For the past two years, the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism has partnered with other media organizations on Precious Lives, a wide-ranging effort that examined the causes and consequences of gun violence on Milwaukee youth.
Category: Precious Lives
For the past two years, the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism has partnered with other media organizations on Precious Lives, a wide-ranging effort that examined the causes and consequences of gun violence on Milwaukee youth.
Precious Lives included stories in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and 100 weekly radio episodes, produced by 371 Productions, which aired on WUWM (89.7 FM) and WNOV (860 AM). The Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism produced investigative reports examining the roots of gun violence and potential solutions in Milwaukee and statewide.
Posted inJustice & Safety, Precious Lives
Background checks, dealer licensing requirements in Wisconsin explained
Federal law requires licensed dealers to subject buyers of handguns, shotguns and rifles to a background check before a sale is made.
Posted inJustice & Safety, Precious Lives
Instructor: Background checks OK but do not keep weapons from criminals
Instructor: ‘Laws are for people that follow laws. Why should we make people who already follow laws follow more laws?’
Posted inJustice & Safety, Precious Lives
Strong public support, pleas from grieving family fail to move Wisconsin on gun background checks
18 states require checks in private sales; the NRA counters that such measures ‘cost law-abiding gun owners time, money, and freedom’
Posted inHealth & Welfare, Justice & Safety, Precious Lives
Focus on traumatic childhood helps victims heal and succeed
Wisconsin is part of a growing nationwide movement to adopt trauma-informed care, an approach that helps people identify and overcome negative childhood experiences. The approach is being used to improve mental health, provide social services and address a wide range of criminal justice problems.
Posted inHealth & Welfare, Justice & Safety, Precious Lives
A day in trauma-informed court: Parents work to regain custody of their kids
Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Mary Triggiano uses a trauma-informed approach when working with adult defendants and juvenile offenders.
Posted inHealth & Welfare, Precious Lives
What is your ACE score?
Studies show that adults with high ACE (adverse childhood experience) scores are more likely to suffer from poor mental and physical health, unemployment and substance abuse problems. Find out your ACE score with this questionnaire.
Posted inHealth & Welfare, Justice & Safety, Precious Lives
What role did trauma-informed care play in alleged juvenile prison abuse?
Critics charge that a trauma-informed care approach led to security breakdowns at Wisconsin’s two juvenile prisons; advocates say both facilities failed to fully implement the program
Posted inEconomy, Health & Welfare, Justice & Safety, Precious Lives
After guns wound and kill, bills pile up for victims and society
Gun violence costs Wisconsinites billions of dollars a year. Taxpayers pay for most of it in medical bills and incarceration costs. Victims suffer lost wages and trauma that can have long-lasting effects. Communities pay through lowered property values and higher police costs.
Posted inGovernment, Health & Welfare, Justice & Safety, Precious Lives
Hundreds hurt, killed when Wisconsin teens get guns
Guns and teens can be a lethal mix. Immaturity and impulsiveness, combined with weapons that can kill with the squeeze of a trigger, have caused death and devastating injuries to Wisconsin children and adults.
Posted inGovernment, Health & Welfare, Justice & Safety, Precious Lives
Child gun laws in Wisconsin
Wisconsin gun laws prohibit children from possessing firearms, with few exceptions.
Posted inJustice & Safety, Precious Lives, WisWatch Blog
LISTEN: What Young People Know About Guns
On this week’s episode of Precious Lives, a two-year project examining gun violence among young people in the Milwaukee area and statewide, reporters Kate Golden and Sean Kirkby visit the Madison area’s Allied Drive Boys and Girls Club to ask children what they know about guns. The reporters found that nearly all of the young people they talked to had some level of experience with guns.