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Are mass shootings preventable? These countries have tried

Euan McKirdy Paul Armstrong

October 02, 2015 |

CNN |

Broadcast TV News |

5-15 Minutes

Response Location: Finland

The U.S. continues to experience mass shootings, and many Americans deny that tightening gun laws will help. However, countries like Australia, the United Kingdom, Finland, and Norway have reduced gun violence through stricter regulations.

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How Australia and Britain Tackled Gun Violence

Margaret Hartmann

October 02, 2015 |

New York Magazine |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Australia

The U.S. continues to resist restrictive gun laws. Australia and Britain significantly decreased mass shootings through the banning of certain guns, more restrictive permits, buyback programs, and a national firearms registration system.

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Study: Low Injury Rate Shows Gun-Control Laws Work

Chad Blair

August 19, 2015 |

Honolulu Civil Beat |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Hawaii

Hawaii is one of the states with strongest gun laws and lowest gun death rates. A study found that states with stricter gun control laws, ammo regulation, background checks, and reporting of lost firearms had the lowest injury rates.

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Why police don't pull guns in many countries

Sara Miller Llana

June 28, 2015 |

The Christian Science Monitor |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Germany, Selm, North Rhine-Westphalia

More-rigorous police training, changing the way officers interact with residents, and requiring more education for cops has helped limit police shootings in Germany, Britain, Canada, and other nations. Their approaches may serve as a model the United States, which grapples with a number of police shootings that vastly and exponentially outnumber that of other industrialized countries.

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Gun killings fell by 40 percent after Connecticut passed this law

Jeff Guo

June 12, 2015 |

The Washington Post |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Connecticut

Researchers at Johns Hopkins and Berkeley say that Connecticut’s “permit-to-purchase” law requiring people to get a purchasing license before buying a handgun - despite early criticism - was actually a huge success for public safety in reducing gun homicides, especially relative to other states.

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The controversial method that helped turn one of America's most murderous cities into one of its safest

Terrence McCoy

June 01, 2015 |

The Washington Post |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Richmond, California

The Office of Neighborhood Safety in Richmond, CA took a radical new approach to urban violence by creating mechanisms to financially stabilize perpetrators of violent acts in crime-ridden neighborhoods - essentially paying people not to kill. They have been dramatically successful at weening violent criminals off the destructive behavior by using a comprehensive approach that includes using solid data, employing mentors with similar backgrounds to the criminals, and monetary incentives.

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Police Rethink Long Tradition on Using Force

Matt Apuzzo

May 04, 2015 |

The New York Times |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States

Some U.S. police departments are reevaluating the “21-foot rule” and other axioms regarding proper use of force. “In a democratic society, people have a say in how they are policed, and people are saying that they are not satisfied with how things are going,” said Chief Sean Whent of Oakland, one of the cities that has changed policies and reduced police shootings.

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

Rachel Waldholz Mariel Carr

March 12, 2015 |

Al Jazeera |

Video |

5-15 Minutes

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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Over 3000 Words

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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Colombia's Data-Driven Fight Against Crime

Tina Rosenberg

November 20, 2014 |

The New York Times |

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1500-3000 Words

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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