Community Violence

Chicago

Combat Veterans Help Troubled Chicago Teens Cope with the War at Home

In the Urban Warriors program, former soldiers mentor inner-city kids exposed to constant gun violence.

Chicago

Chicago’s Most Popular Crime Guns: The Raw Data

In a follow up to our ranking of the top 20 crime guns used in Chicago, here is an itemized list — including the make, model, and caliber — of the 4,505 firearms connected to crimes in the city in 2014.

Chicago

Chicago Criminals’ Favorite Gunmakers: A Visual Ranking

Police data reveals that drug money is helping the city’s gang members buy more firepower, while decades-old ‘Saturday Night Specials’ continue to claim victims.

City Limits

How to Tell a Mass Shooting from Gang Gunfire, and Other Lessons from the Forgotten Streets of San Bernardino

While investigators gathered evidence at the Inland Regional Center in the hours after the December 2 attack, longterm residents shared stories of one of the most overlooked strains of gun violence.

Community Violence

13 Mass Shootings You May Have Missed This Year

The deadliest incidents understandably generate the most intense interest. Meanwhile, the everyday gun violence that plagues some communities goes overlooked.

Community Violence

The CDC Just Released a ‘Gun Violence’ Study

But the agency did it while avoiding actually studying guns' role in the violence it was researching — a line it is still at pains not to cross.

Community Violence

Schools Across the Country Are Reviving This 20-Year-Old Anti-Gun Violence Pledge

A Minnesota woman wrote the vow in 1996 before fading off the scene. Now Mary Lewis Grow is redoubling her efforts.

Chicago

Watch How Chicago Gets Flooded with Thousands of Crime Guns

Last year, 88 percent of the guns recovered in Illinois were seized in Chicago. More than half of them came from out of state.

Community Violence

Mandatory Minimums Are Unpopular With Everyone — Except Mayors of Gun-Ravaged Cities

Local leaders say they know the drawbacks of harsh prison sentences, but can't wait for federal action to reduce shootings.

City Limits

‘My Job in the City Right Now Is to Try to Calm It Down’

When Stevie Moore’s child was murdered in Memphis, he wanted revenge. Instead, he vowed to stop others from acting on that impulse.

City Limits

‘They Leave Teddy Bears on the Corners of Streets Where Someone Was Shot, and They’re Everywhere in Liberty City’

Accounts from the front lines of urban gun violence. This week: A turbulent Miami neighborhood where pushers sell guns and illegal concealed carry licenses at swap meets.

Chicago

‘The Reality Doesn’t Set in Until You’re in the Medical Examiner’s Office and You Really Take a Look at Your Daughter.’

Accounts from the front lines of urban gun violence. This week: Two prominent Chicago activists on what it's like to lose a loved one to a fatal shooting after fighting so hard to stop them.

City Limits

‘I’m Mad. I Have a Right to Be.’ Three Residents of Washington, D.C. on the Human Costs of Their City’s Surging Gun Violence

Accounts from the front lines of urban gun violence. This week: Stories from a capital city where murders have already matched last year's total, and shootings are spilling outside the hardest-bitten neighborhoods.

Community Violence

An ATF Official on How Trafficked Guns Are Like Cockroaches

Spot treatments don't work if the larger problem is left unchecked.

City Limits

‘We’re at War Here in Roanoke, With Each Other.’

Accounts from the front lines of urban gun violence. This week: Roanoke, Virginia, site of last week's on-air murders — and an overlooked spike in fatal shootings.