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Cure Violence has its roots in a 1999 organizing effort which included religious leaders, law enforcement officials, and academics. [1] In particular, epidemiologist Gary Slutkin, who was directing the Chicago Project for Violence Prevention at the University of Illinois, promoted a plan to prevent violence based on the previously successful Operation Ceasefire.
Chicago CRED is a non-profit organization based in Chicago. [1][2] The organization aims to prevent gun violence in the city by developing relationships and providing a presence within the community to defuse potential violence before it happens rather than by relying on police to intervene or respond. [1][3][4] The organization works by ...
CBS News Chicago is giving you the most accurate, up-to-date data on gun violence incidents from the Chicago Police Department and the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office.
August 15, 2024 at 9:29 PM. CHICAGO - Gun violence remains a tragic reality in Chicago, but a local nonprofit is striving to help communities heal and persuade young men to put down their weapons ...
Chicago saw a major rise in violent crime starting in the late 1960s. Murders in the city peaked in 1974, with 970 murders when the city's population was over three million, resulting in a murder rate of around 29 per 100,000, and again in 1992, with 943 murders when the city had fewer than three million people, resulting in a murder rate of 34 murders per 100,000 citizens.
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris speaks to attendees at the Everytown for Gun Safety conference on August 11, 2023 in Chicago, Illinois. The conference brings together thousands of activists ...
Texas (1894) McDonald v. City of Chicago, 561 U.S. 742 (2010), was a landmark [1] decision of the Supreme Court of the United States that found that the right of an individual to "keep and bear arms", as protected under the Second Amendment, is incorporated by the Fourteenth Amendment and is thereby enforceable against the states.
Over one recent weekend in Chicago, two children under the age of 10 became victims of the city's rampant gun violence. Mateo Zastro, 3, was shot and killed while in the car with his mother and ...