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Biden Called on States to Create Violence Prevention Offices. Maryland Answered.
In Baltimore, an RV painted in vibrant blues and greens and branded with the words “Healing In Community” serves as the mobile headquarters for a roving team of violence interrupters and crisis...
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New Jersey Ditched Cash Bail. Research Shows the Reform Didn’t Increase...
In 2012, more than 1,500 people sat in New Jersey jails because they didn’t have, at most, $2,500 to pay bail. Those 1,500-odd people — about 12 percent of all people jailed in the Garden State that...
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New York Lawmakers Push to Fund Overlooked School-Based Violence Prevention...
Every week during the school year, in classrooms across New York City, students in neighborhoods hit hardest by gun violence gather to tackle misconceptions about guns and gun carrying, improve their...
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Surgeon General Vivek Murthy Explains His Historic Warning About Gun Violence
One week ago, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy took the unprecedented step of issuing an advisory on gun violence, marking the first time his office has addressed the issue in such depth. Murthy’s...
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Gun Violence Prevention Services Can’t Reach Everyone. Telehealth Could Help.
At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Chuka Emezue watched as a few men in the domestic violence intervention program he directed struggled to stay awake or were distracted in remote video calls....
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Are These Gun Safety Laws Helping to Reduce Violence?
It’s becoming increasingly clear that Americans have, on the whole, been safer from violence so far this year than any other since before the pandemic. There were fewer homicides and domestic...
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How Community Groups in Philadelphia Use Horses to Keep Young People Safe
Kareem Rosser is a world-class polo player and decorated intercollegiate champ. He’s modeled for Polo Ralph Lauren, earned a degree in economics from Colorado State University, and traveled to almost...
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How Law Enforcement ‘Brain Trusts’ Are Helping Tackle Gun Violence
When a gun homicide or a shooting goes unsolved, it doesn’t just leave a person on the street who could go on to hurt other people. It leaves families and loved ones in limbo, and deepens community...
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Biden Is Deploying a ‘Whole-of-Government’ Approach to Gun Violence Prevention
A little over a year ago, President Joe Biden established the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention. At the time of the office’s creation, Biden said his goal was to create a hub for a...
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The White House’s Medicaid Plan Could Be ‘Transformational’ for Gun Violence...
About a month ago, on September 26, President Joe Biden and the White House announced a bevy of executive actions intended to help prevent gun violence. We covered those in brief a few weeks ago, but...
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