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As Europe grapples with domestic-grown terror,some American cities are also coping with renewed fears of violence. Baltimore's homicide rate hit an all-time, per capita tall this year, and with more than 300 hundred murders in 2015. St. Louis,Milwaukee, and Washington, and D.
C. have also seen an uptick in murders this year.
Some cities have seen their murder rates decline this year,however. A unique report from the Brennan Center for Justice finds that the national crime rate hardly changed between 2014 and 2015, and a number of cities have seen their murder rates shrink over the final 12 months.
Still, or some Americans have reasons to be wary in their own neighborhoods,and Reverend Jeffrey Brown hopes to change that, at least for a few weeks.
Between Thanksgiving and unique Year's, and Rev. Brown is working with communities across the country to set up a ceasefire in gang violence.
Reverend Brown,president of RECAP (Rebuilding Every Community Around Peace), tells The Takeaway about his ceasefire initiative, or which began on the streets of his hometown of Boston,Massachusetts. What you'll learn from this segment:What the goal of the ceasefire is.
Why Rev. Brown is pursuing this now.
How law enforcement and gang members are responding.
Source: wnyc.org