ABC News: ‘A lifelong recovery’: 2-year-old girl’s journey after she was shot by a stray bullet
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/lifelong-recovery-2-year-girls-journey-after-shot/story?id=100425355
Author: Jonathan S Jay
NPR’s Morning Edition: How one Oregon community reduced gun violence by 60%
JONATHAN JAY: “Community members know a lot about what this problem looks like in their neighborhood and can generate great ideas – often the best ideas.” https://www.npr.org/2022/04/13/1092522408/one-community-s-creative-strategy-to-reduce-gun-violence
TIME: Black Kids Were Already Exposed to More Gun Violence Than White Kids. The Pandemic Widened That Gap
Details a RISE Lab research paper led by Project Manager Rachel Martin: Before the COVID-19 pandemic began, the Black population in the United States was already more at risk than the white of being exposed to gun violence. Now, a recent study out of Boston University has revealed a disturbing trend in how that trend evolved during […]
BUSPH: Firearm Injuries Increased during First Year of COVID in Massachusetts
https://www.bu.edu/sph/news/articles/2022/firearm-injuries-increased-during-first-year-of-covid-in-massachusetts/
BBC’s Cut Through the Noise: America’s deadly surge in gun violence
https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews/videos/810052189705493/
CNN: Gun violence surging in the US since the start of the pandemic. What can be done to address it?
The Hill: How to apply COVID-19 lessons to outbreak of gun violence
By Jonathan Jay and Amber Goodwin, Opinion Contributors Outside the headlines of the COVID-19 pandemic, America’s long-running gun violence epidemic gained strength last year. Media coverage of mass shootings may have slowed, but the number of Americans fatally assaulted with firearms increased by 35 percent in U.S. cities. A surge of this magnitude has no modern precedent. It […]
Preview: Gun Violence 20/20 City Tracker
The first take from our Gun Violence 20/20 project is now live for preview! Community-based responses to gun violence require timely local data. The RISE Lab City Tracker tracks gun violence in the 100 biggest cities in the U.S. It’s designed to support data-driven efforts to bend the curve on city gun violence, which spiked by […]