Chicago Police Get Federal Assistance In Fighting Violent Crime
Mayor Rahm Emanuel went into positive spin mode Friday after announcing that federal authorities would assist in the Chicago Police Department's violence reduction initiative to fight violent crime in areas of the city most in need of it. The Police ...chicagoist.com
Chicago's Wild and 'Wilding' Days
Harold Pollack and others at the Chicago Crime Lab are busy demonstrating that counseling and tutoring and activities at school can dramatically reduce violent behavior. Father Michael Pfleger of St. Sabina's Church in bullet-torn Englewood has called ...www.thedailybeast.com
What It Will Take for Ceasefire to Succeed in Reducing Violence in Oakland ...
... Group Violence Reduction Strategy developed by David Kennedy. Ceasefire is particularly promising because it has worked consistently across multiple cities without large costs.blog.sfgate.com
Jalen Stogner, Chicago Teen, Fatally Shot In Front Of His Mother Outside ...
Earlier Friday, Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy announced that 50 federal agents will be joining Chicago police and the Department of Justice to expand the city's violence reduction initiative. Emanuel and McCarthy say the ...www.huffingtonpost.com
McCarthy: Police Arrest More than 300 People in 3-Day Crackdown
Chicago police arrested 307 people and confiscated more than 100 weapons during several drug busts across the city, Chicago Police Supt. Garry McCarthy announced Sunday. "Efforts such as these are part and parcel of our broader Violence Reduction ...www.nbcchicago.com
Emanuel, McCarthy ask feds for help on South Side
Mayor Rahm Emanuel has asked federal law enforcement for help in combating violence and drugs in two areas of Chicago that the city says have seen the highest increase in crime this year. Chicago police officers will coordinate with U.S. marshals and ...www.chicagotribune.com
Obama has been quiet on Chicago violence
... there as he's condemned it in other parts of the country? Concern about Chicago's shooting epidemic did reach the federal level Wednesday morning as US Senator Dick Durbin (IL-D) met with West Side teens enrolled in a violence-reduction program.abclocal.go.com
Computer-Based Screening Program For Partner Violence Does Not Result in ...
Computer-Based Screening Program For Partner Violence Does Not Result in Significant Improvement in Quality of Life, Reduction in Partner Violence ... (HealthNewsDigest.com) - CHICAGO - In a study that included more than 2,700 women receiving care in ...www.healthnewsdigest.com
Former U.Va. lacrosse player gets 23 years for killing ex
(AP) - A former University of Virginia lacrosse player who killed his ex-girlfriend in a drunken rage received a 23-year prison sentence Thursday in a case that forever changed the school's attitudes toward relationship violence and made it easier for ...www.suntimes.com
Delays mark CeaseFire's partnership with city
A new pilot program that calls for the anti-violence group CeaseFire to partner with the Chicago Police Department in curbing violent crime has struggled to take shape this summer, the group said Monday, because the organization didn't have assurances ...www.chicagotribune.com
7 Dead, 24 Others Wounded In Weekend Violence
CHICAGO (CBS) - It has been a terrifying and deadly weekend in Chicago, with at least seven people dead and at least 24 more wounded in shootings since Friday afternoon.chicago.cbslocal.com
Mine violence hits at South Africa political power nexus
Despite billions of dollars of spending by the ANC on poverty reduction and union friendly laws to protect workers exploited by the past white-minority regime, the gap between haves and have-nots is still one of the highest in the world.articles.chicagotribune.com
Insurgents behead 17 Afghan civilians at a party
He said it was unclear whether the music and dancing triggered the violence and whether the dead were all civilians or possibly included some fighters.www.suntimes.com
What Obama needs to do at Democratic convention
The 1968 Chicago Democratic Convention divided over the war into turbulence and some violence, while a full-fledged riot broke out between demonstrators and police outside the hall.www.startribune.com
Tackling gun violence, one block at a time, in New York
Nineteen were shot in Chicago last night. Earlier this summer, seven ... One such, a non-profit organization named Snug ("guns" spelled backwards), works to reduce gun violence in a 72-block section of central Harlem, in upper Manhattan. The area ...www.guardian.co.uk
Police Bust Gang-Controlled Drug Market, Arresting 14
Lollapalooza Gallery: Funky Fashion & Mud. CHICAGO (STMW) - Chicago police busted a gang-controlled drug market in the West Side Austin neighborhood, nabbing 14 people and taking more than $20,000 worth of drugs off the street, authorities announced ...chicago.cbslocal.com
U.S. troops face punishment over Koran burning, urination video
The administrative punishments -- which could include things like reduce rank or forfeiture of pay -- fell short of criminal prosecution, and it was unclear whether they would satisfy Afghan demands for justice.www.chicagotribune.com
U.N. Syria mission to end, Syria meeting in NY on Friday: envoys
The Security Council said last month it would only renew the mandate of UNSMIS, which was deployed in April to monitor a truce that never took hold, if the world body confirmed a "cessation of the use of heavy weapons and a reduction in the level of ...www.chicagotribune.com
Chicago's top cop hails decline in murder rate
Forty-nine people were murdered in July, compared with 55 people in July 2011, according to the department. McCarthy attributed the decline in murders in July to a comprehensive gang violence reduction strategy he launched this year. "It's taking hold ...www.policeone.com
Bahrain appeals court acquits protest leader of insulting PM
Rajab has led many demonstrations calling for a reduction in the powers of the Al Khalifa dynasty that has long ruled the Gulf Arab state.www.chicagotribune.com
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