Chicago’s Anti-Violence Workers Face Fight on Two Fronts
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How the fight against COVID-19 is affecting the fight against violent crime.
Even in the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic, gun violence in Chicago has not stopped. So far in 2020, there have been 141 homicides in the city, most of them gun-related. And as temperatures rise, the grim statistics are expected to go up as well.
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Chicago’s Anti-Violence Workers Face Fight on Two Fronts
Clip: 4/27/2020 | 8m 32sVideo has Closed Captions
Even in the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic, gun violence in Chicago has not stopped. So far in 2020, there have been 141 homicides in the city, most of them gun-related. And as temperatures rise, the grim statistics are expected to go up as well.
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