Sentences with phrase «gun violence in the city»

Officials are offering up a range of solutions on how to reduce gun violence in the city.

If you are sick and tired of reading, talking, watching, posting and tweeting about gun violence in our city and want to really do something about it, you can.

This, despite an 11 percent rise in gun violence in the city compared to the same time last year, according to the latest statistics from the police department.

Yet, gun violence in the city as a whole is on the decline.

She spent a lot of time talking about gun violence in the city, and particularly during her early years.

«Studies like this are particularly important right now, given the incidence of gun violence in cities such as Chicago and the renewed attention to gang crime nationwide,» Berdychevsky said.

Students at Syracuse University's School of Social Work in Falk College are learning about the ramifications and public policies regarding gun violence in the city of Syracuse.

THE BRONX — Mayor Bill de Blasio said Wednesday he was unaware of the problems plaguing a Harlem anti-violence site that uses ex-gang members to stop shootings but that he stood behind the model the city has chosen to address stubborn gun violence in the city's toughest neighborhoods.

This weekend's student - organized forum on gun violence in the city of Buffalo has garnered attention because Republican Congressman Chris Collins refuses to participate.

The death of an aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who was caught in the crossfire between two gangs hours before New York City's West Indian Day parade, should be a call to action to quell gun violence in the city, the governor told mourners Saturday at the slain aide's funeral.

Syracuse TRUCE started two years ago, as a collaboration between police and community service organizations with the aim of reducing gun violence in the city.

For the past five years, I have also lived in downtown Chicago, working alongside others who are combating the epidemic of gun violence in this city — men and women with stray bullet holes in their homes and car doors who regularly lose children in their ministry care to violence.

Because so many guns are purchased privately by individuals and brought into Chicago from places with more lax gun laws like Indiana, experts say universal background checks could actually make a difference in reducing gun violence in cities.

Dion McGill, education program manager at the Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence, says we can't underestimate how aware children are of the gun violence in their city.

And while the event was not meant to solve poverty or gun violence in the city, it brought a very diverse community to stand together against any kind of violence they may face next.

«The vast majority of our shootings and our gun violence in the city of Syracuse is attributed to gangs and gun violence by groups,» Trudell said.

Gun buy back programs run by law enforcement are popular, but may not reduce gun violence in cities.

«My cops work hard... very hard to reduce gun violence in the city.

«Mayor Robinson,» I called out in my best TV reporter voice, «the latest victim of gun violence in this city was a baby playing in front of his house.