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[00:00.12]Gun violence is an issue in Chicago, Illinois,
[00:05.80]America's third largest city.
[00:09.84]The Chicago Tribune reported that 61 people
[00:15.24]were shot in the city during the long Christmas holiday weekend.
[00:21.72]Eleven of those shot died, the newspaper said.
[00:26.08]The holiday weekend ended Monday night.
[00:30.12]The Tribune said the attacks brought
[00:34.16]the total number of shootings for 2016 to more than 4,300.
[00:42.32]The number killed in shootings this year reached 770, it said.
[00:50.24]In 2015, 2,989 people were shot and 492 were killed in gun violence.
[01:03.28]Chicago is not the only city in the United States
[01:09.10]to report an increase in shootings and murders.
[01:14.96]The Brennan Center for Justice is a non-profit research group
[01:20.68]with ties to New York University's Law School.
[01:25.96]It reported last week that the murder rate for 2016 in America's 30 largest cities
[01:36.36]is expected to be 14 percent higher than the rate last year.
[01:43.44]The center blames the increase on fewer police officers working in some cities,
[01:51.68]as well as poverty and increased gang violence.
[01:56.64]But it said that two large cities -- Baltimore and Washington D.C.
[02:04.16]-- have fewer murders this year than in 2015.
[02:09.25]Eddie Johnson is Chicago's Police Superintendent.
[02:15.12]He said 90 percent of those killed in his city
[02:19.68]over Christmas weekend had ties to gangs, criminal histories
[02:26.00]or had been identified as potential offenders or victims.
[02:32.92]Johnson urged politicians to increase sentences for people found guilty of gun crimes.
[02:42.68]"If you pick up a gun and shoot somebody,
[02:46.92]you should go to prison, period, that's the end of the story," he said.
[02:53.56]"Some people want to give them a pass for it. I don't," he added.
[02:59.48]Chicago is working to add police officers
[03:04.88]who more closely represent the ethnicity and races of city residents.
[03:12.28]Rahm Emanuel is mayor of Chicago.
[03:16.36]He said, "Officers come together from different backgrounds, different cultures,
[03:22.76]and different faiths for a common cause:
[03:27.32]to serve and protect the people of the City of Chicago.
[03:32.40]And this whole city will be behind our officers, rooting for their success."
[03:40.56]Gary Slutkin is founder of a group called Cure Violence.
[03:46.76]His group has trained people to work in their communities
[03:51.76]to persuade people to choose non-violent ways of dealing with conflicts.
[03:59.44]Slutkin said the workers often knew when a young person
[04:04.44]was planning a violent act just by living nearby.
[04:09.52]Because they have credibility with their neighbors,
[04:14.16]they often have more influence than police, or even parents, he said.
[04:21.44]Often the "issue" with another young person was not that big a deal
[04:28.52]-- maybe someone spoke to his girlfriend or owes him money.
[04:33.64]His workers, Slutkin said, could persuade young people
[04:39.28]that their problem with another person was not worth a violent response.
[04:46.64]"Sometimes it is simply pointing out that if you go ahead and do it (shoot somebody),
[04:52.04]people are going to be looking for pay back against you
[04:56.36]or you might be spending 20 years or more in prison," Slutkin said.
[05:03.12]But he said a loss of government assistance has left all
[05:07.88]but one city neighborhood without the program this year.
[05:13.76]He believes the lost funding and higher shooting rates are related.
[05:20.44]Slutkin is a professor of epidemiology
[05:25.08]at the University of Illinois' School of Public Health.
[05:30.18]He said his program uses policies developed by health experts to deal with disease.
[05:38.04]It works, he said, because violence can spread
[05:42.80]just like diseases such as AIDS or tuberculosis.
[05:48.16]His Cure Violence Program operates in 25 U.S. cities,
[05:55.32]as well as in other countries, such as South Africa, H
[05:59.88]onduras, Mexico, and prisons in Britain.
[06:05.12]I'm Ashley Thompson.
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