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Campus Security
ChicagoTalks reporters found only a handful of the 63 colleges and universities in Cook County are following an Illinois law -- the Campus Security Enhancement Act of 2008 (SB 2691) -- aimed to make campuses safe. Under the law, colleges and universities are required to create all-hazard emergency and violence prevention plans, along with threat assessment teams and violence prevention committees. The schools are also required to hold annual security trainings. ChicagoTalks reporters contacted, often repeatedly, every public and private, two and four-year college and university in Cook County, and determined that 11 schools appear to be violating the law, while 45 schools provided conflicting or incomplete information -- or no information at all. Reporters found just seven schools in compliance.
Tags: campus security; Cook County; violence prevention; colleges; universities
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Victims of Silence
The story reviews dating violence in Florida, as well as the beating of Rihanna by boyfriend Chris Brown. This revealed a number of issues, including “lack of prevention programs, the impact this news had, and that dating violence is under the domestic violence law only to ask for injunction and protection orders”. Further, dating violence isn’t considered a crime and many times is underreported after a physical attack.
Tags: abuse; relationships; physical; police reports; law enforcement; beating; Council and National Crime Forum; emotional violence; sexual violence; law
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Justice By Geography
Years after the 2000 Gang Violence and Juvenile Crime Prevention Act passed in California, Orange County-area prosecutors "top the list of district attorneys who most use the discretionary waiver to charge teens as young as 14 as adults." The original act was meant to "target hardcore gang members and juvenile offenders who commit heinous, violent crimes." Among the stories is the tale of Rene Garcia, who faces a life sentence for murder, even though he did not pull the trigger.
Tags: juvenile justice; juvenile offenders; juvenile crime; juveniles charged as adults; accessory
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Cop Out
Illinois Times profiles Renatta Frazier, an African American police officer, who was accused of failing to prevent the rape of a white woman, daughter of a fellow officer, by several black men. "The Springfield Police Department drove Renatta Frazier off the force, and never let the truth get in the way," Rhodes writes. The story reveals that Frazier, who was accused of mishandling the 911 call about the rape, could not have prevented it, as the rape had already occurred.
Tags: minorities; crime; African Americans; racism; affirmative action; sexual assault; violence
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Did the military let this woman die?
Glamour Magazine asks whether the American military is doing enough to prevent spousal abuse. "Long before the shocking spousal murders at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, made headlines this summer, Glamour was conducting an in-depth investigation of domestic violence in the military."
Tags: Fort Bragg; spousal abuse; American military; soldiers; wives; military police; law enforcement; domestic abuse
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Invisible Scourge
The New Times reports on the invisibility of the problem of gang violence. Much more time and attention is devoted to "preventing the next Columbine" than to combating gang violence, even though no shootings have ever happened in Arizona schools . In the meantime, incidents of gang violence continues to rise. One of the key problems cited by the article is poor media attention. Another is an unresponsive legislature and governor.
Tags: gangs; homicides; National Youth Gang Center; gang legislation
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Net Loss
In a special report, the New Times reports on gangs and the programs that are in place (or not in place) to prevent them. Rising gang membership and the decline in after-school and summer programs for kids in poor neighborhoods seem to go hand in hand. This four-part series deals with programs that target at-risk kids, the importation of gangs to Phoenix, and problems faced by sports programs and church groups that are trying to make a difference.
Tags: gangs; violence; youth programs; after-school programs; little league; church programs
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Marked For Death
Westword reports on federal inmate Tony Francis, whose case highlights the inability of the Department of Prisons to prevent violence or protect prisoners from each other. Prisoners who "check-in" to protective custody make themselves even more of a target than a prisoner who won't defend himself. Tony Francis' solution was to get caught escaping and isolated without the stigma of being a snitch.
Tags: federal prisons; protective custody; race; violence
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RAGE
A father beats his son's hockey coach to death; a man shoots seven co-workers because his paycheck was being garnished; a mother of three is shot to death by another woman in a traffic argument; an airline worker has permanent neck injury after being thrown by a passenger (whom he was preventing from retrieving his 2-year-old daughter who had run down the jetway). The ABA journal reports on third party-liability -- such as airlines, workplaces and sporting leagues -- for violent acts. Tort lawyers predict "third-party liability for injuries caused by violent acts of rage will continue to evolve over the next several years," the journal reports.
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Deadly Lessons: School Shooters Tell Why
In a two-part series, the Chicago Sun-Times reports on the results of the Secret Service analysis of 37 school shootings, "the findings of the study deserve the attention of every adult. . . In their own words, the boys who have killed in America's schools offer a simple suggestion to prevent it from happening again: Listen to us." The study suggest that there are no stereotypes of a child who kills. They come from a variety of backgrounds, ethnicities, incomes and family lives. Rather, the child sees this as the only option and many of the attacks were planned in advance. In addition, many of the shooters easily obtained guns and often told someone of their planned attack. "The answer, researchers believe, lies more in listening to children, dealing fairly with grievances such as bullying, improving the climate of communication in schools, keeping guns away from children, and investigating promptly and thoroughly when a student raises a concern." Bill Dedman reports more on these issues.
Tags: children; schools; violence; Secret Service; Department of Education; Center for the Prevention of School Violence; teachers; parents; police