The Crime Report (https://thecrimereport.org/category/violence/)
Robert Dear has been found incompetent to stand trial in Colorado for attacking a Planned Parenthood clinic. Now he has been indicted on federal charges that could result in a death penalty.
After 13,000 attempts to enroll at-risk young Baltimore men into therapy, classes and employment services, a program called Roca says it has signed up 95 and hopes to raise the total to 175 next year.
An interim report card on Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s anti-violence programs anchors a package of stories on how chronic street violence affects those most at risk in America’s “Second City.”
By surveying far more hospitals than the CDC’s research covers, the gun-control group Everytown for Gun Safety aims to inform public policy with a picture of gun violence that is broader than just homicides.
The former education secretary and Chicago schools chief, now working on violence prevention in Chicago, says his city now has a large cadre of experts who helped Los Angeles transform its policing and violence prevention programs.
Mass shootings over the past two years have spurred corporations to wrestle more with their role in finding a solution to gun violence. A roundtable discussion convened by The New York Times among executives and advocates on opposing sides of the debate aired the emotions and arguments that have made solutions seem elusive.
Thirteen children were killed this summer in St. Louis. Experts say the trauma of living in a stressful environment can take a serious toll on children’s mental health.
The evidence disproving a link between video games and violence now have an added racial element, based on two recent studies that show how racism affects our views of shooters’ motivations.
President Donald Trump, speaking after the weekend mass killings, put some of the blame on “gruesome and grisly video games.” Those who have studied the issue say there is no connection between video games and violent acts.
Law enforcement and elected officials do not have an iron-clad explanation of why freeways have become a more common venue for gun violence, but they point to gang conflicts, and the displacement of longtime residents from cities like Oakland.