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The Rantoul Police Department failed to follow through on recommendations to further train officers on how to use force after the city’s first two fatal shootings. Photo by Farrah Anderson, Invisible Institute/Illinois Public Media

After fatal shootings, Rantoul police recommended more training. They just sent one officer to a gun range

Post author:Farrah Anderson, Invisible Institute/Illinois Public Media
Post published:February 9, 2024
Post category:Government Justice Public Funds

This story is part of a partnership focusing on police misconduct in Champaign County between the Champaign-Urbana Civic Police Data Project of the Invisible Institute, a Chicago-based…

Read more about the article Champaign and Urbana shootings fall since 2021 peak; cities pondering what preventive programs worked

Darrell Hoemann

Looking south to the Champaign Police Department Building on First Street. Photo by Darrell Hoemann/CU-CitizenAccess

Champaign and Urbana shootings fall since 2021 peak; cities pondering what preventive programs worked

Post author:Andrew Prozorovsky / For CU-CitizenAccess
Post published:September 25, 2023
Post category:Government Neighborhoods

In the past eight years, Champaign and Urbana witnessed a steep hike in gun violence and then a swift decline after 2021 — but…

Read more about the article Champaign gunshot detection tech not meeting expectations

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The city council voted 6-3 on a resolution "Authorizing the Purchase and Installation of Automated License Plate Readers, Gunshot Detection, and Related Equipment from Flock Group, Inc.," in December 2021.

Champaign gunshot detection tech not meeting expectations

Post author:Andrew Prozorovsky / For CU-CitizenAccess
Post published:September 13, 2023
Post category:Government Neighborhoods Technology

On February 13 this year, a one-year pilot program began in Champaign with Raven gunshot detection technology. Records obtained in a Freedom of Information…

A map of shootings in Champaign from Jan. 1, 2016 to Nov. 15, 2021. It was released in the Community Violence Reduction Blueprint, which was released in February 2022.

Of 50 victims, young minorities harmed most by flurry of Champaign gun violence

Post author:Heather Robinson / For CU-CitizenAccess and Andrew Prozorovsky / For CU-CitizenAccess
Post published:August 25, 2022
Post category:Justice Neighborhoods

There were 50 lethal shootings in the city of Champaign between 2015 and the first half of 2022. Of those 50 victims, 15 were…

Read more about the article Garden Hills residents feel ‘neglected’ by Champaign over years

Darrell Hoemann

Garden Hills looking east on Paula Drive from Mattis Avenue on Wednesday, December 15, 2021. Photo by Darrell Hoemann/CU-CitizenAccess

Garden Hills residents feel ‘neglected’ by Champaign over years

Post author:Nic Meister / For CU-CitizenAccess
Post published:December 20, 2021
Post category:Neighborhoods Public Funds

For years, Garden Hills residents, property owners and advocates have been unsuccessfully pleading with the city of Champaign for improved living conditions, more city funding and reduced crime. While plans are underway for some improvements, some said it should have come sooner.

‘Down The Hill:’ Violence Often Rooted In Inequality

Post author:Cass Herrington / Illinois Newsroom
Post published:May 21, 2018
Post category:Justice

In one neighborhood in Peoria, two families touched by violence are making difficult decisions for themselves and their communities. Cass Herrington reports on their ongoing efforts to reclaim their neighborhood.