The Chicago PD’s Top Tech Officer Is Betting on Sensors and Smartphones to Help Curb Shootings
“These tools are not replacing people,” says Deputy Chief Jonathan Lewin, “but they improve our capacity to do our job."
Q & A
I Helped Tell 100 Stories About Gun Violence in Milwaukee. It Felt Like Witnessing a Mass Shooting in Slow Motion.
Precious Lives Senior Producer Emily Forman shares her experience covering the daily drumbeat of shootings in Wisconsin’s largest city.
I Studied 18 Years Worth of Domestic Violence Articles. Here’s What Journalists Can Do Better.
"Some couples fight and push or hit each other, but we need to differentiate between those situations and chronic, controlling violence."
This Sociologist Spent A Decade Studying the NRA — and Saw How It Paved The Way for Trump
Scott Meltzer says the group tells members they are 'crusaders’ fighting a corrupt elite class to make America great again.
A Paramedic Describes the Trauma of Treating Gunshot Victims in an Increasingly Violent City
Justin Duckett opens up about “the most barbaric” form of emergency medicine.
How Violence Prevention Programs Went From a ‘Radical Idea’ to Believable Goal
Leading criminologist David Weisburd says researchers found strong evidence that some policing strategies can lower crime.
Some of Trump’s ‘Second Amendment People’ Already Believe They Have the Right to Fight Government Tyranny with Guns
Duke constitutional law professor Darrell Miller explains "insurrectionist theory."
Violent Crime Arrests Are Way Down for Students In This Innovative Chicago Program
A "Becoming a Man" counselor on how he helps kids persevere in a city where shootings are everyday occurrences.
What One New Yorker Writer Learned about Illegal Guns and Police Conduct
Embedding with the Newark Police Department for a new "Frontline" documentary, Jelani Cobb met officers desperate to get guns off the street — and some who went too far.
Baltimore Teens Find a Path Away from Violence Through ‘Identity Projects’
A pair of sociologists explain how nurturing kids' passions — whether for anime, customizing cars, or raising pigeons — has the power to reduce illegal behaviors.
A School Security Expert on Why Giving Guards AR-15s Isn’t the Best Way to Protect Students
A Colorado district bought 10 military-style guns. They would be better off focusing on “environmental design,” John White says.
Through Art, A Performer Heals Traumatized Youth from Pittsburgh’s Troubled Suburbs
It took a gruesome mass shooting to draw attention to the city's bordering towns, but Vanessa German has been trying to help kids in the gun violence-riddled area for years.