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Philadelphia
Teachers across the country are struggling to give students the support they need. In Philadelphia, that includes finding ways to protect them from shootings that are approaching record levels.
Community Violence
Safe Streets sends staffers into potentially dangerous situations in the hopes of halting violence. But after a third Baltimore worker was murdered on the job, some question whether the approach makes sense.
How We Fix This
The city hopes that providing officers and residents the space and tools to listen to each other can remedy distrust and prevent further violence.
Analysis
Facing record rates of violence, the city’s leaders are reviving focused deterrence, a crime prevention strategy that has failed there twice. Can they convince the community to give it another chance?
Amid a troubling increase in the number of children being shot, the city is investing in safe spaces and after-school programming.
Politics
The modern defund movement has roots in Baltimore activism. A new focus on bringing residents into city budgeting could inform the national movement.
After a devastating shooting in a public space, officials embarked on a plan to train city employees — and residents — in alleviating grief and trauma. The work starts this summer, at the library.
Political headwinds and city's high homicide count are challenging the young mayor's plans to improve public safety.
Violence can break out in a matter of seconds. But Roca measures success in years, focusing on changing young people's mindsets.
Philadelphia’s progressive prosecutor is facing a climbing homicide rate, pushback from the police, and skepticism from the community. If he wins, can his platform survive?
Law Enforcement
Newark’s Police Department went a full calendar year without shooting a civilian. But with cops still using force disproportionately against Black residents, activists are split on the future of public safety there.
Brandon Scott believes that outreach workers and social services are as important as the police in reducing Baltimore's gun violence. But political obstacles loom.
2020's shooting surge was overwhelming and in many cities unprecedented. But for outreach workers and other experts, it also led to new ideas and approaches.
In Baltimore, a program for shooting survivors unlocks the healing process by meeting basic needs.
Coronavirus & Guns
2020 is on pace to have the most mass shootings since the nonprofit Gun Violence Archive started tracking them. In their wake, anti-violence activists say the lack of public outpouring feels familiar: “Nobody cares about us.”
As the defund movement grows, Strategic Decision Support Centers have lost the support of politicians — including the man likely to be the next mayor.
