Title
& Description
News Outlet
& Journalist
Date
& Location
MEDIA TYPE
& LENGTH
8 September 2021
Malmö, Sweden
Text
800-1500 Words
Malmö's Sluta Skjut (Stop Shooting) program adopts a group violence intervention approach that has been used widely in the U.S. Gang members and others believed to be involved in street violence are summoned to "call-...
7 September 2021
Oakland, California, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Oakland Ceasefire's "delicate architecture" balancing law enforcement and community-based responses to gun violence, which seemed to have helped lower the city's gun violence by half since 2012, came crashing down dur...
1 September 2021
Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Greensboro's version of the Cure Violence program, called Gate City Coalition, has helped reduce homicides nearly to zero in the two neighborhoods where it operates. At a time of escalated gun violence, the Cure Viole...
5 August 2021
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Philadelphia Youth Sentencing & Reentry Project started an intergenerational healing circle in 2020 that brought together young men with older men who served decades in prison, after being sentenced as youth. As a for...
4 August 2021
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Broadcast TV Talk Show
3-5 Minutes
Eddie Bocanegra of READI Chicago describes his group's gun-violence-prevention model. Data from police and hospitals, plus community intelligence, identify those people most at risk of committing or being victimized b...
30 July 2021
Chester, Pennsylvania, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Barely half a year after creating the Partnerships for Safe Neighborhoods, the Delaware County district attorney's office and Chester police have seen a sharp drop in shootings. While multiple factors may affect the v...
21 July 2021
California, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
Two decades ago, California became the first state to create a system to track and seize guns from people no longer legally permitted to possess a gun. Thousands of guns have been seized. But the database of gun owner...
14 July 2021
Richmond, Virginia, United States
Broadcast TV News
3-5 Minutes
Bridging the Gap is a violence prevention program at Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center that emphasizes treating more than the physical wounds of gunshot victims. Starting in the hospital and continuing a...
26 June 2021
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
South Baltimore's Cherry Hill neighborhood enjoyed its third homicide-free year since the violence intervention program Safe Streets began operation. While a formal evaluation of the program's nine neighborhood sites ...
21 June 2021
New York, New York, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Stand Up to Violence is the only street-outreach gun-violence-prevention program in New York that centers its work in hospitals. Street outreach is a policing alternative that uses former gang members and formerly inc...
18 June 2021
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
In the Boston area, the Roca organization intervenes before young men commit violence. Its "relentless outreach" approach is based on cognitive behavioral therapy, an approach that helps people recognize and change th...
10 June 2021
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Baltimore's Roca program uses cognitive behavioral therapy, and patience and persistence, to work at changing the thinking of young people at high risk of committing or suffering gun violence. Counselors help their cl...
31 May 2021
St. Louis, Missouri, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
St. Louis was one of the first cities to adopt ShotSpotter technology, which uses a network of microphones, software, and human monitors to detect and analyze gunshot sounds. The detection system summoned police more ...
NPR
Katia Riddle
29 May 2021
Portland, Oregon, United States
Radio
3-5 Minutes
The boom in green-energy spending and government grants fuels the work of Leaders Before Legends, a Portland startup that lines up well-paying jobs installing solar panels and the like. The jobs go to people formerly ...
28 May 2021
Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
Broadcast TV News
Under 3 Minutes
When young people with criminal records get shot in Albuquerque, they may get visited by the police department's Violence Intervention Program: cops and counselors urging the victims to resist the impulse to retaliate...
26 May 2021
St. Louis, Missouri, United States
Broadcast TV News
Under 3 Minutes
While homicides in St. Louis in the first part of 2021 increased over already-high numbers in recent years, three neighborhoods served by a new Cure Violence program showed significant decreases in homicides, assaults...
26 May 2021
St. Louis, Missouri, United States
Text
Under 800 Words
In the parts of two neighborhoods where the violence-intervention program Cure Violence has been active since June 2020, and a third where it has been operating since January, more than 300 potentially violent inciden...
20 May 2021
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Podcast
Over 15 Minutes
Philadelphia police fail to solve most of the city's growing number of homicides, in part because of the no-snitching street code, a byproduct of the community's lack of trust in police. But the streets do sometimes t...
20 May 2021
New York, New York, United States
Multi-Media
1500-3000 Words
Saturday Night Lights is run by the DA’s office and aims to reduce gun violence by providing organized sports for school-aged kids on weekend nights, when crime often goes up. Active in 20 locations across the city, S...
13 May 2021
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Podcast
Over 15 Minutes
In Philadelphia, public agencies and funding serve homicide victims' families. But grassroots groups target the enormous gaps in services for the survivors of gun violence, people whose unaddressed needs – medical, fi...
10 May 2021
Camden, New Jersey, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
For a city like Philadelphia, with rising violence and a lack of community trust in the police, Camden and Newark serve as examples of the positive changes that come about when outside forces impose the kinds of refor...
6 May 2021
Sacramento, California, United States
Radio Talk Show
5-15 Minutes
Advance Peace mentors young people at risk of committing or suffering gun violence, guiding them through a "life map" process to exit street life and set goals for a safer, healthier future. The program, which started...
29 April 2021
Malmö, Sweden
Text
1500-3000 Words
When drug-gang violence reached intolerable levels in Malmö in 2017, Swedish crime prevention officials traveled to New York for tips. There they learned about a gang violence intervention strategy in which gang membe...
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