PINE BLUFF (KATV) — The city of Pine Bluff is working to reduce gun violence with a new program called Group Violence Intervention or GVI. The program’s director, Leanita Hughes, said this new initiative started in January. Hughes says they are working behind the scenes to lower gun violence among youth and young adults. She said
SOUTH BEND — It’s been 20 years since Willie Dearing lost her son outside the 7-Eleven at Mayflower Road and Sample Street. At 22 years old, Harris was shot and killed, Dearing says, following an argument with someone who “was a big part of what was going bad in the city of South Bend at
Officials working to prevent gun violence in St. Paul say that their efforts are working, and could become a model for neighboring cities and counties. Director Brooke Blakey with the Office for Neighborhood Safety presented the information to City Council members Wednesday, explaining how efforts between her team, the St. Paul Police Department and community
An unexpected knock at the door in December caught Zeem off guard. He had not been expecting the visit from a social worker, a representative from the District Attorney’s Office, a mentor — called a credible messenger — two police officers, and a mother who had lost a child to violence. They were from the
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Metro Nashville police and government officials hope a new partnership will reduce violent crime and save lives. According to the Metro Nashville Police Department (MNPD), there have been 22 homicides in Nashville so far this year, compared to 15 during the same time period in 2022. Police report just over 200
A city-run initiative that aims to provide services to those at risk of shooting someone or being shot has shown encouraging results in its attempts to help address the city’s gun violence, Philadelphia officials said Tuesday. An evaluation conducted by a University of Pennsylvania researcher said the approach, known as Group Violence Intervention (GVI), helped
CEDAR RAPIDS — Management of Group Violence Intervention, the collaborative community gun violence reduction strategy, has transitioned over the last year, and Cedar Rapids officials say the effort continues to see success in keeping people alive and out of jail. For the last year, nonprofit Foundation 2 Crisis Services has managed the outreach work of
Davenport’s strategy to reduce gun violence is growing, including to other area cities. The Quad Cities Community Foundation awarded Family Resources $300,000 over three years to pay for a full-time staffer to work on Group Violence Intervention, an anti-violence initiative Davenport launched about eight months ago. The Group Violence Intervention, or GVI, strategy followed a
HOPEWELL, Va. (WWBT) – At a specially called meeting in Hopewell Thursday night, city leaders voted unanimously to move forward with the Operation Ceasefire program to curve a recent spike in violence in the city. This comes just days after 8-year-old P’Aris Moore was shot and killed while riding her bike with her friends outside a
The Quad Cities are joining in new efforts to turn around the crisis of gun violence. One of the new measures is one that has been used for years in other parts of the country around the same size as Davenport. The Group Violence Intervention strategy has been up and running since early 2022 in Davenport.