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The New York Times
4 September 2020
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New York, New York, United States
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 violence. No solid evidence proves a causal effect, but serious crime in the city dropped significantly and immediately. In 2020, after the pandemic closed all city pools until late July and then only some reopened, the city experienced a surge in gun violence. Says one sociologist: "There will be problems" when people are cooped up without recreation options.
http://www.civilbeat.com/2015/08/study-low-injury-rate-shows-gun-control-laws-work
Chad Blair
Honolulu Civil Beat
19 August 2015
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Hawaii is one of the states with strongest gun laws and lowest gun death rates. A study found that states with stricter gun control laws, ammo regulation, background checks, and reporting of lost firearms had the lowest injury rates.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/02/world/can-legislation-prevent-mass-shootings
Euan McKirdy
Paul Armstrong
CNN
2 October 2015
Broadcast TV News / 5-15 Minutes
The U.S. continues to experience mass shootings, and many Americans deny that tightening gun laws will help. However, countries like Australia, the United Kingdom, Finland, and Norway have reduced gun violence through stricter regulations.
http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/black-wounds-matter
Sarah Stillman
The New Yorker
15 October 2015
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Little attention is given to black men who are victims of gun violence but survive and need help. An organization in California is mobilizing all gun-violence victims to voice their opinion on criminal justice reform and support for victims.
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/11/20/colombias-data-driven-fight-against-crime
Tina Rosenberg
The New York Times
20 November 2014
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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.
http://www.trentonian.com/general-news/20151018/with-gun-violence-a-regular-occurrence-in-trenton-could-hospital-based-intervention-benefit-city
Penny Ray
The Trentonian
18 October 2015
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The city of Trenton is trying to reduce gun violence. In Philadelphia, the Healing Hurt People is a hospital-based violence intervention program that employs trauma counselors to help patients suffering from gun violence.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/ct-guns-lyons-ordinance-dawn-turner-20151028-column.html
Dawn M. Turner
Chicago Tribune
28 October 2015
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Many guns recovered from crimes in Chicago, were purchased in its suburbs. A Chicago coalition of anti-violence activists used this to file a lawsuit against Lyons, leading to stricter gun laws in the town.
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/10/how-australia-and-britain-tackled-gun-violence.html#
Margaret Hartmann
New York Magazine
2 October 2015
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The U.S. continues to resist restrictive gun laws. Australia and Britain significantly decreased mass shootings through the banning of certain guns, more restrictive permits, buyback programs, and a national firearms registration system.
http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/3/12/a-confused-war-reducing-gun-violence-part-1.html
Rachel Waldholz
Mariel Carr
Al Jazeera
12 March 2015
Video / 5-15 Minutes
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.
http://news.yahoo.com/battling-america-s-other-ptsd-crisis-194336514.html?soc_src=mail&soc_trk=ma
Tina Rosenberg
Yahoo! News
6 March 2015
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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.
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/interrupting-violence-brooklyn
Elissa Curtis
Trymaine Lee
MSNBC
8 April 2014
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In Brooklyn's Crown Heights neighborhood, an organization called Save Our Streets Crown Heights (S.O.S.) is taking steps to disrupt violence. The organization is modeled after Chicago's violence interrupters, which employ people from the neighborhood to connect with those most at-risk and disrupt conflicts and retalitory violence.
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