina

    An alternative response team in Durham, North Carolina, responds to certain 911 calls instead of the police to help people in crisis. Now, it’s working to improve the ways it connects those people with social services afterward.

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