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Discover Proven Strategies to Reduce Gun Violence by 30-60% Without Increasing Incarceration

It is often overlooked that there exist evidence-based strategies for reducing gun violence, which unfortunately lack adequate funding and support on a large scale. These proven approaches have demonstrated the potential to reduce shootings and homicides by significant margins, typically ranging from 30% to 60%, all while avoiding a surge in incarceration rates. Regrettably, these effective strategies often go unnoticed and [...]

Reduce Gun Violence: Prioritizing Community-based Interventions

Community-Based Violence Interventions: Proven Strategies To Reduce Violent Crime Center for American Progress - Akua Amaning and Hassen Bashir Leaders around the nation should prioritize community-based violence intervention programs to reduce gun violence and violent crime more broadly. Across America, communities are struggling to combat rising gun violence. Although overall crime rates remain low, the sale of firearms and instances of [...]

Will $300 Million for Gun Violence Prevention Reach Grassroots Groups?

“We’re asking the federal government to keep ensuring, number one, that law enforcement cannot jump to the front of the line,” Pastor Michael McBride Congress Approved Millions for Gun Violence Prevention. Will It Reach Grassroots Groups? The Trace - Chip Brownlee  April 18, 2022 An injection of at least $300 million for community groups is part of the Biden administration's larger [...]

Community Violence Intervention: The Future of Public Safety

Community Violence Interventions—Not More Police—Are The Future Of Public Safety Forbes - Nazish Dholakia, Senior Writer, & Daniela Gilbert Redefining Public Safety Director, Vera Institute of Justice Gun violence is rising across the country—in big cities and rural communities, in red states and blue ones. Especially hard hit are Black communities and other communities of color that have experienced decades of [...]

Investing in Evidence-based Alternatives to Policing: A Key Step Towards Promoting Public Safety.

Investing in Evidence-Based Alternatives to Policing Vera - Staff Changing the ways police operate in communities is integral to dismantling systemic racism. Local budgets disproportionately fund police departments over other public services that would promote public safety, including housing, employment support, education, and public health. Using police and punitive approaches as the primary tools to address health and social issues including [...]

25-year-old Jaylen Lewis dies after shooting involving Capitol Police officers

25-year-old Jaylen Lewis dies after shooting involving Capitol Police officers Publication: WAPT News Author: Ross Adams Date: September 30, 2022 Summary/Takeaway: Capitol Police officers involved in a shooting that killed a 25-year-old man are on administrative leave, according to officials with the Mississippi Department of Public Safety. Jackson City Councilman Kenneth Stokes said he wants to ease what he called growing [...]

2023-02-17T10:39:23-05:00February 17th, 2023|News, Police Brutality|0 Comments

Jaylen Lewis: 25-year-old dies after shooting involving Capitol Police officers

Jaylen Lewis: 25-year-old dies after shooting involving Capitol Police officers Officers placed on administrative leave JACKSON, Miss. — Capitol Police officers involved in a shooting that killed a 25-year-old man are on administrative leave, according to officials with the Mississippi Department of Public Safety. According to a spokesperson for the department, which oversees Capitol Police, Jaylen Lewis died after a Sunday [...]

2023-02-17T10:40:20-05:00January 25th, 2023|News, Police Brutality|0 Comments

DR. DWAYNE PICKETT MEETS WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE REGARDING CAPITAL CITY POLICE ABUSE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Dr. Dwayne Pickett (601) 668-2805 dwaynepickett630@msn.com DR. DWAYNE PICKETT MEETS WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE REGARDING CAPITAL CITY POLICE ABUSE Jackson, Miss., (January 23, 2023) – Dr. Dwayne Pickett, senior pastor of New Jerusalem Church of Jackson, MS, partnered with LIVE FREE and met with the Department of Justice in Washington on January 16, 2023, to present [...]

2023-02-17T10:40:28-05:00January 23rd, 2023|News, Police Brutality|1 Comment
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