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Mass Shooting
Katherine Schweit thinks people don’t realize how much power they have to prevent mass shootings.
Active Shooting
Gun rampages do more than kill and injure. They also damage Americans’ communal life. Yale sociologist Vida Bajc analyzes the aftershocks.
Q & A
Reverend Deanna Hollas is being touted as the country’s first minister of gun violence prevention. "We’re called to care about everybody and every child," she said.
After the shooting, Frank DeAngelis made a vow to rebuild his school. Now he’s coaching administrators who have endured tragedies of their own.
How We Fix This
To curb homicides, Eric Jones started by having the Stockton, California PD focus on repairing its relationship with residents. “More than ever, I see trust in police connected to reducing violent crime.”
Free to Shoot Again
Professor David Kennedy on the link between effective investigations and community trust.
Chicago
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.
National Rifle Association
Tamika Mallory says the gun group is “waging war against protesters.”
Andrew Boss leads a 17-person task force based in the Bronx.
But a leading expert on the politics of guns still sees constraints to the group’s most radical policy goals.
“These tools are not replacing people,” says Deputy Chief Jonathan Lewin, “but they improve our capacity to do our job."
Precious Lives Senior Producer Emily Forman shares her experience covering the daily drumbeat of shootings in Wisconsin’s largest city.
Commentary
"Some couples fight and push or hit each other, but we need to differentiate between those situations and chronic, controlling violence."
Scott Meltzer says the group tells members they are 'crusaders’ fighting a corrupt elite class to make America great again.
