Chicago’s homicide rate decreases for the third straight year
Chicago ended 2019 with 490 murders, according to the UChicago Crime Lab (final numbers will be determined after an FBI audit), about 13% lower than 2018's total of 564 and roughly 35% fewer than 2016, when Chicago reported its highest number of homicides in two decades: 756. “These historic reductions in citywide crime are the direct result
Chicago police applaud community’s help in three recent shootings of innocent bystanders in Little Village. ‘We are fed up,’ one mother says.
CPD spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said that police had never before seen "this level of cooperation and involvement” from Little Village residents with gang shootings. CP4P outreach worker Benny Estrada is quoted, but the article doesn’t mention CP4P by name. Read more: Chicago Tribune
Editorial: Chicago’s top cop on police and community: ‘We have a crisis of trust.’
Interim Police Supt. Charlie Beck says CPD is committed to enhancing collaboration with community groups and that he sees promise in the PSPC-supported neighborhood policing initiative being trialed on the West Side. Read more: Chicago Tribune
Lawsuit’s novel approach: State is responsible for children ‘disabled’ by gun violence
An NBC News report discusses the class-action lawsuit filed on behalf of a Chicago child and hundreds of other children against the State of Illinois. Read more: NBC News
Peace Fellows Program Brings Anti-Violence Leaders Together
Starting in 2015, a year when Chicago was reeling from the growing epidemic of gunfire, Dr. Sokoni Karanja and a group of his friends and neighbors wanted to do something about the violence. After talking to police and public officials, they decided to focus their attention on one of the most violent swaths in the city. The
Philadelphia has a gun violence epidemic. What if it were treated like any other contagious disease?
Experts are increasingly fond of saying that gun violence should be treated like a public health problem, like a contagious disease that will infect ever more people unless preventive measures are taken. But what exactly does it mean to take a public health approach to gun violence? CureViolence tries to change how Philadelphians view violence prevention. Philadelphia