https://www.businessperspectives.org/images/pdf/applications/publishing/templates/article/assets/2797/PPM_EN_2009_03_Talbert.pdf. (n.d.).
This article focuses on the way an organization called Harlem Mothers Stop Another Violent End (SAVE) which started when the founders lost their own children to gun violence. Their mission is to be able to give the youth an opportunity to have a longer life and helping them avoid the gun violence within the community. The organization collaborates with a lot of the politicians and government officials, as well as passing several antigun bills. They have also been able to join different organizations such as Safe Horizon, the NYC Minister Society and the NYC department of parks and recreations which are also working on stopping youth gun violence. This organization continues to educate children, hosting community events as well as educational events. One of the statistics that stood out to me the most was “The number of youths reporting that they carried a weapon to school in the past month was 19,000 (7%) and 1 in 4 of those same teens (24%) also reported that they skipped school because they felt unsafe either going to school or being at school”.
https://academicworks.cuny.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1468&context=jj_pubs.
This article focuses on the perceptions of violence in Harlem, the article is mostly based on
Research and survey responses which was conducted at John Jay College. The survey and data
represented the age ranges from 18-30 in various neighborhoods around the city. The research
revolved around how aware youth and young men were aware of the violence around them as well
as their experience around violence. The article highlights a lot of data including the percentage
of them having exposure to gun, exposure to violence prevention, as well as confrontations. It
summarizes how young men in Harlem report how young men are not willing to contact police in
the event of violence.
https://www.kff.org/other/issue-brief/the-impact-of-gun-violence-on-children-and-adolescents/.
This article focuses on firearm injuries in the United States and the way it has increased within
the youth. “During the pandemic, firearm related deaths increased among children with seven
children per day dying by firearm in 202. From 2011 to 2021, nearly 18,500 children ages 17
and younger died by firearm”. The increase in firearms was mostly between Blacks and
Hispanics, one of the research’s showed how the increase was found in children living in
poverty areas. One of the data in the article showed the data with different races and the deaths
within the firearms, I can say I agree with the chart because the part of Harlem where I live is
mostly young African American males who are every day fighting with one another as well as
ready to kill each other over minor things.
https://link-springer-com.bmcc.ezproxy.cuny.edu/article/10.1007/s11133-022-09510-w
This article focuses on how social media contributes to the violence that is happening within
Youth and one another. The article speaks a lot about how social media influences the behavior
As well as perpetrates victims, for example there was a small portion on how a conversation
goes on social media. “She [a woman closely tied to Muderville] gon set him, up maybe…They
get that girl to send you a text or something, all like ‘Come meet me over here. I wanna see you.
Stuff like that. Then when we get over there, they’re all outside waiting for him. That show you
Get caught up”. This right here is a perfect example on how youths now in days, get each other
caught up within situations as well as getting each other killed. Youth begin confrontations on
social media, and get mutual friends to start conversations as well as having that mutual friend
become the person who is going to have the person killed which is horrible. Now in days youths
get so scared about getting harmed, for not doing what they’re asked of, only because they are
afraid to get hurt themselves.
https://www.courtinnovation.org/sites/default/files/documents/Juvenile_Gangs_Needs_Assessment.pdf
This article focuses more on factual crime in Harlem, it speaks a lot on the ages 11 to 21. In the
Last few years youth gun violence has been increasing in Harlem. One of police officers
Statement in the article state “you know a problem exist when children 12 years old are involved
In shootings”. It is mind blowing how a 12-year-old can obtain and know how to use a
Weapon at that age, people selling these weapons out of corner stores and think it is ok to take a
youth money and give them a weapon not knowing what they are capable of doing. One of the
facts in the article is how NYC department of juvenile in 2008, the districts 10 and 11 which
represent Harlem had the 3rd and 7th highest detention delinquency in youths. A lot of the youths
who reside in Harlem, are affiliated with new gangs that are being created and discovered, but
the lack of data makes it hard to discover who they are.
