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In sexual misconduct, data offer limited guidance

Vivan Wang

April 13, 2015 |

Yale Daily News |

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Response Location: United States, New Haven, Connecticut

As campuses across the country race to address a burgeoning nationwide conversation about sexual assault, policymakers, politicians, university counselors and students alike are faced with a lack of quantitative information. But Yale University has taken significant steps to collect and distribute information that may finally change the toxic culture of campus sexual assault.

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Glasgow smiles: how the city halved its murders by 'caring people into change'

Peter Geoghegan

April 06, 2015 |

The Guardian |

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Response Location: Scotland, Glasgow

Ten years ago, Glasgow was western Europe’s murder capital. But the Violence Reduction Unit, an offshoot of the police force, invented an offender rehabilitation strategy – borrowed from anti-gang violence initiatives spearheaded in Boston in the 1990s – that combined creative thinking with old-fashioned enforcement.

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Estonia redefines national security in a digital age

Molly McCluskey

March 20, 2015 |

Al Jazeera |

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Response Location: Estonia, Tallinn

Estonia is preparing to protect itself digitally from any neighbouring enemies. To do so it is trying to create 'data embassies', that would have the same protections as physical embassies, in order to protect the digital continuity of the people

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How one of America's most dangerous cities reduced gun violence

Rachel Waldholz Mariel Carr

March 12, 2015 |

Al Jazeera |

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Response Location: United States, Richmond, California

Richmond, California ranked among the highest homicide rates in the country. The city created the Office of Neighborhood Safety to engage the community in the effort to curb gun violence and prevent homicides. ONS works directly with the young people who are at risk and have succeeded in reducing the homicide rate.

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Battling America's other PTSD crisis

Tina Rosenberg

March 06, 2015 |

Yahoo! News |

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Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

A program in Philadelphia is pioneering new ways to treat the urban wounded. By seeing it as PTSD, and not pointing fingers, the city is using mental health tools to decrease violence and heal communities.

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Inside the Revival of One of the Nation's Most Notorious Housing Projects

Chris Peak

March 06, 2015 |

NationSwell |

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Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

SHIELDS for Families works in one of the country's most notoriously dilapidated housing projects to revitalize the neighborhood by providing education, treatment and counseling services.

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Behind LA's dramatic decline in gang violence

Ann Brenoff

February 24, 2015 |

The Huffington Post |

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Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

In the past, Los Angeles was a dangerous city fraught with gang wars. Lately, though, LA has become a safer city due to six changes enforced by the police cracking down on public violence and gangs.

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How is Europe countering radical Islam?

Peter Ford Sara Miller Llana

February 18, 2015 |

The Christian Science Monitor |

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Response Location: Netherlands, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Teenagers around the world are at risk of indoctrination by Islamic extremism and volunteering to fight for the Islamic state. Different European nations seek to make Islamic extremism unattractive to youth by bolstering surveillance efforts, internet outreach, and teaching the Islam of peace.

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The End of Gangs

Sam Quinones

December 29, 2014 |

Pacific Standard |

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Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

In 2014, the Los Angeles Police Department announced that gang-related crime had dropped by nearly half since 2008. The transformation of LA holds lessons for decreasing violent crime through community policing, a focus on gangs, and the use of CompStat.

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Colombia's Data-Driven Fight Against Crime

Tina Rosenberg

November 20, 2014 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: Colombia, Medellín, Antioquia

Colombia has attempted to decrease murder and homicide rates by setting up curfews for teenagers, forcing bars to close earlier in the evening, and creating gun laws to prevent the carrying of weapons. As a result of this epidemiological, data-driven approach, along with other governmental factors, the homicide rate has decreased significantly in most of the cities in which it was implemented.

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