Urban Violence

Killing Me Softly, as I Stand in Your Ground: Victim-Profiling in Jamaica

Luis Perez-Simon | Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: Police Brutality, Jamaica, Extrajudicial Killings, Urban Violence, Trayvon Martin, Nikita Cameron, Jamaica Police, Jamaica Constabulary Force, Jcf, World News
Luis Perez-Simon

Policing is not easy. It is also dangerous. Besides more education and counseling, direct accountability and permanent oversight are needed in order to change a one-size-fits-all type of police mentality when it comes to people.

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Urban Violence Is a National Crisis

Gloria Bonilla Santiago | Posted 02.27.2012

Read More: Gun Violence, Education, Police, Violence, Camden New Jersey, Safe Schools, Camden Violence, Urban Violence, School Safety, Crime News
Gloria Bonilla Santiago

Violence and crime are happening in schools in cities like Camden and other poor urban centers throughout the country. Our families have come together to object the violence in our city.

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Origins: The Social Roots of New York City Hip Hop Culture (PHOTOS)

David Maurice Smith | Posted 12.31.2011

Read More: Harlem, Manhattan, Photography, Poverty, Queens, Brooklyn, Bronx, Music, Blog, Breakdancing, Slidefreestyle, Exposure, New York, Hip Hop, Urban Violence, Culture News
David Maurice Smith

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Fighting Violence at the Intersection of Old and New Harlem

Arva Rice | Posted 11.08.2011

Read More: Harlem, Violence, New York Urban League, New York City, Gun Violence, Urban Violence, Guns, Ny Impact, New York News
Arva Rice

Somewhere between the new and old Harlem, children need to walk to school knowing they are safe, and walk the halls from class to class without fear.

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Second Acts

Alex Kotlowitz | Posted 10.08.2011

Read More: There Are No Children Here, The Interrupters, Steve James, Urban Violence, The Interrupters Documentary, Youth Urban Violence Documentary, Culture News
Alex Kotlowitz

There's a moment in The Interrupters when Cobe Williams, a man who works for the Chicago anti-violence organization CeaseFire, gets a call from someone he'd met in the County Jail a number of years back.

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It's Time For a New Approach to Violence

Jakada Imani | Posted 10.04.2011

Read More: Gun Violence, Shootings, Urban Violence, California Youth Violence, Urban Gun Violence, Youth Violence California, Oakland Violence, Youth Violence Prevention, Youth Urban Violence, Youth Violence California Cities, San Francisco News
Jakada Imani

It is rare that young people who witness violence in our cities are counseled. Too often the coping mechanisms that youth learn in the streets only fuel the cycle of violence.

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Yes We Can Reduce Urban Violence (Part I)

Scott Harshbarger | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Boston, Safe Neighborhoods Legislation, Crime, Gang Violence, Violence, Safe Neighborhood Initiative, Urban Violence, Politics News
Scott Harshbarger

Urban violence is, again, being viewed by the public, the media, and by far too many of our leaders as sad but inevitable realities of life in certain urban neighborhoods. Actually though, it doesn't have to be inevitable at all.

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How Sports Can Help End Violence

Karl Costello | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dashaun Davy, Glen Kozlowski, Youth Violence, Criminal Justice, Derrion Albert, Chicago School Violence, Urban Violence, Chicago News
Karl Costello

The opportunities sports provides are too often squandered by individuals and institutions that care so little for youth that their environment allows for the murder of a Derrion Albert.

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A Hole in the Night

Robert Koehler | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Restorative Justice, Peace, Urban Violence, Crime, Chicago, Derrion Albert, Chicago School Violence, Criminal Justice, Chicago News
Robert Koehler

I remember big, white-teeth grins, laughter, especially from the kid in the white hoodie. He was laughing as he swung and connected with my cheekbone and I went down.

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In Memory of Spc. Nicholas Peters and the Other Boys of Kelly Park

Murray Waas | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: War With Iraq, Red Sox, Somerville, Gun Violence, Violence, Robert Kennedy, Urban Violence, Military Fatalities, Politics News
Murray Waas

Nick served in Iraq and came home in one piece while so many of his friends were not so fortunate. He survived the war but not the peace.

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Young People Fight to Push Urban Violence to the Top of Obama's Agenda

Heather Box | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Homicide, Milwaukee, Youth Promise Act, Homicide Rate, Urban Violence, Youth Urban Violence, Youth Homicide Rate, Politics News
Heather Box

Young people represent 62.5 percent of all murder victims. And for young people of color, the statistics tell an even grimmer story.

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Chance of Death by Street Violence Depends on Where You Live: Can Better Data and Information Unlock the Deadly Pattern?

Mari Gallagher | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gun Violence, Chicago Gun Violence, Daley Gun Violence, Poverty, Gran Torino, Chicago Violence, Chicago Street Violence, Dantrell Davis, Urban Violence, Gangs, Chicago News
Mari Gallagher

There has been no clear-cut formula for systematically predicting and curtailing the violent activity that plagues Chicago and other cities. Can that change?

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