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CPD Adds Foot Patrols to City’s Troubled Areas
Chicago police officers are now patrolling prioritized areas on foot as part of a plan to cut crime in the city’s most troubled neighborhoods. Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy announced yesterday he is reviving a classic policing strategy as part of the city’s crime-fighting initiative Operation Impact. “Residents in the prioritized zones will not just [...]
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Defying the Odds to Awaken a Community
New City Youth Create Newspaper Mural, Urge Residents to Open Lines of Communication Imagine living in a block where 12 to 15 houses are empty and only six or seven remain inhabited. “That ain’t safe to a lot of kids,” said John Jones, 17, who lives on one of those blocks. Every day, youth like Jones [...]
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Vacant Homes Demolished
Mayor’s New Initiative to Deter Crime by Demolishing Vacant Homes has Residents in Disagreement Only a square of bricks and debris remained of the once vacant home at 6747 S. Laflin St. on Thursday, July 12. The home was one of the first 12 properties demolished as part of Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s new plan to [...]
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City’s Vacant Property Initiative to Deter Gang Violence “Is Going in the Wrong Direction,” Say Activists
Community organizations are in disagreement with Emanuel and McCarthy’s new plan to demolish vacant buildings in order to curb gang violence around Chicago’s high crime neighborhoods. While both Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy announced their new plan on Monday, July 9 to get rid of vacant homes in communities around the [...]
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Criminalizing Youth
Is our criminal justice system setting up minority youth to fail? Though recent reports stated declines in citywide crime, neighborhoods with a large concentration of minority youth continue to harbor high crime rates in comparison to other areas. According to Tracy Siska from the Chicago Justice Project, part of the problem is that continuous high profile [...]
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