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Could a community safety hub reduce violence in Lawrence Heights?
Toronto police have opened a new community safety hub in Lawrence Heights. CBC's Naama Weingarten speaks to residents about whether they think it will reduce violence in the neighborhood.
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/9.7134076?cmp=rss

Headlines Africa Feb 26

Africa: Could Soldiers Provide Room for Real Gang and Organised Crime Violence Reductions?: [ISS] The value of army deployments depends on whether they are used to build the capabilities needed for lasting violence reduction. http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TR9bqf #Africa #GangViolence #OrganisedCrime #MilitaryIntervention #ViolenceReduction

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fulanigirl May 5, 2025

#BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter #Abolition #CommunitySafety #ViolenceReduction
Talib Hudson, project director of The New Hood, a community focused think tank was qouted in the Gothamist article. We interviewed him for our podcast recently. You can catch it on our website and our Youtube Channel. 3/3
https://nubiantigerspodcast.com/creating-policy-for-our-hood/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNdd78rjZCY

Creating Policy for Our Hood - Nubian Tigers Podcast

Our guest for this episode is Dr. Talib Hudson, the Project Director for a new think tank called “The New Hood.” The think tank is Talib’s brainchild. For years he envisioned a think tank that focuses specifically on developing policies around violence reduction for the “hood.” And by the “hood” he means those metropolitan Black ... Creating Policy for Our Hood

Nubian Tigers Podcast

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fulanigirl May 5, 2025

#BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter #Abolition #CommunitySafety #ViolenceReduction As mentioned in the story above, progress is always fragile, and is often made more tenuous by callous government action. This second link highlights how difficult government can make it for community based programs to work effectively. The open secret is state and federal governments don’t always want a reduction in violence because it fuels their demands to add more police. 2/3
https://www.berkeleyside.org/2025/04/30/doj-alameda-county-nonprofits-grants-terminated

Berkeley nonprofit’s violence prevention program defunded by Trump administration

The Justice Department announced last week that it would terminate $811M in grants. Berkeley-based BOSS stands to lose hundreds of thousands.

Berkeleyside

fulanigirl May 5, 2025

#BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter #Abolition #CommunitySafety #ViolenceReduction
Its been a while since an #Abolition story could break through the news. But here’s an example of how community can work together to prevent violence, as happened in this community in East Harlem.
https://gothamist.com/news/how-community-activists-police-and-residents-drove-down-shootings-in-east-harlem
The police were involved but as you can see, the real work is community led. 1/3

How community activists, police and residents drove down shootings in East Harlem

A yearslong collaboration has helped reduce gun violence in the neighborhood to its lowest level since 2019, city data shows.

Gothamist

Jared Rutecki Jul 26, 2024

Advocates, Business Leaders Say Collaboration is Key in Reducing Gun Violence in #Chicago: ‘We Can’t Talk at People, We Have to Listen’ #crime #violencereduction https://news.wttw.com/2024/07/25/advocates-business-leaders-say-collaboration-key-reducing-gun-violence-chicago-we-can-t

Advocates, Business Leaders Say Collaboration is Key in Reducing Gun Violence in Chicago: ‘We Can’t Talk at People, We Have to Listen’

At an event in Homan Square, panelists ranging from youth violence prevention organizers to people who work in banking shared how they’re trying to curb violence in the city.

WTTW News