Project Topic: Youth/Children

Children First, Detroit, MI 1995

Partners:

Detroit Free Press 
WXYZ-TV (ABC)

Children and violence was the focus of a joint project that grew out of the paper’s “Children First” editorial and community campaign. The effort began with a poll of 1,600 children, aged 9 to 12, in the Detroit area. Nearly one in five said they had witnessed a shooting; almost half knew someone, other than a police officer, who carried a gun. More than 40 percent of children living in the urban core said they worried about being the victim of a crime.  Read more