“We need to make sure that we provide these individuals with a balanced range of incentives to help them change their behavior.”
Adhiti Bandlamudi / WUNC
Outside one of Durham’s homes in the southside neighborhood, someone has kept a sign reading “Peace for the Southside”. Most of Durham’s gun violence is concentrated in areas east and south of downtown.
From KERA:
The number of gun deaths – not including suicides – number about 1,000 a year in Texas. That number has been relatively flat between 2008 and 2017.
Nationally, many American cities report that gun homicides are on the decline. But Durham, North Carolina saw its homicides rise in 2019, leaving residents to cope with what they feel is chronic violence. But the new year has provided the community a chance to reflect, and recommit to the future.
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