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Chicago Organization Uses Ex-Gang Members, Convicts To ‘Interrupt’ Violence, But Will It Work?

“We took a hit.” Tio Hardiman (pictured), director of CeaseFire Illinois and founder of the Violence Interrupter Initiative, spoke with NewsOne exclusively about Chicago’s outsize crime rate in 2012. He also weighed in on the national spotlight and outpouring of grief upon the news of the mass killings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut […]