Action Plan 2

Once I contacted One Vision One Life they gave me some really great ideas for my action plan. They have Summer Programs that start on July 5th and they suggested that I shadow the prgram leader so that I could see what they do. They go around to 3 different neighborhoods: South Side, the Hill, and the North Side and they plant and clean. I am really excited about this action plan and I have a really great feeling about this.

Action Plan

Im continuing the research and thinking about an action plan. I don't know exactly what I want to do as my action plan but I have alot of ideas. I think that once I get in contact with One Vision One Life, they could give me some ideas for what I should do for my action plan.

Did you know?

31 homicides in the county
17 in the city
90 homicides this year
120 in 2008
Pittsburgh has increased in homicides while other cities have decrease
65 of the cities murders; black
56 black males
81% involved firearms
2008 was the bloodiest year since 1993
Police recovered 551 firearms; 608 were recovered in 2007

Key Terms

As I have been giving you an update on what I have been doing, I have noticed some words that I think you would be interested in knowing the correct terms for. Some of these words you may already know, but a lot of them I was really interested in.

Webites

1. http://www.b-pep.net/updated%20IMPLEMENTATION%20SUMMARY%20REPORT%20JANUARY%202009.pdf
2. http://threeriversfishing.blogspot.com/2007/04/gun-violence-in-pittsburgh.html
3. http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/cityregion/s_526697.html
4. http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07156/791606-53.stm
5. http://newpittsburghcourieronline.com/articlelive/articles/42207/1/Women-walk-for-end-to-street-violence/Page1.html
6. http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/valleyindependent/news/s_609006.html
7. http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/s_505627.html
8. http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08034/854417-53.stm
9. http://newpittsburghcourieronline.com/articlelive/articles/41967/1/New-anti-crime-plan-targets-gang-violence/Page1.html
10. http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/s_348082.html
11. http://kdka.com/local/Hazelwood.homicides.violences.2.1015262.html

Creating my Collage

I started looking up pictures that had something to do with my topic. I found a lot of pictures that had to do with "crips" and "bloods", "guns", "victims", and "peace". The images that I chose all had something to do with Street Violence. Most of them show how the street violence is increasing and some of them show how people are trying to stop the violence. Either way I hope you understand the message that I am trying to get across.

Week 2

It is now week two of my research on Street Violence. So far I have not found much but the little that I have found has become useful. As I been researching I noticed that some of the websites that I looked up were not giving me enough information, so I started to get more descriptive. Once I did that I started to find more information about my topic.