Our Insights Into Safety & Justice


Chicago To Spend $6M On ‘Street Outreach’ To Reduce Gun Violence
The city of Chicago is taking the first steps toward fulfilling Mayor Lori Lightfoot's pledge…
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Lawyers: Immigration Court System Is ‘Red Tape Gone Crazy’
One of the nation's largest legal advocacy groups for immigrants runs a free legal help…
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Joan Esposito: Live, Local, & Progressive
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CBT: Creating the Space Between Impulse and Action
Shootings and gun homicides are often the result of split-second decision-making—people react automatically in tense,…
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Important lessons for Philadelphia from Chicago’s three-year decline in gun violence
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Interview with Eddie Bocanegra, Gun Safety Leader and Senior Director at READI Chicago
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Podcast: Eddie Bocanegra, Gun Safety Leader and Senior Director at READI Chicago
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Chicago Gun Violence Prevention Gets A Boost From Weed Sales In 2020
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Heartland staff responds to ‘disinformation’
This letter to the editor was published in the Beverly Review on December 17, 2019.…
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Criminalizing Individuals Experiencing Homelessness is Cruel, Ineffective, and Definitively Wrong
During Universal Human Rights Month, we join partners across the country to reaffirm that housing…
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Uniting Across Communities
READI Chicago staff from all five community areas gathered this month for our quarterly all-staff…
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Survivor Voice: Luz, Mother and Survivor of SGBV
Español Colombia has high reported rates of rape and domestic violence generally, and national surveys…
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