The federal government is giving the city of Seattle nearly $1 million
to explore how communities may be partly to blame for the youth violence that occurs within them.
“It is counterintuitive for a lot of people; we are going to look at crime prevention by looking at the place, and not the people who commit the crime,” said Mariko Lockhart, director of the Seattle Youth Violence Prevention Initiative (SYVPI), one of the agencies involved in the study. ...