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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, In 1995, the Chicago Project for Violence |
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| Prevention began planning a public health strategy to increase |
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| neighborhood safety; the goals of this multi-pronged |
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| anti-violence intervention include decreasing shootings and |
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| killings, changing norms of violence in high crime |
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| neighborhoods, and creating positive opportunities for the |
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| highest risk individuals; and the full implementation of this |
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| plan, called "CeaseFire", began in 2000; and
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| WHEREAS, As a result of the CeaseFire project, West |
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| Garfield Park (WGP) saw two periods of 90 days each with no |
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| shootings during the spring and summer of 2000; this was |
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| previously unheard of in that community; WGP went on to see a |
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| 67% (from 43 to 14) reduction in shootings for 2000; and
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| WHEREAS, Since that time the reduction has been maintained |
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| and subsequent reductions have been seen in at least 5 new |
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| CeaseFire implementation areas; during 2001-2003, the new |
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| CeaseFire communities experienced average decreases in |
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| shootings from 33-65%; in 2004, the seven communities fully |
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| implementing CeaseFire again averaged 48% reductions in |
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| shootings; and in addition, the Logan Square community had a |
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| drop in homicides from 12 to 1 (92% reduction); and
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| WHEREAS, The Chicago Project for Violence Prevention is |
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| housed at the School of Public Health at the University of |
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| Illinois at Chicago; and
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| WHEREAS, There are long waiting periods between |
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| expenditures from CeaseFire operations and State |
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| reimbursements from the Department of Corrections; and
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| WHEREAS, Funding that is directly given to the University |
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| of Illinois at Chicago for CeaseFire administration would |