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Philadelphia
To keep 1,100 vacancies from impeding the city’s progress on reducing gun violence, the police commissioner has dispatched all new recruits to patrol duty. The tactic seems to be showing early promise.
Chicago
Survivors are choosing to transport themselves to the hospital instead of waiting for emergency services. Experts say the Chicago Fire Department isn’t doing everything it can to improve slow response times.
Community Violence
The $10 million initiative is funded by the Joe Biden-era American Rescue Plan Act, an economic stimulus package set to expire this year.
Stylists and clients at two beauty salons spoke to a Trace reporter about how the city’s decline in homicides has translated into real life.
Philadelphia’s police department has a troubled history with use of force, especially in the Black community.
A Trace analysis found that between Jan. 2021 and Nov. 2024, the rate of incidents with response times longer than six minutes grew by 4.6 percentage points.
In his new book, media scholar Jabari M. Evans explores how rappers use the subgenre to gain clout.
Experts say deployments like Operation Legend often bring a rise in excessive enforcement.
City officials credit multiple factors for the historic declines in shootings, homicides, and other firearm-related crimes.
A Decade of American Gun Violence
In a new analysis, The Trace figured out the number of people who might have lived if gun violence had remained at its 2019 level.
Throughout 2024, I felt good about the steady decline of shootings in my home city of Philadelphia. That changed exactly 12 days before Christmas, when one of the most dangerous weekends of the year reminded me that gun violence remains an epidemic.
Black boys don’t have the time, space, or tools to grieve their losses, Nora Gross argues in a book she wrote after spending two years with a tight-knit group of teens.
As Midwestern cities reject calls for police reform, a chief deputy in Ohio is fighting for a community policing approach to gun violence.
Since a city driver was fatally shot on the job in October 2023, the public and transit workers have been asking for more security. In 2025, Philly’s pilot program will start by retrofitting eight buses with plexiglass.
A City Cast Chicago podcast episode goes behind the scenes of The Trace’s three-month workshop.
