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27 December 2020
Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
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800-1500 Words
Albuquerque police make house calls to deliver a carrot-and-stick message to people at high risk of getting shot or shooting others. The Violence Intervention Program's "custom notifications" target people based on th...
14 December 2020
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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1500-3000 Words
The House of Umoja in West Philadelphia, created in the late 1960s in response to high rates of gang violence, succeeded in helping thousands of young men through a residential treatment program, mediating disputes pe...
The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia Media Network)
Samantha Melamed
2 December 2020
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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1500-3000 Words
PowerCorpsPHL and Mural Arts' Guild have notched impressive results in job placements of young people with criminal records. The programs' employment training, paid apprenticeships, and art therapy classes have all be...
1 December 2020
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
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800-1500 Words
In the 1990s and again in 2014, when Baltimore used a strategy called focused deterrence to reduce street violence, it showed initial promise but then failed. Those failures can be tied to how the program was managed,...
1 December 2020
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
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Over 3000 Words
When Baltimore police shifted tactics starting in 2007, away from aggressive street stops aimed at arresting gun carriers toward regulating the supply of street guns at their sources, the city's murder rate plunged. B...
28 November 2020
Washington, United States
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Over 3000 Words
An alliance between health professionals and gun owners has increased suicide-prevention education and training through multiple initiatives in many states. Groups like Washington’s Safer Homes and Forefront Suicide P...
17 November 2020
United States
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1500-3000 Words
A public-education campaign to enlist gun owners in suicide prevention work by first informing them of the problem's scope has spread to programs in 21 states. Although the campaign's ultimate effects on suicide rates...
14 November 2020
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
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1500-3000 Words
The Violence Intervention Program at the University of Maryland Medical Center's Shock Trauma Center helps people meet basic needs after they have suffered a gunshot injury. Along with clothing, transportation voucher...
13 November 2020
Denver, Colorado, United States
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800-1500 Words
By creating a centralized team of detectives to focus on non-fatal shootings, Denver police improved their rate of solving such crimes from 39% in 2019 to 65% in the program's first seven months. The team of six detec...
23 October 2020
Maryland, United States
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1500-3000 Words
Two years after Maryland adopted a law allowing for court orders denying gun access to people at high risk of harming themselves or others, police and the public have invoked the law far more often than in most states...
14 October 2020
Thibodaux, Louisiana, United States
Broadcast TV News
3-5 Minutes
In southern Louisiana's Lafourche Parish, sheriff's deputy Valerie Martinez Jordan used her history as a domestic violence victim to create a countywide program to legally seize the guns of people convicted of domesti...
12 October 2020
Durham, North Carolina, United States
Radio
3-5 Minutes
The nationwide surge in gun violence during the pandemic has forced support groups for grieving survivors to persevere in their work using different tools and strategies in a process that depends on intimate forms of ...
8 October 2020
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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1500-3000 Words
Chicago's CRED program (Create Real Economic Destiny) blends effective violence-intervention strategies with economic empowerment, life coaching, therapy, and education to provide the kind of opportunity so often lack...
6 October 2020
Virginia, United States
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1500-3000 Words
Strong local opposition to Virginia's new red-flag law and other gun-control measures did not dissuade some local law enforcement agencies from using the law for its intended purpose: to temporarily confiscate the gun...
The Boston Globe
Jasmine Nicole Olivier
2 October 2020
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Under 800 Words
Over the four decades that a major Boston public housing development was run by a tenant management corporation (TMC), residents' safety and relations with police improved in ways that serve as lessons today as gun vi...
29 September 2020
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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1500-3000 Words
As Chicago touts the latest in a series of anti-violence police units, a look back at the Violence Reduction Initiative launched in 2012 teaches lessons about how a program that claims credit for falling violence stil...
29 September 2020
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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800-1500 Words
Crime-tracking mobile apps give millions of Brazilians crowdsourced data on urban violence, alerting people to dangerous places and filling gaps in government data on shootings, robberies, and other risks. But apps su...
29 September 2020
Craig, Colorado, United States
Radio
5-15 Minutes
"Voluntary storage" of guns is a growing movement that seeks to reduce gun suicides while avoiding political clashes with gun-rights advocates by instead promoting safety without government coercion. The Means Matter ...
29 September 2020
Utah, United States
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800-1500 Words
Concerned about the high numbers of suicides in the state, Utah's local government introduced a three-pronged approach to preventing further suicides that hinged on targeting gun owners and Second Amendment activists....
28 September 2020
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Broadcast TV News
5-15 Minutes
Outreach workers with CRED (Create Real Economic Destiny) in Chicago's Roseland neighborhood are paid under a city grant to de-escalate and mediate disputes among the same gangs that some of the workers once belonged ...
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...
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