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All posts tagged "targeting gun violence project"
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1.8KNewsMacon’s School-justice Partnership Vulnerable To Pandemic Effects, Change In Leadership
Bibb County District Attorney David Cooke first heard about school-justice partnerships five years ago on the other side of the country, at...
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1.5KGuest Opinion EssayOur Maryland Coalition Supports Evidence-based Programs For Black, Brown Communities
Gun violence in Maryland disproportionately impacts young Black and brown men and, increasingly, women. Marylanders to Prevent Gun Violence has led the...
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1.5KGuest Opinion EssayGun Violence Can Be Reduced With Incremental Changes, As With Car Safety
Flash forward to today. Death by gun violence has surpassed motor vehicle deaths nationwide, and mass shootings are an everyday occurrence. There...
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1.4KGuest Opinion EssayFor Community Policing to Work, We Need Investment, Stronger Partnerships
Since COVID-19 hit, communities like New York City's East Harlem have been dealing with multiple diseases: a deadly virus, the ongoing effects...
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2.2KGuest Opinion EssayWe Know What Truly Works for Gun Violence Prevention and Invest In It
ESTONES TENKA/SHUTTERSTOCK More than 115,000 Americans will be shot and 40,000 will die from gun violence this year alone — just like...
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1.5KGuest Opinion EssayPublic Health Approach Can Help Prevent Firearm Injury, Death In Youth
September usually marks the return to school, with teachers setting up classrooms and youth headed off on a new year of learning...
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1.9KGuest Opinion EssayGun Industry Must Be Held Accountable for Gun Violence
The national debate about gun violence in the United States generally falls into familiar patterns. We express shock and horror at acts...
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1.3KGuest Opinion EssayWhat Surge in Juvenile Homicide Means And What To Do About It
The U.S. Department of Justice recently released two statistical reports that appear to stand in contrast. A report released in June of...
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1.8KNewsAlabama Police Chief Discusses Whether Policing Can Be Safer For Officers, Communities
When Marcus Wood was a kid, he said, the neighborhood police hosted barbecues for his community, handing out sticker badges, teaching him...
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3.6KNewsAlabama Activists Say Defunding Police Rooted In Legacy Of Southern Organizing
Black freedom fighters in Alabama once changed this country. Speaking onstage in Kelly Ingram Park on Juneteenth, Celestine Hood, a woman who...
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2.1KGuest Opinion EssayTime to Invest In Our Communities, Proven Solutions to Gun Violence
Three months ago, the entire nation was rocked by the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police. In the weeks since his...
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1.7KNewsGeorgia Town Can’t Save Money By Reducing Gun Violence Due to Budget Woes
MACON, Georgia — Carl Fambro says Macon’s West Macon neighborhood has been left behind. Anchor businesses at its shopping centers — like...
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2.4KFrom the BureausNew York City’s Public Advocate Unveils Proposal to End Gun Violence
NEW YORK — Jumaane Williams, New York City’s public advocate, announced his proposal for curbing gun violence in the five boroughs after...
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5.5KNewsJacksonville activist groups work together on police reform
►►►Scroll down for slideshow JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — It was drizzling steadily on June 6 when one of the largest civil rights protests...
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2.4KGuest Opinion EssayAdvance Peace Change Agents Already Interrupting Epidemics Every Day in Neighborhood
Fresh shell casings are still scattered in the streets. Multiple sets of dice are still rolling like rocks in an avalanche. Bottles...
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1.8KGuest Opinion EssayWe Need to Take Care of Each Other After COVID-19 Too
The Office of Neighborhood Safety (ONS) in Richmond, Calif., is a non-law enforcement governmental agency whose sole purpose is to reduce gun...
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1.8KNewsStudies Show That Violence Prevention Saves Cities Money — Lots of Money
In the 18 years Paul Tutwiler has led the Northwest Jacksonville Community Development Corporation in Florida, the organization has tried a variety...
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2.7KNewsRole of Guns Not Tracked For LGBT Community
Today, Synthia Roy works at a tattoo parlor in Jacksonville, Fla., she does set design and makeup for horror films and recently...
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2.0KGuest Opinion EssayGun Violence Prevention Is Essential, Especially During Coronavirus
Teens On Target (TNT) is a leadership development program at Youth ALIVE!, Oakland, Calif.’s anchor agency for violence prevention, intervention and healing....
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1.9KNewsFor Kids Unsafe at Home, School Closure Increases Risk For Trauma
In January, Sharral Dean, a therapist at the Family Counseling Center of Central Georgia, was seeing about 30 young clients a week....
