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24 September 2020
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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1500-3000 Words
Remote learning during the pandemic robs teachers and counselors of face-to-face contact that can reveal serious problems in children's lives, and so Philadelphia schools created the Healing Together program to train ...
16 September 2020
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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1500-3000 Words
Since the 2018 opening of a trauma-care center near the neighborhoods most affected by Chicago's gun violence, the University of Chicago Medical Center's Violence Recovery Program has helped survivors and victims' fam...
15 September 2020
Flint, Michigan, United States
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1500-3000 Words
In the first full month since it was created to take illegal guns off the street, Flint's Special Investigative Unit seized 64 firearms and made dozens of arrests. The unit's predictive policing approach relies on dat...
11 September 2020
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
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Under 800 Words
After three months of a pilot project putting video-equipped planes in flight over Baltimore, police made arrests in 21% of the 81 cases in which video evidence was provided. The arrest rate is slightly greater than i...
10 September 2020
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Over 3000 Words
Two years after reorganizing a police gun-enforcement unit to focus it on an evidence-based approach to preventing retaliatory shootings, Portland city leaders abolished the unit in a round of police budget cuts and f...
4 September 2020
New York, New York, United States
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800-1500 Words
One response to the violent unrest of the late 1960s was New York's installation of a network of swimming pools. The idea: give people a refreshing escape, and a way to cool – literally – the emotions that can lead to...
The Washington Post
Peter Hermann
19 August 2020
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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800-1500 Words
Violence interrupters conducted a dozen meetings over Zoom to negotiate a truce between two warring groups in a neighborhood that went from 11 shootings in 5 months to none for at least 99 days following the truce. To...
15 August 2020
Flint, Michigan, United States
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1500-3000 Words
A privately funded gun-buyback program is one of three core elements of the city of Flint's violence-reduction plan, but research has shown that such programs fail to make a dent in violent crime because the guns they...
13 August 2020
Los Angeles, California, United States
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800-1500 Words
The South Central Leadership Academy was started in Los Angeles by a college student who believes that gun violence survivors like him should lead the community response in finding solutions to violence. Its first yea...
The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia Media Network)
Samantha Melamed
8 August 2020
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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800-1500 Words
Philadelphia's PlayStreets program is a nearly 60-year-old program that began as a meal service during the summer "hungry season," when school lunches are not served, but has evolved into a summer camp on 300 city blo...
5 August 2020
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
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Over 3000 Words
In the first half of a six-month experiment, Baltimore's "wide-area surveillance" using video cameras flying above city streets to aid in crime investigations has led to only one arrest. The city's police commissioner...
3 August 2020
New York, New York, United States
Broadcast TV News
Under 3 Minutes
In the nation's largest public housing development, 696 Build Queensbridge uses the Cure Violence approach to mediating disputes before they turn violent. In 2017, its first year, there were no shootings in the develo...
31 July 2020
Oakland, California, United States
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Over 3000 Words
After two failed attempts, Oakland Ceasefire retooled its approach and since 2013 has been a significant factor in lowering homicides and nonfatal shootings. The program, used in various ways in many cities, identifie...
30 July 2020
New York, New York, United States
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800-1500 Words
In New York City, 14 organizations have more than 200 people performing street outreach to intervene in potentially deadly gun crimes in at least 20 of the city's most violent "hot spots." These "violence interrupters...
26 July 2020
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
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Over 3000 Words
Baltimore’s Safe Streets program, which uses a public-health approach to stopping the spread of community gun violence, mediated more than 1,800 conflicts in 2019 and is credited with preventing homicides altogether i...
20 July 2020
Allentown, Pennsylvania, United States
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800-1500 Words
An anti-violence program served as the spark for a “diaper drive” that delivered more than 163,000 donated diapers to 1,100 families as the coronavirus shutdown took hold, a charity drive enabled by a gang truce – and...
14 July 2020
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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1500-3000 Words
Nonviolence Chicago uses street-outreach workers to mediate disputes and connect residents of violence-prone neighborhoods to needed services. Its work, amounting to tens of thousands of contacts per year with people ...
6 July 2020
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
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800-1500 Words
A strategy to improve the intelligence that steers policing and violence-intervention efforts has worked in Chicago and shown promising early signs in Baltimore. But plans to expand Strategic Decision Support Centers ...
Afro News
Alexis Taylor
3 July 2020
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
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800-1500 Words
Two programs targeting two types of problems have been successful with one common element: interventions that provide needed social services rather than rely only on police responses. In Baltimore, shootings and homic...
26 June 2020
New York, New York, United States
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Over 3000 Words
On the front lines of the defund-police movement, groups like Elite Learners and Save Our Streets Bed-Stuy mediate conflicts in ways that have lowered violence without the involvement of police, thus reducing arrests ...
29 May 2020
Detroit, Michigan, United States
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800-1500 Words
Domestic abuse risks are on the rise, at a time of social isolation, economic disruption, and gun-buying, and so Wayne County, Michigan, court officials responded to the closing of their courthouses by allowing people...
27 May 2020
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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800-1500 Words
As Canada sees an increase in gun violence, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) are increasing their capacity to do ballistic imaging – an analysis that is able to potentially connect multiple crimes. Across the ...
26 May 2020
Jonesboro, Arkansas, United States
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Under 800 Words
After a 14-year-old girl in Jonesboro, Ark., accidentally shot and killed a friend, local activists distributed hundreds of fliers promoting safe gun storage strategies that have been proven to save lives. They gained...
17 March 2020
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Under 800 Words
Street outreach workers who work to reduce gun violence in Chicago are using the relationships they've built to now spread the word about the dangers of the coronavirus. “To the extent that we are the sort of conduits...
24 February 2020
Thibodaux, Louisiana, United States
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1500-3000 Words
Despite a strong gun-rights culture in the state, Louisiana law enforcement agencies use aggressive gun-confiscation laws and procedures to disarm domestic abusers as part of a wider array of protections for victims. ...
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