What it means
Intentional, interpersonal violence in public spaces such as streets, parks, schools, and businesses. It usually occurs between unrelated people who may or may not know one another and includes physical assaults, group fights, shootings, and stabbings.
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- Where it shows up
- Residents report recurring fights and shootings around a transit stop, while a dashboard displays all county firearm deaths.
- A useful move
- Ask for incident-level context and local accounts, with privacy protections, to define the specific interpersonal pattern and who is affected.
- What this does not prove
- A county death count does not isolate those incidents; a neighborhood account cannot by itself establish a population trend.
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Community Violence Intervention (CVI)
A set of community-centered approaches that engage people at high risk of violence and connect them with support.
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