When are blacks going to address the problems within their community that are the cause of all this? When are they going to start fixing what's wrong within their communities?
CeaseFire began in 1995, and after five years of strategy development, had its first program in the West Garfield Park neighborhood where it achieved a 67% drop in shootings and killings. Following four more replications of the new model – averaging a 42% drop in shootings and killings – the work was expanded to 15 communities and in 2004, Chicago had a 25% drop in killings, with a 50% drop in the CeaseFire zones. Since then CeaseFire has been active in 18 communities in Chicago and 7 communities in Illinois. The method has had an extensive multi-year multi-method evaluation supported by the
U.S. Department of Justice.
Good! The community needs to take hold of the problem but this program is still not addressing the root cause.
The info in your link is not current, bottom of article says 11/2009.
This is from April, 2016.
"CHICAGO — Murders in the nation's third-largest city are up about 72%, while shootings have surged more than 88% in the first three months of 2016 compared with the same period last year, according to data released Friday by the Chicago Police Department.
Police said the disturbing rise in violence is driven by gangs and mostly contained to a handful of pockets on the city's South and West sides."
Chicago's murder rate soars 72% in 2016; shootings up more than 88%