Through June, Cook County has had 220 gun homicides, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner’s office. This is 24 more ...

While gun violence has steadily declined all across America over the last four years, Chicago has the second-largest drop among the 10 largest cities and will likely end this year with the fewest ...

Vice President Kamala Harris joined community leaders from across the country Feb. 9 at the White House to honor the first graduates of the University of Chicago Crime Lab’s Community Violence ...

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Akron Mayor Shammas Malik announced a new partnership for violence intervention June 12. Shown from left are City of Akron ...

About 1 in 5 high school students in the United States has seen violence first-hand among people who are not related, including homicides involving guns. That’s according to a new report from the US ...

Let’s be honest: We have never had a successful public safety strategy in Black and brown communities. Until now. Imagine an effective policing strategy that makes neighborhoods safe; causes residents ...

More than 100 people were shot in Chicago over a summer weekend in 2021. One resident, 52-year-old Rick, was among them, and his story might seem like just another shooting in a city wrestling with a ...

State Medicaid agencies had previously had the authority to add violence prevention services as a benefit, but these were not used until recent actions by CMS. In the United States, disparities that ...

The American Hospital Association released its last Hospitals Against Violence Advisory Group guidelines. The guidelines focus on community-based violence interventions. The guidelines, titled ...

Everytown for Gun Safety Fund will invest more than $2 million in community violence intervention programs in an effort to address gun violence across the nation. The investment, announced Thursday, ...

Johnson County has made progress in the development of a county-wide community violence intervention program, which aims to prevent violent crimes by providing support and assistance to vulnerable ...