Last week, Mayor Katie Wilson introduced a multi-faceted plan to reduce gun violence in Seattle based on City auditor ...

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — For almost a year, the community has heard mentions of a tactic called "focused deterrence" when talking about violence prevention in Kansas City, Missouri. In May of 2023, city and ...

GREENVILLE, N.C. (WNCT) – 9 On Your Side continues to follow a story it first reported at 10 on Eastern North Carolina’s CW. Police arrested Desmond Moore and Chinedum Ekwuribe for selling drugs out ...

Police and Mayor Quinton Lucas say a focus on deterrence, community partners and youth curfews could help stem the record violence of last year, when there were seven homicides over Memorial Day ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas City is bringing back an old program known as focused deterrence to reduce homicides, hoping to see sustained improvements. "Everyone wants to do a rally, a prayer vigil,” ...

Mayor Katie Wilson said Tuesday that Seattle will announce a gun violence prevention strategy next week after three people were killed and four others were wounded in a series of shootings in and near ...

A new report examines data from more than 1,400 studies of programs such as broken windows policing, gun buybacks, therapy, and other attempts to curtail death and violence in American cities.

Jackson County’s new Arson Focused Deterrence Initiative charged a man this week in connection with another fire at Olive ...