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What Is CeaseFire?

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What Is CeaseFire?

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CeaseFire uses prevention, intervention and community-mobilization strategies to reduce shootings and killings. The program was launched in Chicago in 1999 by the Chicago Project for Violence Prevention at the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health. By 2004, 25 CeaseFire sites existed in Chicago and a few other Illinois cities. Some of the program’s strategies were adapted from the public health field, which has had notable success in changing dangerous behaviors. For example, public health campaigns have helped to decrease smoking and increase childhood immunizations. In fact, the program’s executive director, Gary Slutkin, is an epidemiologist who views shootings as a public health issue. As the researchers note in their report, a significant amount of street violence is “surprisingly casual in character.” Men shoot one another in disputes over women, or because they feel they have been “dissed.” Simply driving through rival gang territory can be fatal. In the gang

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