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  • How one of America's most dangerous cities reduced gun violence

    March 12, 2015 |

    Al Jazeera |

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    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Richmond, California

    Richmond, California ranked among the highest homicide rates in the country. The city created the Office of Neighborhood Safety to engage the community in the effort to curb gun violence and prevent homicides. ONS works directly with the young people who are at risk and have succeeded in reducing the homicide rate.

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  • Battling America's other PTSD crisis

    March 06, 2015 |

    Yahoo! News |

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    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    A program in Philadelphia is pioneering new ways to treat the urban wounded. By seeing it as PTSD, and not pointing fingers, the city is using mental health tools to decrease violence and heal communities.

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  • Inside the Revival of One of the Nation's Most Notorious Housing Projects

    March 06, 2015 |

    NationSwell |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    SHIELDS for Families works in one of the country's most notoriously dilapidated housing projects to revitalize the neighborhood by providing education, treatment and counseling services.

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  • Behind LA's dramatic decline in gang violence

    February 24, 2015 |

    The Huffington Post |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    In the past, Los Angeles was a dangerous city fraught with gang wars. Lately, though, LA has become a safer city due to six changes enforced by the police cracking down on public violence and gangs.

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  • How is Europe countering radical Islam?

    February 18, 2015 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: Netherlands, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

    Teenagers around the world are at risk of indoctrination by Islamic extremism and volunteering to fight for the Islamic state. Different European nations seek to make Islamic extremism unattractive to youth by bolstering surveillance efforts, internet outreach, and teaching the Islam of peace.

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  • The End of Gangs

    December 29, 2014 |

    Pacific Standard |

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    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    In 2014, the Los Angeles Police Department announced that gang-related crime had dropped by nearly half since 2008. The transformation of LA holds lessons for decreasing violent crime through community policing, a focus on gangs, and the use of CompStat.

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  • Colombia's Data-Driven Fight Against Crime

    November 20, 2014 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Colombia, Medellín, Antioquia

    Colombia has attempted to decrease murder and homicide rates by setting up curfews for teenagers, forcing bars to close earlier in the evening, and creating gun laws to prevent the carrying of weapons. As a result of this epidemiological, data-driven approach, along with other governmental factors, the homicide rate has decreased significantly in most of the cities in which it was implemented.

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  • How One California City Began Bringing Its Murder Rate Down—Without Cops

    November 12, 2014 |

    The Nation (New York) |

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    Response Location: United States, Richmond, California

    Richmond, California's Office of Neighborhood Safety responded to alarmingly high gun violence levels with an outreach approach to young men at high risk of getting shot or of shooting others. Instead of a heavy-handed enforcement strategy, the office intervenes in likely retaliatory violence and enrolls men as fellows in a year-long program offering counseling, education, job training, and a $500 monthly stipend for fellows on the right track. In the programs first three years, gun homicides dropped and 65 of 68 fellows survived.

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  • Responses To Gang Violence: The GIFT Program

    October 08, 2014 |

    Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB) |

    Radio |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Portland, Oregon

    Gang violence reduction services are often centered on singular gang members, leaving a gap meeting the needs of those affected by gang activity. GIFT, the Gang Impacted Families Team, is working to expand support for entire families affected by gang violence in the state of Oregon.

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  • A Chance to Go From Hard Lives to Healing

    September 18, 2014 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Oakland, California

    A novel way to help young men growing up in communities in which concentrated poverty, violence and unemployment are well-documented barriers to health and longevity: male youth of color are trained to be the emergency response team to help stabilize street victims before doctors or nurses begin procedures.

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