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What To Know Today Fighting violence by fixing houses. In 1995, Philadelphia unveiled a program to give homeowners in primarily low-income minority neighborhoods up to $20,000 for structural home repairs. A new study in JAMA Network…
What To Know Today NEW from THE TRACE: The problem with Chicago’s gang-centric gun violence narrative. For years, city leaders have pushed the idea that gangs are the chief drivers of shootings and other violence in the city. But its…
What To Know Today “Now is the time”: CDC director vows to go all in on gun violence research. “We haven’t spent the time, energy, and frankly the resources to understand this problem because it’s been so divided,” Dr. Rochelle…
What To Know Today Citing inaction, advocacy groups urge Biden to launch an executive office for gun violence prevention. In an open letter, a coalition of gun reform groups slammed the steps taken by the president…
What To Know Today Michigan man gets six years in first sentencing of plot to kidnap governor. Ty Garbin, 25, is the only one of 14 people charged in federal and state courts to have pleaded…
What To Know Today NEW from THE TRACE: How climate change could worsen gun violence. Daniel Semenza, a criminologist at Rutgers University–Camden, has spent years studying the connection between public health disparities and violence. So when he recently read the…
What To Know Today Armed protests tick up as the presence of guns is linked to a higher chance of violence. Events where demonstrators carried firearms were about six times more likely than unarmed demonstrations to be violent, according to…
What To Know Today NEW from THE TRACE: Mexico looks to bypass U.S. gun companies’ special legal Immunity. On August 4, the Mexican government sued several major gunmakers and distributors in the United States, alleging that…
What To Know Today Community-focused solutions for gun violence. A number of recent stories point to potential bright spots or definitive good news in alleviating the country’s crisis. They include: Graduation day for the latest cohort of Chicago CRED participants.
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What To Know Today NEW from THE TRACE: Hospital-based intervention can save lives. A growing movement is betting on Medicaid to fund it. The violence prevention model connects community outreach workers with violent crime victims while they’re still in the…
What To Know Today New York AG says the NRA’s “evasion of accountability” has “continued unabated.” In a new amended complaint reaffirming her intent to dissolve the National Rifle Association, Attorney General Letitia James alleges that…
What To Know Today Away from the headlines, police shootings take their toll in rural communities. The Marshall Project and the Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting analyzed data from The Washington Post’s…
What To Know Today Hospital visits by children with gun injuries rose by almost 40 percent in 2020. That’s according to a new study published in the journal Pediatrics, which found there were more shooting-related patients…
What To Know Today Homeland Security points to “increasing but modest” threat of violence from election conspiracists. The agency’s Office of Intelligence and Analysis issued the warning to federal, state, and local officials about “activity online…
What To Know Today NEW from THE TRACE: Biden’s pistol brace rule would put pressure on an already strained ATF division. In June, three months after the popular gun accessory was used in a mass shooting in Boulder, Colorado,…