Democratic Governor JB Pritzker criticized the Trump administration on Thursday to spend or threaten to end a group of violent anti -violence programs, saying, “Public safety is attacked by the Trump administration.”
At a southern event to celebrate the search for the anti -violence program from the public sector in the neighborhoods of Chicago, Pritzker shook a set of cuts and wounds proposed by the administration. Among them is the dissolution of the White House violence bureau, threats of financing for the American alcohol office, tobacco, firearms and explosives and canceling “not tolerance” for “rogue weapons dealers”.
“They facilitate weapons to fall into our societies and are more difficult for us to promise him,” Pretzker told the crowd in the Pullman neighborhood.
Pritzker, whose name appeared among potential presidential candidates, was an explicit critic of the Trump administration, as he continued to attack discounts in many areas, including health care and education.
The ruler also referred to the memo of the US Department of Health and Humanitarian Services, who said that he saw on Thursday, “proposing to eliminate all federal violence funds.”
Pritzker was not words about the potential effect.
“People will die if we cut violence and prevention,” he said. “Why does (Trump) do this? So he can give huge tax cuts to the wealthy in America.”
The Ministry of Health and Humanitarian Services did not respond to the request to comment on the proposed cuts on federal violence boxes.
This event attracted hundreds of violent violence workers from all over the Chicago region to highlight research that shows sharp declines in fire operations over the past two years in parts of the city where the peacekeeping program focused.
The anti -violence workers, known as the Peacekeeping Forces in the Chicago Bird Group, gathered at a Thursday event in Pullman to offer progress in reducing armed violence in Chicago and Cook Province on suburbs.
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The program, which was launched in 2018, rented live people-young and partial-time-to mediate conflicts. It is an extension of what has become known as “societal violence” or CVI. It is now working in 27 community in Chicago and eight suburbs of Cook County.
The study focused on the peacekeeping forces designated for the violence of 201 “hot points” – usually a handful of blocks – in 14 areas of the Chicago community, most of them on the southern and west sides. Peace investigators mediated in 2,172 conflicts with the possibility of violence in 2023 and 2024.
The study found that hot points had a 41 % decrease in fire during the two years. The societal areas that include hot points were 31 % decreased in the victim.
Andrew Babatcheristos, sociologist at North Western University, who led the research, said CVI “provides a great contribution to public safety in Chicago.” “The fact that people carry fewer weapons, go to prison less, and this is a great victory for everyone.”
Papachristos said that the research did not prove that the peacekeeping program caused a reduction in violence, but there was a strong relationship.
Among the speakers of this event is Jacqueline Gamble, 43, who has been a peacekeeper to believe Chicago's non -profit since 2022. This is one of many organizations, including Project Hood and UCAN, which employs these trainees.
Jacqueline Gamble, 43, has been a peacekeeper to study Chicago since 2022. “It was one day that began the fires. I am the fast person who is rushing to get them out now,” she said.
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It is usually concentrated in a corner of only two blocks from where it grew up in the Rosland neighborhood. She said that her experience included shooting in 1997, which had 13 bullets, and two years later in prison.
“I was once the fires began. I am the fast person to put it now,” said Jamble, who is also studying to be a clinical medical assistant.
Gamble's Corner includes a wine store, a 24 -hour store, a restaurant, and a vacant group, where neighbors bring chairs in the garden, play cards and chess.
“My hot point … always alive and vibrant,” Gambal said. “Never a boring moment.”
She also attracts a lot of “RifF-RAF”, and she describes people of all ages looking for wine, cigarettes or food-and they arise loudly.
“I ask what I can do for them.”
“Being a peace guard makes a big difference, because we can gradually intervene,” said Gamble. “We can spread. We can mediate.”
Workers were collected from violent prevention groups throughout the Chicago who are part of the Seacefters on Thursday at the Pullman Community Center to celebrate the progress in reducing armed violence.
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He was sitting near the ruler Farid Waller, who had been working for 34 years as a self -described “old school” policeman before spending four months of 2023 as a temporary supervisor, and recently, as a civilian leader in Sopt. Larry Sinling office.
“Over the years, we did not have a layer of CVI to reach it,” said Waller to WBEZ. “Now, I am amazed at how leaders are communicating with these (civil violence provinces) as soon as there is a violent incident. It is not the end of everything, but it is another class that you can communicate with to help prevent some crime and help prevent violence.”
“We have to trust that these people have changed their lives and we must trust that CPD has changed – to accept what they are now, and not what they were in the past.”
