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Parkland Students Visit the Bronx

As part of a national 'March For Our Lives' tour, survivors of the Parkland, Fla., school shooting, including David Hogg (pictured), met and marched with young people from S.O.S. Bronx.

New York City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito
Melissa Mark-Viverito Drops By

Former New York City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito visited our Save Our Streets' South Bronx office.

SOS talent show
Paying Tribute to His Dad

At the Stop Shooting, Start Living talent show, Lavon Walker Jr. performs a dance tribute to his father, Lavon Walker, a founding member of S.O.S. Crown Heights who was fatally shot in Miami.

SOS rapid response
Responding Rapidly to Violence

Laverne Mobley, the aunt of a 19-year-old shooting victim, addresses a rapid response event in Brownsville. Mobley tells the crowd, “We will not kill each other… Stand up for something, or you’re going to fall for anything.” Find out more.

Publications & Digital Media

  • Publication

    Fact Sheet: The Bronx Community Justice Center

    The Bronx Community Justice Center works to create a safer, more equitable Bronx through community-driven public safety initiatives, youth opportunity, and economic mobility efforts focused in the South Bronx. Our vision is to support the South Bronx community to become a safe and thriving place where local ownership, community-led investment, and youth opportunity can flourish. The Bronx Community Justice Center works toward this vision by focusing on community safety, restorative practices, and youth and economic development.

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    Cages Don't Help Us Heal

    Hurt people hurt people. That's not an excuse for harm, but it fuels much of the criminal justice system. At 19, Marlon Peterson was the unarmed lookout on a robbery where two people were killed. Peterson spent a decade behind bars. He writes about those years, and the childhood in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, that preceded them, in his new memoir. I made my own choices, Peterson says, “but I also did not choose to experience the type of things I experienced.”

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News

  • How Treating Gun Violence Like A Disease Helps Stem The Rise In Deadly Shootings

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    The nation's first violence interruption model for preventing gun violence and conflict, Cure Violence—founded in Chicago in 2000—treats violence like a disease, aiming to "'interrupt' the spread of that disease by hiring people from the community to prevent or mediate violent conflicts." This public health approach has since been adopted throughout the country, including in New York with the Center's Save Our Streets (S.O.S.) programs in Brooklyn and the Bronx since the 2010s.

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