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  • They answer the call when people are in crisis

    April 29, 2021 |

    City Newspaper (Rochester) |

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    Response Location: United States, Rochester, New York

    Following the death of Daniel Prude in Rochester police custody, the city consulted with the operators of Eugene's CAHOOTS program to craft its own version of a team of unarmed responders to help resolve mental health or substance abuse crises without the use of violence. Rochester's Person In Crisis (PIC) team has averaged about 21 calls per day since January. All calls are made with the police in tandem, unlike CAHOOTS' model. Some violent incidents in Rochester have raised questions about PIC's ability to defuse conflict. But the operators say they have begun to make a positive difference.

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  • The detection dogs tracking poachers and Covid-19

    April 27, 2021 |

    BBC |

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    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: Tanzania

    Detection dogs and their handlers can be trained to sniff out any number of problems. In eastern Africa, the Canines for Conservation project has deployed dogs to search for poachers and illegally harvested wildlife products. By tracking poachers from the scenes of illegal kills and finding ivory and rhino horns stashed in warehouses and shipping containers far more efficiently than X-ray methods, the project has contributed to nearly 400 product seizures, higher conviction rates, and elimination of elephant poaching in parts of Kenya. The next frontier being tested: detecting COVID-19 infections.

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  • How Kenya turned the tide against ivory poachers

    April 27, 2021 |

    Financial Times |

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    Response Location: Kenya, Nanyuki

    More and more park rangers, judges, prosecutors, and wildlife investigators are working together to stop poaching in Kenya. Through training and a new app that allows all parties to track wild animals in a protected conservation area, the number of poaching cases has decreased from 449 creatures killed illegally in 2021 to 93 in 2018. The number of court cases have also decreased in recent years.

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  • What Dallas can learn from Oakland's experience in lowering violent crime

    April 25, 2021 |

    Dallas Morning News |

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    Response Location: United States, Oakland, California

    The "striking resemblance" between the gun violence problems of Oakland in 2012 and Dallas in 2020 argue in favor of Dallas' adoption of Oakland's Operation Ceasefire approach to violence reduction. By using a "focused deterrence" strategy of targeting people most at risk of committing or suffering violence, and offering services to change their lives' trajectory, Oakland saw six consecutive years of violence reductions, cutting gun violence rates in half. The program was disrupted by the pandemic, but its reliance on community resources and not just law enforcement is seen as a lasting effect.

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  • Rababben Birni (2): Addini Ya Raba Mazauna Jos, Kwallon Kafa Tana Hadasu

    April 24, 2021 |

    HumAngle |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Jos, Plateau State

    Tare da yan wasan kungiyoyin kwallon kafa na “Reconciliation” (Sulhu), “Peace” (zaman lafiya), “Love” (Soyayya), “Humanity” (Mutuntaka) da “Forgiveness” (Yafiya); wadanda kungiyar “Face of Peace Global” ta shirya, sun fara kokarin cire duk wani tsoro da rikicin addini ya dasa a garin a tsawon lokaci. Bayan shekaru 18 ana rikici tsakanin musulmi da kiristoci ta yadda har mutane suka koma zama a mabanbanta garuruwa, kocinan kungiyoyin kwallon kafa sun hada yan wasan da aka cakudasu ta fuskar addini da makotaka.

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  • Part 1: Juvenile Court Diversion is Cheap and Effective, But Inconsistent Across NH

    April 24, 2021 |

    Granite State News Collaborative |

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    Response Location: United States, New Hampshire

    Juvenile court diversion programs provide an alternative to charging minors with a crime. The initiative focuses on holding juveniles accountable and focusing on “community repair,” with the aim of preventing them from committing a crime again.

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  • "Get In Front of the Beef"

    April 22, 2021 |

    The Philadelphia Citizen |

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    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    Philadelphia's Cure Violence program uses violence interrupters whose street credibility can mediate disputes before they turn deadly. This program and a related group violence intervention program, focused deterrence, have been successful in certain neighborhoods. But the city's support has been inconsistent as competing priorities or lack of focus undercut the programs' effectiveness. Oakland's Ceasefire program provides an example of a long-term success in a marriage of law enforcement, community-led interventions, and data showing whom to target and what is working.

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  • Crypto power: Can solar boost cheap, green homes in S.Africa?

    April 22, 2021 |

    Thomson Reuters Foundation |

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    Response Location: South Africa, Cape Town

    Watergate Estate is working on two issues in South Africa: affordable housing and renewable energy. The housing development is installing solar panels for its residents that are being bought by people all over the world using cash or bitcoin as a way to offset their own carbon costs. Not everyone agrees that gated communities like this are helping to fight social inequalities, crime, and unemployment, but about 470 people bought solar cells for the apartment complex and some residents say they feel safer in their community.

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  • Part 2: “There is no Champion” — Granite State News Collaborative

    April 22, 2021 |

    Granite State News Collaborative |

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    Response Location: United States, North Conway, New Hampshire

    White Mountain Restorative Justice offers juvenile and adult court diversion and victim-offender mediation programs. WMRJ aims to guide first-time low-level offenders through restorative justice processes to hold offenders accountable, repair the harm caused by crime, and prevent reoffences.

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  • A Fatal Police Shooting in Lents Was the Nightmare Portland Officials Tried to Prevent

    April 21, 2021 |

    Willamette Week |

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    Response Location: United States, Portland, Oregon

    After the U.S. Justice Department found that Portland police used excessive force too often when dealing with people in mental health crises, the city formed an unarmed mobile crisis team and a team of police officers with extra training in such cases. Neither team was used when a man with a history of mental illness, armed with what turned out to be a toy gun, was shot to death by a police officer. The Portland Street Response team was not called because the incident occurred outside its limited working hours during the team's pilot phase.

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