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Community Violence
National newspapers and cable news channels had little interest in last weekend’s mass shooting in Brownsville, Brooklyn, where residents didn't receive many thoughts or prayers from the public.
How We Fix This
Here’s a blueprint for cities ready to get started.
Chicago
The private funders and outreach groups behind the “<399” plan are bringing unprecedented coordination to gun violence prevention in the city. But without more public dollars, they say, the effort may fall short.
Activists have long fought to make urban violence a priority for the movement. Now they are slowly securing more dollars for programs proven capable of saving lives.
Organizations working to reduce shootings in the state have long struggled to secure steady sources of funding. “We’re on the cusp of something really spectacular,” said one prevention worker.
Feds say nearly a third of firearms recovered in the state are homemade, unserialized, and untraceable.
Chicago father George Spivey lost his freedom to illegal firearm possession. Then a bullet took the son he was just getting to really know again. An excerpt from Alex Kotlowitz's An American Summer.
We talked to author Alex Kotlowitz about what’s changed, and what hasn’t, in his city over the past 30 years.
Shootings fell again in 2018. An expert unpacks the possible causes, and explains why the city still has a long way to go.
Philadelphia
Last year, a third of Philadelphia's shooting victims arrived at a trauma center in the back of a cop car. We asked other cities why they haven't embraced the practice.
In Philadelphia, police often race shooting victims to the hospital rather than wait for paramedics. Experts in trauma and policing say more cities should consider it.
Tapped out by its battles over lead-tainted water, the Michigan city is grappling with another public health crisis: It’s losing kids to guns at nearly twice the rate of Chicago and Detroit.
Young people in the city’s violent neighborhoods arm themselves for protection, new research shows, knowing that few shooters are caught by the police.
Several families are suing the state, arguing that unchecked gun violence is impairing children — and officials must do more to protect them.
New research contends that a surge in handgun production and possession propelled murder rates in American cites — until new restrictions on firearms reversed the trendlines.
