Sentences with phrase «violence deaths each year»

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After a downturn in violence in the early years after the turn of the century, deaths related to Mexican drug wars totaled 121,669 between 2006 and 2012, according to a recent report from the Justice in Mexico project at the University of California - San Diego's Department of Politic Science and International Relations.

Assaults by firearm kill about 11,000 people in the US each year, which translates to a roughly 1 - in - 370 lifetime chance of death from gun violence.

The president's statements came three days after violence in Charlottesville resulted in the death of 32 - year - old Heather Heyer, who was demonstrating against the rally of white nationalists, and injuries to 19 others.

Frazier's decision to step down from the council came after President Trump failed to immediately condemn head - on the white supremacists whose rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, over the weekend led to violence — including the brutal death of a 32 - year - old counter-protester.

The condemnation descended on the president a day after he told reporters in a defiant news conference at Trump Tower in Manhattan that «alt - left» demonstrators were just as responsible for the violence in Charlottesville last weekend as the neo-Nazis and white supremacists who instigated protests that led to the death of a 32 - year - old woman, struck down by a car driven by a right - wing activist.

9/11 is considered a national tragedy with 3,000 deaths, yet gun violence results in 10,000 deaths a year.

In 2008 in the state of Orissa, a month - long spate of violence broke out against Christians after they were blamed for the death of a ninety - year - old Hindu sage, Swami Lakshmananda, and five of his companions, who in fact were likely slain by regional Maoist insurgents.

Well over 419,000 Americans die each year from causes attributable to smoking, and tobacco is responsible for more deaths in the United States than alcohol consumption, illicit drug use, violence, automobile crashes and the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) combined!

Even though alcoholism ranks as one of the country's three major health problems, along with cancer and heart disease; even though it accounts for approximately 98,000 deaths every year; even though it is the root cause of most pastoral - care crises (suicides, auto fatalities, child abuse, divorces, hospital admissions, accidental deaths and home violence); even though it costs the nation $ 120 billion annually in terms of lost work time, health and welfare benefits, property damage, medical expenses, insurance and lost wages; and even though its effects impair the educational process of every child in every classroom, still the church acts as though alcoholism does not exist.

I say this having read a number of the things advocates of «pro — life violence» have published over the years and having corresponded at length with Paul Hill, who is on death row in Florida for a double murder outside an abortion clinic in 1994.

A review into the death of 2 - year - old Jeremiah Regis - Ngaujah has found that physical violence he incurred... More

It is the third death in Sao Paulo this year from fan violence.

De Blasio called the death of a mentally ill veteran in an overheated cell on Rikers Island «shocking and troubling» and vowed to make reforms to the city's sprawling jail complex, where violence has surged in recent years.

Cuomo delivered the eulogy at the 43 - year - old's funeral, stating, «His death was one of the most tragic, pointless examples of the rampant violence that is spreading like a cancer through our society, especially in our poorer communities and especially in our communities of color.»

There were more deaths in custody last year than ever before, staffing levels have seen deep cuts, there's a shortage of places and violence against prison staff is up sharply.

Rikers has gained notoriety over the past few years for its culture of violence and corruption, including attacks on and by correction officers and a number of inmate deaths.

The violence, contraband, self inflicted deaths and riots in our prisons are a problem now, not two years from now.

Fifteen people stabbed to death in London since the start of the year, in a grim new benchmark for violence.

The Correctional Association of New York, a prison reform organization, has called for a broad probe of violence in the state's corrections system following the April death of a 30 - year - old inmate at a state facility in Fishkill, Dutchess County.

Mayor de Blasio — terrified of possibly angering his crucial Brooklyn power base in any way — reversed course and vowed Tuesday to continue the J'Ouvert festival despite two deaths and a slew of other violence this year.

This spat of youth violence comes just days after another boy, 14 - year - old Philip Johnson, was shot to death in Williamsbridge Monday night during a fight organized by two groups of feuding teenagers via text message.

The push to reduce violence during J'Ouvert follows two fatalities during the event in 2015, including the death of 43 - year - old Carey Gabay, an attorney in the administration of Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

The latest spate of J'Ouvert violence has once again raised questions over whether the parade should be shut down, just one year after the shooting death of Gov. Andrew Cuomo aide Carey Gabay.

More recently, he responded to last month's Westminster terror attack by saying «normal non-Mohammedans» should fear Islam and attacked the religion as a «death cult, born and steeped in 1,400 years of violence and bloodshed, that propagates itself by intimidation, violence and conquest.»

Speaking with his 13 - year - old son at his side, Hamilton, a founding member of the United Against Gun Violence Task Force, called for common humanity in light of the recent deaths, noting that longer - term changes need to be considered and that positive police - community relations are needed.

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Dr. Brown and co-investigators at CHAM used a nationally representative sample of 76,227 children from the 2011 - 2012 National Survey of Children's Health, to identify children 4 -17 years old whose parents reported both the presence and severity of ADHD and their child's exposure to nine ACEs — socioeconomic hardship, divorce, death, domestic violence, neighborhood violence, substance abuse, incarceration, mental illness in the family, and discrimination.

Falk says the new findings challenge the idea that, starting around 5,000 years ago, states reduced rates of violence and war deaths characteristic of earlier, much smaller human groups (SN: 8/10/13, p. 10).

After 205 people died from gun violence in St. Louis last year, the city's research universities and hospitals decided to take steps to reduce such deaths.

Add the 88,000 alcohol - related deaths in the United States each year and you get a figure that's more than double the annual number of deaths from auto accidents and gun violence combined.

T [2] symbol for the Dvorak T - number, a subjective estimate of the A five - year - old child was stabbed to death in a domestic violence incident on the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill campus, officials said.

The Ballad of Lefty Brown Rated R for violence and some language Rotten Tomatoes Score: 80 % Available on Disc and Streaming Yet another decent Western this year, The Ballad of Lefty Brown stars Bill Pullman as the titular character: a cowboy who witnesses the death of his partner, only to be blamed for the crime and forced to both prove his innocence and bring the real criminals to justice.

Kids today, perhaps the prime audience for «Max,» could be troubled by some aspects of the movie, but ultimately they will acquire a real - life, vicarious experience involving the death of a 14 - year - old boy's brother (shown graphically in a scene from Afghanistan) and the violence involving gun smugglers, one of whom violates the Marine code of behavior by being involved in the theft and sale of AK - 47's and a bazooka.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening March 23, 2012 BIG BUDGET FILMS The Hunger Games (PG - 13 for intense violence and disturbing images) Screen adaptation of Suzanne Collins» futuristic sci - fi novel about a 16 year - old girl (Jennifer Lawrence) who volunteers to take her unlucky younger sister's (Willow Shields) place in a nationally - televised fight to the death featuring 24 participants picked by a government lottery.

From March's twelve - year - old daughter Holly (Angourie Rice) spewing out lines that Black and Anthony Bagarozzi seem to have written solely for shock value, to several grotesque scenes of head - bashing and bone - cracking, to countless inexplicable and pointless deaths by gunfire, the film was too extreme and thoughtless with its violence for my taste.

Since that epic chronicle of two inner - city Chicago teens» crusades to become professional basketball players — one of the most acclaimed and successful nonfiction features of its decade — James has gone on to make other probing studies of American life, such as the intensely personal Stevie, the capital - punishment exposé At the Death House Door, and last year's The Interrupters, a devastating immersion in the work of street - violence mediators.

Despite countless «man - on - a-mission» flicks in recent years, DEATH SENTENCE, LAW ABIDING CITIZEN, even Cage's tepid JUSTICE, to name a few, as well as future projects such as Joe Carnahan's DEATH WISH remake or Albert Hughes» MOTOR CITY, I'm always a one for a great one of these efforts in this sub-genre, if done right... and heaps of violence!

It's all reheated «cycle of violence» stuff that was done to death, and done better, thirty years ago.

Thirty years later, an American army lieutenant's death in Vietnam is still shrouded in mystery; the only evidence is a recently discovered letter written by an enemy soldier describing an act of shocking violence.

In the 42 years since the National Safety Council bleated concerns to the New York Times about gamers running down pixilated «gremlins» in the 1976 arcade game Death Race, science has yet to find a connection between video games and real - world violence.

Though the link between video - game violence and the real kind, so often decried, is dubious and unproven, it is difficult to imagine that years of exposure to graphic depictions of death and dismemberment will not have some effect on young minds.

Simpson told me the nails were symbolic and could be enumerating anything, «from the minutiae of one's day - to - day life and deadlines, or the way that this past couple of years have been the counting of deaths by police violence or police brutality or gun violence.»

And while the artist's actions for peace have been a persistent force since the death of her husband in 1980, Ono's influence was especially palpable this year, be it through denouncing gun violence via Twitter, organizing thousands of people to form a giant peace sign in Central Park, or inspiring audiences through her art, which saw a much - deserved spotlight at MoMA this year.

To say, more than 40 years after her death, «I am Ulrike Meinhof» is to say that I know what she could not know or could not admit: that divine violence is possible, but not for us.20

Global Witness, an international NGO that documents natural resource extraction, corruption, and violence, reports a 59 percent increase in deaths last year compared to 2014.

New job protected leaves will be implemented, including: Long - term Illness and Injury leave (up to 16 weeks), Domestic Violence leave (up to 10 days per year), Critical Illness of Child leave (up to 36 weeks), Death or Disappearance of a Child leave (up to 52 weeks or 104 weeks), Personal and Family Responsibility leave (up to 5 days per year), Bereavement leave and Citizenship Ceremony leave (up to 1/2 day per year).

(7) An employer shall retain or arrange for some other person to retain all notices, certificates, correspondence and other documents given to or produced by the employer that relate to an employee taking pregnancy leave, parental leave, family medical leave, organ donor leave, family caregiver leave, critical illness leave, child death leave, crime - related child disappearance leave, domestic or sexual violence leave, personal emergency leave, emergency leave during a declared emergency or reservist leave for three years after the day on which the leave expired.

While the number of intimate - partner violence - related deaths across Canada dropped between 2013 and 2014, the number of these deaths doubled in BC and was the highest it has been in five years.

In fact, former prime minister Stephen Harper, speaking at Yukon College in Whitehorse in August 2014, following the death of 15 - year - old Tina Fontaine — who was killed after she left her foster home — stated that violence against Indigenous women and girls in Canada should not be viewed as «sociological phenomenon.»

• Assault or Battery: 2 years • Domestic Violence: 5 years • Dram Shop Actions (personal injury or death as a result of unlawfully selling or giving alcohol to a minor or visibly intoxicated person): 2 years • Negligence: 3 years • General Products Liability: 3 years • General Premises Liability: 3 years • Uninsured Motorists; Motor Vehicle Accident Claims Fund: 3 years, 6 months • Wrongful Death: 3 years • Dog Bite Cases: 3 years • Social Host Personal Injury Cases: 3 years • Third - Party No - Fault: 3 years • First - Party No - Fault: 1death as a result of unlawfully selling or giving alcohol to a minor or visibly intoxicated person): 2 years • Negligence: 3 years • General Products Liability: 3 years • General Premises Liability: 3 years • Uninsured Motorists; Motor Vehicle Accident Claims Fund: 3 years, 6 months • Wrongful Death: 3 years • Dog Bite Cases: 3 years • Social Host Personal Injury Cases: 3 years • Third - Party No - Fault: 3 years • First - Party No - Fault: 1Death: 3 years • Dog Bite Cases: 3 years • Social Host Personal Injury Cases: 3 years • Third - Party No - Fault: 3 years • First - Party No - Fault: 1 year