Crime Prevention

Due to the high rate of crimes committed throughout big cities by gun violence, it is essential for Law Enforcement to enforce a solution to prevent violent, brutal crimes from occurring. Both Federal and local Law Enforcement must work together to promote a solution for reducing gun violence. Back in Bush’s first term as President it was significant for the Bush administration to create a project to “get the message out there” about deterrence and the increasing number of crimes committed through the use of guns. The Bush administration came up with the project known as the Project Safe Neighborhoods. The goal for Project Safe Neighborhoods is to inhibit criminal behavior by using deterrence and incapacitation. Through deterrence and

Because of easy access to get a gun, gun violence has become an increasing problem in the southern states in America, so I plan to improve this issue by influencing my peers via sharing my thoughts, and advocating for stronger background checks when trying to purchase firearms and gun-related equipment.The plan is to bring the attention of this issue to adults who are capable of taking my ideas further to make a difference. Once there is a large group of supports, the importance of strengthening gun background checks will become evident. The targeted group to focus on for this situation are parents, teenagers (those allowed to vote, like seniors), and other people who could influence the government. Specifically, I will inform my church members,

Many people in America are coming to the realization that gun violence is beginning to have a dramatic affect on teenagers. Christine Watkins, the author of, “Gun Crimes Cause Serious Harm to Children” Gives much evidence on why she believes more gun control, or even removing all firearms from homes will be the solution to this crisis. She tells readers that teenagers from urban areas have the greatest risk of being involved in some kind of gun crime. With her estimate of over 280 million gun in America, she believes firearms are too readily available and teenagers are accessing them with little to no trouble, legally, or illegally. Furthermore, she believes this is why teenagers suffer the most from firearm violence (Gun Crimes). Some

Before I get into the strategies put in place to reduce gun violence, I want to touch on the things that contribute to gun violence in New Haven. According to the “Selected Strategies for Community Gun Violence Prevention” report, violent crimes contribute to and are exacerbated by economic disadvantage (City-Wide). The main area in New Haven where gun violence occurs is in areas of low-income and poverty and the gun violence are being executed by the youth ages 15-24. In this day and age, we are living in a society where your income level determines your life expectancy, whether it is homicide, suicide or another form of violent activity. Living in New Haven and experiencing this first hand, I was able to see how the power and the struggle of poverty, low-income, gang wars and even drug activity can exacerbate gun violence. New Haven has as many as 2,500 people who are in gangs. These gangs lie in six neighborhoods in New Haven. The gangs being, The Ville, The Tre, The Tribe, The Jungle, The Island and The Hill hold responsibility

According to the Toronto police, an Anti-Violence Intervention Strategy was a necessary investment in wake of increasing gun violence among poor (primarily black) youth in the city of Toronto, which peaked to its ultimate high in the year 2005 known as the ‘year of the gun’. A media spectacle of the Toronto’s gang violence primarily involving young black men from poor inner suburban

Eighty-nine people depart from this earth due to gun violence in the US every day. From school children, to victims of domestic violence, to people going about their daily lives, this status quo is unacceptable. On Tuesday January 5th, 2016 President Obama announced that he would send proposals on reducing gun violence in America to Congress. His spokesman, Jay Carney, mentioned that this is “a complex problem that will require a complex solution.” The ability to own a gun is considered by some a birthright of Americans. However, with crime rates involving handguns rising each day it has become quite clear. Handgun laws must become stricter in order to reduce homicide and crime. The question is, “which solution in most effective in decreasing gun violence?” Gun control is a major conflict that is constantly reoccurring and the US is seemingly divided over it.

It has spread to the suburbs and small towns. Gun violence rates have increased in the last decade due to hatred and societal issues, and while shooters and victims both face many difficult obstacles, there are some solutions that the public and schools can enforce through awareness.

According to the Toronto Police Service, in 2016 alone there has been an astonishing 190 incidents involving gun violence, with 39 of them resulting in death. This has been a 50% increase from the previous year. So how must we combat this incessant and utterly unnecessary bloodshed on the streets of Toronto? Well, first we must make a distinction that guns do not kill people, but rather, people kill people. This highlights that gun violence is not primarily due to the weapon itself, but the social conditions that instigate such altercations. Therefore, we must make an effort to increase the communal services available to those situated in areas with a history of gun violence. Particularly, these

The Greater Roseland Coalition (GRC) is a product of an anti-violence movement that grew out of the need to address the surge in gun violence on the South Side of Chicago. The Coalition is a result of a merger between Community Assistance Programs (CAPs), Roseland Ceasefire (RFC) & Lights of Zion Training Institute (LOZTI). Since its inception in 2010 combined, the Greater Roseland Coalition (GRC) have served well over 5000 clients through our Violence Prevention Programs to provide critical outreach, intervention and interruption services to reduce gun violence through our comprehensive programming that include: Neighborhood Recovery Initiative (NRI), the Illinois Criminal Justice Authority, Access to Recovery Program, (ATR), Illinois Violence Prevention Authority, and the Illinois Department of Corrections, programs to provide mentoring and reduced to recidivism Our target population includes court involved youth, with letters of cooperation, other at-risk youth, as well as Chicagoans who are at high risk to be perpetrators or victims of gun violence in the Greater Roseland Community, however, we do

This article is meant to be read by others besides citizens in Chicago. It is a cry for help, and an insight into what people are going through because of gun violence. I and many others live in rural towns, safe, family areas and we have no clue what these cities are going through. We cannot relate to something that we haven 't experienced. Davey uses her words to influence the readers to try to sympathize and understand what the

After doing extensive research on this topic I found that between 1985 and 1994 the rate of violent criminal acts increased. During this period juvenile homicides committed with a handgun also increased. A national evaluation of the Youth Firearms Violence Initiative (YFVI), a program initiated by the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS), the organization who funds intervention programs. This particular program employed community policy approaches to decrease the number of violent fireman crimes committed by youth, including gang-and drug-related offenses. There are five intensive sites (Baltimore, Cleveland, Inglewood, Salinas, San Antonio) that were chosen for the YFVI initiatives. The reason for these particular areas is because of the high crime rate. There is evidence from Inglewood and the Salinas area that supports their view about how weapons and crime affect their neighborhoods, although at the other sites the interventions did not yield the same results. How results in a specific area turn out depends on how a department conceives the initiative and the consistency of their focus. It is mandatory that the federal government play a strong role in ensuring that participating departments adhere to the strategic goals and objectives. There are questions regarding how funding agencies should adopt a timetable that more closely matches the agencies of the world in which most departments operate. In regards to making sure the programs run smoothly

St. Louis has a lot to work on. The state of Missouri needs to get their gun laws back. Harvard School of Public Health’s Injury Control Research Center claimed that “ a wide array of empirical evidence indicated that more guns in a community lead to more homicides Since the repeal of the gun laws, the state has seen a rise in gun-related deaths” ( Lopez, 2017). Adopting initiatives like Operation Ceasefire will help St. Louis reduce their gun violence. It is very important to work with the community to target this issue. Many people in St. Louis want to have a safer environment and a break from all the violence they have been facing over the years (Liss, 2017). Moreover, another intervention study conducted by Boston University School of

This article examines the crime policy strategies in perspective of Australian policing. The responsibility of Police is measured by the implementation of policies regarding the safety and security of the community. In particular, the article explores policing hate crime, policy implementation and community policing, including the effectiveness of these concepts and how they are important to crime prevention. The article provides an evidence based-approach that advances the usefulness for the essay topic, and furthermore will be useful to the essay by exploring crime policies and policing perspectives within a community scenario. Therefore, this article assists with the topic of crime prevention from a policing point of view.

A literature review of gun violence prevention is being undergone as part of this submittal. This research is important because gun violence has been a plague in the United States and the United Kingdom, among other places, for much of the recent century or two. This violence takes on two major forms. The first is general gun violence that is perpetrated as part of gang violence, robberies, burglaries, crimes of passion or spite and so forth. The other major form, which is both quite uncommon but very poignant and affecting when it happens, are school and other mass shootings like Columbine and the very recent Sandy Hook. There have been a decent amount of other school shootings and work shootings, but those are far and away the most notorious. Both were effected by very mentally ill teenagers or young adults that decide to go out in a bloody and perverted blaze of glory before they took their own life.

The focus of this paper will be based upon different crime prevention strategies implemented by members of the communities, local and government authorities.