Safe Zones Case Study

Media has been focusing on the bad news that it overlooks what the city of Milwaukee is doing to prevent crimes from happening. I and my family will watch the news on a daily, I remember how Fox 6 News would have a saying late at night, "It's 10 pm, do you know where your kids are?", and my mom will call out each of my sibling names. It's certainly that new broadcast is doing something and show awareness but doesn't show as a whole a lot of what the city plans and why residents should be aware. According to Mayes he said that during the process of the BBC film, the team visited Milwaukee several times last year and spent days covering his programs such as "Program the Parks" to keep kids safe, and Khalil Coleman, who co-founded "Safe Zones" a program to …show more content…
More than 100 Milwaukee community leaders such as neighborhoods, government, youth organization, nonprofits, faith leaders, business and public safety all came together to create a strategic plan to decrease crime (Terrell). The city of Milwaukee is focusing on a public health aspect and target the problems and have solutions for it. Why take a public health approach to violence? Each year, many families, individual, and communities face the physical, mental, and economic costs of violence. Most of the leading costs of violence are injury, disability, and premature deaths and issues compromises health and safety. The public health approach will investigate, understand, and address violence by many ways for one example, "Defining the source of violence through data collection found" (Milwaukee Health Department). Also, another health approach is called "blueprints for peace", will focus on the causes of violence and find strategies from other cities (Barrett). Another form of plan is a legislature that will help prevent gun violence in