Commentaries

The streets of Wilmington were beset by bloodshed last year, with a record 39 people killed by bullets. The carnage led the mayor to decry

Less than a quarter of one percent of Davenport residents are driving roughly half of gun violence in the city, according to new statistics compiled

MINNEAPOLIS — The Office of Violence Prevention in Minneapolis, under the direction of Sasha Cotton, will soon have a new leader. “I have accepted a

On the heels of a spike in gun fire in 2020, and months after forming a closed-doors task force to address gun violence in Davenport,

A comprehensive plan from the city — unveiled last year as residents’ concerns over violence reached fever pitch — aims to tamp down crime while

The OGVP will be working with the National Network for Safe Communities which is a research center at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice

U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS — Governor Albert Bryan Jr. and Office of Gun Violence Prevention Executive Director Antonio Emanuel met with representatives from the National Network

The Midlands faith-based organization MORE Justice is calling on the community to invest $50,000 in a gun violence prevention study that aims to address the

Dozens of members of a Lexington faith group gathered outside Lexington’s city government headquarters Tuesday evening to demand that Mayor Linda Gorton implement a specific

More than 100 clergy, activists and supporters — nearly all of them bearing signs naming one of the more than 150 people killed in Richmond

This past May, the Cedar Rapids police department implemented the Group Violence Intervention Program. Police Chief Wayne Jerman said the GVI plays a huge part