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The release of video this week of a Chicago police officer fatally shooting a man who was armed with a knife during a domestic disturbance call has refocused attention on the need for innovative ...
Four people were fatally shot in a community outside Chicago on Sunday in what suburban officials described as a “domestic-related shooting.” The village of roughly 55,000 people is about 30 ...
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Khan was born in 1993 and was a first-generation child of Pakistani Muslim immigrants. [1] [4] [13] Khan was born to Haider Farooq Khan and Shazia Khan. [4]Her hometown was Chattanooga, Tennessee [3] where she graduated from the Chattanooga School for the Arts & Sciences. [3]
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.
Quintonio LeGrier was 19 years old, born on Chicago's South Side and raised by a foster mother from the age of five. On the morning of December 26, 2015, he argued with his biological father and mother concerning his withdrawal from Northern Illinois University [4] where he was a student in its College of Engineering in DeKalb, Illinois. [4]
Community violence intervention aims to stop crime before it happens. Trained specialists establish relationships with people at the highest risk of being victims or perpetrators of violence.
The Illinois Coalition Against Domestic Violence (ICADV) is a non-profit organization of member organizations throughout Illinois that provide services for persons experiencing domestic violence. [3] ICADV also works with health providers, community groups, religious groups, criminal justice agencies, and federal and state offices to supply ...