Bill Text: IL SR0379 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Urges faith-based organizations and community based organizations to collaborate and build a multidisciplinary alliance that promotes community resilience and public safety through the development of programs and strategies aimed to prevent violence and violent extremism in impoverished, underserved, and at-risk communities by providing media outreach and educational campaigns, after-school programs, mentoring programs, and other activities that replace negative messages, activities, beliefs, and attitudes with positive productive activities, beliefs, and messages, through a transparent and collaborative process with the community that takes full advantage of any available State and federal funding resources.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2017-06-28 - Resolution Adopted [SR0379 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2017-SR0379-Introduced.html
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1 | SENATE RESOLUTION
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2 | WHEREAS, In 1996, the World Health Organization held the | ||||||
3 | Forty-Ninth World Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland and | ||||||
4 | declared
violence a leading public health problem; and
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5 | WHEREAS, The World Health Organization developed a | ||||||
6 | typology of violence
that identified three categories: | ||||||
7 | self-directed violence (by oneself),
interpersonal violence | ||||||
8 | (by another person), and collective violence (by larger
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9 | groups), which includes hate crimes, terrorist acts, and mob | ||||||
10 | violence committed
to advance a particular social agenda; and
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11 | WHEREAS, Hate crimes, school shootings, and community | ||||||
12 | shootings have
increased at alarming rates over the past eight | ||||||
13 | years; and
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14 | WHEREAS, Hate groups have emerged as one of the greatest | ||||||
15 | threats to
public safety; from 2008 to 2012, the number of | ||||||
16 | "patriot groups",
including militias, multiplied by more than | ||||||
17 | 800%; and
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18 | WHEREAS, Violent extremist threats come from a range of | ||||||
19 | groups and
individuals, including domestic terrorists, | ||||||
20 | homegrown violent extremists, as well as international | ||||||
21 | terrorists, lone offenders or small groups
who may be |
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1 | radicalized to commit violence at home or attempt to travel
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2 | overseas to become foreign fighters; and
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3 | WHEREAS, Between 1982 and 2011, mass shootings such as | ||||||
4 | Sandy
Hook, Columbine, and the Pulse Night Club occurred every | ||||||
5 | 200 days on average,
but between 2011 and 2014, they occurred | ||||||
6 | every 64 days; and
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7 | WHEREAS, Hate crimes targeting Muslims tripled in 2015, | ||||||
8 | with attacks against
Muslim Americans experiencing the biggest | ||||||
9 | surge; there were 257 reports of assaults,
attacks on mosques, | ||||||
10 | and other hate crimes against Muslims, a jump of about 67% in | ||||||
11 | 2015; it was the highest total since 2001, when more than 480 | ||||||
12 | attacks
occurred in the aftermath of the attacks of September | ||||||
13 | 11, 2001; and
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14 | WHEREAS, Attacks against transgender people have also | ||||||
15 | sharply increased; according to FBI data, African Americans | ||||||
16 | were the most frequent victims of hate crimes based on race, | ||||||
17 | while Jews were the
most frequent victims based on religion; | ||||||
18 | and
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19 | WHEREAS, Fifty-Nine percent of the hate crimes that the | ||||||
20 | F.B.I. recorded were based
on the race, ethnicity, or ancestry | ||||||
21 | of the victim; religious bias accounted for about 20% of all | ||||||
22 | attacks; about 18% of attacks were based on sexual
orientation; |
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1 | and
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2 | WHEREAS, Chicago's homicide and violent crime rates have | ||||||
3 | been rising, and
appear resistant to violence prevention | ||||||
4 | efforts; in 2016, 762
people were killed in Chicago - 300 more | ||||||
5 | than 2015, representing the largest one-year
increase in any of | ||||||
6 | America's biggest cities in the past 25 years; in January of
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7 | 2017, Chicago shootings and violence were up 24%; and
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8 | WHEREAS, The United States Department of Homeland Security | ||||||
9 | has described violent
extremism involving school shootings, | ||||||
10 | mass shootings, terrorist acts, hate
crimes, and gang violence, | ||||||
11 | as a serious threat to public safety
and has called upon each | ||||||
12 | state to develop a comprehensive prevention
strategy for | ||||||
13 | countering violent extremism using a public health approach; | ||||||
14 | and
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15 | WHEREAS, There are three levels of public health violence | ||||||
16 | prevention:
primary prevention, which aims to prevent violence | ||||||
17 | before it occurs; secondary
prevention, which focuses on | ||||||
18 | immediate responses to violence such as pre-hospital
care; and | ||||||
19 | emergency services or treatment, and tertiary prevention, that | ||||||
20 | focuses on
rehabilitation, reintegration, reducing long-term | ||||||
21 | physical emotional or physical
disability relevant to victims | ||||||
22 | or perpetrators of violence; and
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1 | WHEREAS, A comprehensive response to violence protects and
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2 | supports victims of violence, reduces the perpetration of | ||||||
3 | violence, and changes
the circumstances and conditions that | ||||||
4 | give rise to violence in the first place; and
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5 | WHEREAS, Faith and community-based organizations provide | ||||||
6 | critical
leadership, knowledge, and passion when it comes to | ||||||
7 | preventing and intervening
in cycles of youth violence around | ||||||
8 | the country; and
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9 | WHEREAS, All throughout the country, faith and non-profit | ||||||
10 | organizations
have taken on many tasks in order to keep young | ||||||
11 | people safe and increase
their positive opportunities; and
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12 | WHEREAS, Staff and volunteers from churches, mosques, | ||||||
13 | temples,
synagogues, and community-based organizations are | ||||||
14 | actively involved in the lives
of both victims and perpetrators | ||||||
15 | of violence; collaborating with medical staff, law
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16 | enforcement, courts, social service, business, and community | ||||||
17 | activists; therefore, be it
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18 | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE ONE HUNDREDTH GENERAL | ||||||
19 | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we urge faith-based | ||||||
20 | organizations and
community-based organizations to collaborate | ||||||
21 | and build a multidisciplinary
alliance that promotes community | ||||||
22 | resilience and public safety through the
development of |
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1 | programs and strategies aimed to prevent violence and violent
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2 | extremism in impoverished, underserved, and at-risk | ||||||
3 | communities by providing
media outreach and educational | ||||||
4 | campaigns, after-school programs, mentoring
programs, and | ||||||
5 | other activities that replace negative messages, activities, | ||||||
6 | beliefs, and attitudes with positive productive activities, | ||||||
7 | beliefs, and messages, through a transparent and collaborative | ||||||
8 | process with the community that takes full advantage of any | ||||||
9 | available State and federal funding resources.
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