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  • In Venezuela, a Rum Maker Offers Gangsters a Life Outside of Crime

    October 16, 2021 |

    The New York Times |

    Multi-Media |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Venezuela, Sabaneta

    Rather than fleeing or fighting the twin threats to its business from criminal gangs and an aggressively anti-business government, the managers of Venezuelan rum-maker Ron Santa Teresa chose to make peace with both through social programs that have calmed what once was one of the violent country's most troubled towns. The company's Proyecto Alcatraz creates economic opportunity for gang members, providing them with job training and psychological counseling. It also courted favor with the socialist government with a housing initiative for the poor. Both programs have proved a boon for business.

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  • When Abusers Keep Their Guns

    October 09, 2021 |

    Reveal |

    Podcast |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    Starting in 1968, Congress has passed a series of laws, as have some states, stripping gun possession rights from people convicted of felonies or of domestic violence, or who are the subjects of restraining orders. But neither federal nor most state authorities do much to enforce the laws, relying instead on an honor system that often fails. Some places, like Washington's King County (Seattle), have done more to track who has guns they are barred from having. Thorough follow-up enables them to confiscate such guns in a process that can be less potentially violent than assumed.

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  • Red Flag Laws Are Saving Lives. They Could Save More.

    October 05, 2021 |

    Stateline |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States

    Nineteen states and the District of Columbia have enacted red-flag laws, most of them since the 2018 Parkland, Fla., school shooting. The laws, also called extreme risk protection order laws, allow law enforcement officials or family members to petition courts to confiscate guns from people deemed a danger to themselves or others. Use of the laws has grown and advocates say they have saved lives. But the growth has been slow, largely because of widespread ignorance of the laws among the public and even police. Some states have begun to fund education and training campaigns to rectify that.

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  • Is Denver's Psilocybin Decriminalization Having An Impact?

    October 04, 2021 |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Denver, Colorado

    Since Denver voters approved the decriminalization of the natural psychedelic drug psilocybin, the small number of arrests grew even smaller and one supporter of the policy sees growing interest in the therapeutic use of the drug. Even though supporters admit the policy has not made a big impact, it has influenced other cities and states to move in the same direction. Denver's policy was at the vanguard of what appears to be a pro-psychedlic movement in both legal and health policy.

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  • Frappée par une violente criminalité, une ville suédoise expérimente des solutions venant des États-Unis.

    October 01, 2021 |

    Made In Perpignan |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Sweden, Malmö

    La ville de Malmö, en Suède est frappée par une violente criminalité (65 fusillades en 2017). Elle expérimente Stop Shooting, une approche d’intervention contre la violence de groupe (GVI) qui a vu le jour à Boston dans les années 1990 et a connu le succès dans des villes comme Oakland, Chicago et Détroit. S'il est encore tôt pour attribuer à cette méthode la baisse du nombre de fusillades constatée en 2020, plusieurs acteurs témoignent d'un apaisement des tensions sur le terrain. Une cinquantaine de membres de gangs sont par ailleurs suivis pour en sortir.

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  • ‘I Don't Want to Hit My Children. I Don't Want to Hit Anybody.'

    October 01, 2021 |

    The New York Times |

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    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: England

    The Respect Phoneline started in the UK in 2004 to give anonymous callers, usually men, a way to seek help for their violent impulses. Rather than putting the burden for resolving domestic violence on survivors and on the punitive tools of the criminal justice system, the hotline approach recognizes that people prone to abusing others are frustrated and unhappy and want to change but need help to figure out how. While the aftermath of anonymous phone counseling can't be tracked, the author observed the process helping many men change their thinking. Similar hotlines have started in multiple places.

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  • Parson acknowledges new gun law needs to be revisited after police say it ties their hands

    September 28, 2021 |

    KMOV-TV |

    Broadcast TV News |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Missouri

    A new Missouri law, the Second Amendment Preservation Act, restricts the ability of local law enforcement officials to collaborate with federal officials in enforcing gun laws and investigating gun crimes. The law, which legislators meant as a statement of gun-rights principles, would fine police officers who violate it. Many local law enforcement officers withdrew from federal-local gun crime task forces and have otherwise stopped working with their federal counterparts. One department stopped submitting data to the federal ballistics database. Police say the law interferes with legitimate police work.

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  • Stopping Gun Violence, One Youth at a Time

    September 09, 2021 |

    The Imprint |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Salinas, California

    For more than 10 years, a pair of programs helped make major reductions in youth violence in Monterey County and the Salinas Valley by targeting the small number of people at highest risk of committing violence. That targeting led to a combination of law enforcement threats and social services help in the county's Group Violence Intervention program. When the money and enthusiasm for that dwindled, the strategy shifted to more carrot than stick, using the Advance Peace model of providing services to youth to put their lives on firmer footing.

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  • Why a Swedish city with a violent crime problem looked to US for solutions

    September 08, 2021 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: Sweden, Malmö

    Malmö's Sluta Skjut (Stop Shooting) program adopts a group violence intervention approach that has been used widely in the U.S. Gang members and others believed to be involved in street violence are summoned to "call-ins" to hear messages from law enforcement officials, community members, and social services providers. The overarching message: stop the violence, or go to prison; if you do stop, help is available to change your life. About 300 men have been called in, 49 of whom have accepted the offered help. Violence in the city has dropped since the program started.

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  • As homicides surged, Oakland's premier anti-violence program went quiet

    September 07, 2021 |

    San Francisco Chronicle |

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    Response Location: United States, Oakland, California

    Oakland Ceasefire's "delicate architecture" balancing law enforcement and community-based responses to gun violence, which seemed to have helped lower the city's gun violence by half since 2012, came crashing down during the pandemic. While arrests continued, the alternative offered to people at high risk of violence – an array of services to turn their lives around – withered with a virtual ban on in-person meetings. Violence in the city surged as years of progress unraveled. The program is working to rebuild, while questioning if it should distance itself more from the police.

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