Sentences with phrase «of gun violence in this city»

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.

«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.

Not exact matches

While the vast majority of firearms fatalities are still suicides, which make up about two - thirds of gun deaths, gun homicides ballooned from 9,600 in 2015 to 11,000 in 2016 due to increased gun violence in Chicago and certain other cities, according to the CDC.

The kids in Chicago, Detroit, Baltimore and other cities who live through a siege of gun violence EVERY DAY.

And it's true that the city has fairly high levels of gun violence (although also not the worst in the US).

«Florida's safest city» and one of the cities in America most affected by gun violence came together to share stories, ideologies, and pizza.

His comments followed hundreds of thousands of people who protested in cities across the country on Saturday to oppose gun violence and call for change.

I'm far more concerned about the drug addicted babies born in my city or the incredible amount of gun violence and the lack of access to decent childcare for low income families.

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.

Syracuse Police Chief Frank Fowler said the gun violence seen in the city is random in nature and a result of irrational thinking.

«That is why we set up the Tackling Gangs Action Programme last year to focus on gun and gang violence in the four cities where over half of gun crime occurs.»

(Albany, NY)-- New York State Senators Brian Kavanagh and Brad Hoylman and Assemblymember Jo Anne Simon today joined advocates including New Yorkers Against Gun Violence, the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, the Citizens Crime Commission of New York City, the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, Everytown for Gun Safety, Giffords, the New York Chapter of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, and Prosecutors Against Gun Violence, along with other legislators, to form a coalition supporting legislation (S7133 / A8976) that would establish a new court - issued order of protection to reduce gun vViolence, the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, the Citizens Crime Commission of New York City, the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, Everytown for Gun Safety, Giffords, the New York Chapter of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, and Prosecutors Against Gun Violence, along with other legislators, to form a coalition supporting legislation (S7133 / A8976) that would establish a new court - issued order of protection to reduce gun vViolence, the Citizens Crime Commission of New York City, the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, Everytown for Gun Safety, Giffords, the New York Chapter of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, and Prosecutors Against Gun Violence, along with other legislators, to form a coalition supporting legislation (S7133 / A8976) that would establish a new court - issued order of protection to reduce gun vViolence, Everytown for Gun Safety, Giffords, the New York Chapter of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, and Prosecutors Against Gun Violence, along with other legislators, to form a coalition supporting legislation (S7133 / A8976) that would establish a new court - issued order of protection to reduce gun vViolence, along with other legislators, to form a coalition supporting legislation (S7133 / A8976) that would establish a new court - issued order of protection to reduce gun violenceviolence.

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 issue of homelessness in New York City and housing in Rochester, gun violence in Brooklyn, gun violence in Syracuse, the relief of the opioid crisis on Staten Island, the relief of the opioid crisis in Cortland.

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

Democrats in the Assembly won more funding for transportation and the New York City Housing Authority, as well as a vote on a bill to take guns from people accused of domestic violence.

In both cities, the call from survivors of the Parkland massacre last month is for Congress to pass stricter gun control laws and to end gun violence.

Elected officials, community leaders, victims and their family members will join Diaz Jr. in an effort to draw attention to the impact of gun violence on the public safety in the Bronx and in the city.

That Harlem was the only stop the cyclists made in New York City was a fact not lost on those in attendance, as the neighborhood knows well the scourge of gun violence.

At 5 p.m., the Citizens Crime Commission of New York City hosts a panel discussion on the role social media plays in gun violence, with New York University's Dr. Shabnam Javdani and others, John Jay College, Moot Court Room, 524 W. 59th St., Manhattan.

«It's certainly a matter of pressing urgency,» said Gianaris, who says gun violence in New York City is up 12 % over last year.

«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.

Crawley, a well - known local advocate against gun violence, pleaded not guilty Friday in Syracuse City Court to charges of obstructing governmental administration and resisting arrest.

Police Commissioner James O'Neill said officers will not let up on going after the criminals responsible for most of the violence in a few areas of the city — gang members and people who illegally possess guns.

Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly sat in the front row of a large hotel conference room on Wednesday morning, waiting for his turn to speak about New York City's gun violence.

This approach, which builds bridges between law enforcement and the community, has yielded positive results in Albany, and it could help in Troy, where gun violence has flared in parts of the city in recent months.

Many of these stories were reported during the time I had proposed legislation in the Common Council establishing a task force on gun violence for the city of Albany.

She says the program reduced gun violence by 65 percent in her home city of Yonkers.

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 funeCity'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 funecity, 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.

Now, Green, who leads the state Division of Criminal Justice Services, is helping fight gun violence in the 17 counties that experience 83 percent of the state's violent crime, excluding New York City.

LaPierre said that in the past, he had worked with Democrats who wanted to work to reduce gun violence, but that leaders now only cared about exploiting tragedy for political gain, calling them a «tidal wave of new European socialists» in charge of the party and name - checking Sen. Kamala Harris, D - Calif.; Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D - Mass.; New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio; New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo; Sen. Cory Booker, D - N.J.; Sen. Christopher Murphy, D - Conn.; and Rep. Keith Ellison, D - Minn., to boos in the crowd.

Discussing the spate of gun violence — some of it in her district, City Councilmember Letitia James said, «There is a crisis in the city of New York that needs to be addressed but not at the expense of our civil rights.&raCity Councilmember Letitia James said, «There is a crisis in the city of New York that needs to be addressed but not at the expense of our civil rights.&racity of New York that needs to be addressed but not at the expense of our civil rights.»

Inspired by students from the targeted Florida high school, as many as 500,000 people are expected to rally against gun violence and in favor of stricter gun laws on March 24 in Washington, D.C., with sister marches taking place in cities across the world.

«Given a city like Philadelphia's prior experience with gun violence, the 29 percent reduction in crime reported in this trial could translate into hundreds of fewer shootings each year if the vacant land interventions tested here were scaled beyond just the locations of the study,» said Branas.

«Reduce crime and gun violence and stabilize neighborhoods: A randomized controlled study: As much as a 29 percent reduction in gun violence in poor neighborhoods could translate into hundreds of fewer shootings every year for cities affected by blighted spaces.»

Maybe urban gun violence is just too predictable to hold our attention: It is extraordinarily concentrated — «hypersegregated» in Macdonald's phrase — with a handful of neighborhoods in the 10 largest cities accounting for 30 percent of all gun homicides nationwide.

If there was one bona fide trend at Park City it was of film - makers taking on gun violence and gun control in creative ways.

Hundreds of thousands of students, teachers, and parents packed streets near the White House and the U.S. Capitol and marched in cities around the globe on Saturday to demand more - restrictive gun laws and decry gun violence, the latest in a series of massive demonstrations sparked by the Parkland, Fla., school shooting that killed 17 people last month.

Students at High Tech High in Chula Vista, California created a successful Kickstarter campaign to address gun violence, and my journalism students created documentaries to tackle the struggles of former gang members in Los Angeles and how the lack of affordable housing affects people in large cities.

Carrying crosses emblazoned with photos and names of the city's victims of gun violence, high school senior D'Angelo McDade, front right, leads a march in Chicago's North Lawndale neighborhood during a walkout to protest gun violence, on March 14.

A wave of shootings in the Irish Channel that may be connected to an attack on a school bus last month and another outbreak of gun violence in the Central City area led to a joint operation of more than 40 officers being deployed to find the shooters and suppress the gunfire, authorities said this week.

This is especially true of Chicago, a city that absorbed tens of thousands of freed slaves during the Great Migration, who then suffered unprecedented housing and employment discrimination, and whose great - grandchildren live today under a regime of de facto segregation, in Southside slums rife with gun violence.

Spearheaded by Stoneman Douglas student activists, the town halls aim to keep the issue of gun violence at the forefront after hundreds of thousands of people marched last month in Washington and other cities, demanding stricter regulations on weapons.

Following a massacre at a Florida high school, hundreds of thousands of protesters rallied in major U.S. cities and across the world to protest gun violence and call for political action from Congressional leaders.

The national event came a week after hundreds of Baltimore students left school to march to City Hall to call for an end to gun violence in schools and on the city's streCity Hall to call for an end to gun violence in schools and on the city's strecity's streets.

(Newser)-- As hundreds of thousands march Saturday in cities around the US in support of gun control, the editorial staff of the Eagle Eye — the school newspaper at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, where 17 people were killed in a shooting in February — are pushing nine changes to fight gun violence in the US.

The students organized a massive protest in Washington and other cities dubbed the «March for Our Lives» earlier this month and now plan a series of town halls on the subject of gun violence.

Wade was personally affected by gun violence when his cousin, Nykea Aldridge was killed in the streets of Chicago just a week after he moved back to the city to play with the Chicago Bulls.

When I was a student in New York City schools, there was no threat of gun violence in schools.