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  • Stop me, Minnesota shooter wrote. Missed clues sidelined state's red flag law.

    September 05, 2025 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: United States, Minnesota

    A Minnesota law allows both citizens and members of law enforcement to petition for someone’s guns to be taken if they’re showing signs that they may be a threat to themselves or others, otherwise known as a red flag law. But though the shooter in a 2025 attack made social media posts that could have triggered the law, no one reported these concerns, and most of the state’s 87 counties have yet to use the law at all.

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  • Maryland students aim to prevent school violence with help from Sandy Hook Promise

    May 26, 2025 |

    Capital News Service Maryland |

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    Response Location: United States, Ijamsville, Maryland

    Sandy Hook Promise spearheads prevention programs designed to help students keep their schools safer from gun violence, including Students Against Violence Everywhere, or SAVE, a network of youth-led clubs dedicated to improving school culture and encouraging student advocacy. There are more than 5,000 SAVE clubs across the country, and one club in Maryland has helped members find a sense of empowerment through getting involved.

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  • How community activists, police and residents drove down shootings in East Harlem

    May 05, 2025 |

    Gothamist |

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    Response Location: United States, East Harlem, New York

    East Harlem’s Cornerstone youth programming at community centers brings together community nonprofits, police, residents, and other local agencies to address gun violence in the public housing. Through community outreach, more strategic gang enforcement policies, and other programming, the approach has led to a 30% reduction in shootings in the area.

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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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  • Red flag laws are increasingly being used to protect gun owners in crisis

    March 11, 2025 |

    Stateline |

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    Response Location: United States, Maryland

    Red flag laws allow family members, law enforcement officers, and sometimes even health care workers to file an extreme risk protection order when they’re concerned that someone with access to a gun may harm themselves or others. In Maryland, which is considered a national leader in this type of legislation, a red flag law has helped prevent potential school shootings and the state is now focused on training health care providers to recognize concerning cases and file petitions when necessary.

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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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  • 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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  • This Birmingham nonprofit gives youth safe spaces to open up: 'Listen'

    July 11, 2024 |

    AL.com (Alabama Media Group) |

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    Response Location: United States, Birmingham, Alabama

    Kings Kids Outreach provides youth with mentorship, tutoring, school supplies, counseling and other summer programs to help improve their academic performance, reduce absenteeism and protect them from growing rates of violence in the city. The group provides services to more than 2,000 children and, from the 2021-22 and 2022-23 school years, reduced chronic absenteeism from 26.2% to 12.7%

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  • What do violence interrupters in Oakland do? We spoke with one to find out

    June 06, 2024 |

    The Oaklandside |

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    Response Location: United States, Oakland, California

    Volunteer violence interrupters with Youth Alive — a nonprofit based in Oakland, California — are breaking cycles of violence by providing immediate support to victims and their families after a crime. They receive tips from the community, direct people to resources, mediate conflicts, and even help survivors relocate.

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