Although the rate of firearms victimization remained statistically unchanged during the study period, CRED participants were significantly less likely to engage in assaults.
New research shows large reductions in gun violence involvement for participants of a Chicago-based community violence intervention (CVI) program.Researchers from Northwestern University evaluated outcomes for the Chicago CRED (Create Real Economic D
Among the issues facing lawmakers as they return to Springfield this week: whether to extend a measure that increases minimum prison sentences for repeat gun possession offenders.
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After more than 770 homicides were recorded in Chicago in 2016, then-Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s administration pressed Illinois lawmakers to pass a measure that would increase minimum prison sentences for repeat gun possession offenders. The law that legislators ultimately approved took effect in 2018, and was a rare bit of policy common ground for Emanuel and Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner. But in .