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Compare both forms of violence. Unlike industrial-age violence, digital-age violence
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centers mainly on young people, not adults.
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surfaced in the 1960's with the youth culture and generation page of the 1960's ("never trust anyone over 30") and the rise, in Chicago and other cities, of heavily-armed, drug-dealing, youth victimizing street gangs.
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At the root of Chicago's gang/youth/gun violence today are the 100,0000+ gang members who have overwhelmed law enforcement and now control large portions of the city.
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is increasingly caused by commercial and social media
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commercial media
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social media
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is at the root of alarming breakdowns of communication in all segments and sectors of public life
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media-fueled political polarization at all levels of government causing rising fears of a second civil war
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is therefore no longer a Public Safety problem in the industrial-age, law enforcement sense of the term.
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requires a new concept of public safety that makes Police, Public Health (medical), Public Communications (media) and the Public (citizens and City Hall) responsible for public safety in Chicago
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Address media-generated mistrust as a root cause of digital age violence
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Use media generated to generate citywide trust as the antidote and cure for digital-age, citywide violence
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The only remedy for mistrust is trust
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Unlike industrial-age violence, digital-age violence
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centers on young people, not adults
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is exacerbated by abuses ofg commercial and social media
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commercial media
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social media
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is marked by alarming breakdowns of communication among all segments and sectors of society: law enforcement, generations, racial, religious, economic, political
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Is no longer a Public Safety (police) problem the traditional sense of the term.
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Is now equally a Public Safety (Police), Public Health (Medical), Public Communication (Media) and Public (citizens and City Hall) problem.
2. identify digital-age mistrust as THE ROOT cause OF DIGITAL-AGE VIOLENCE
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Unprecedented levels of mistrust stem from the global communication breakdowns. In Chicago, is mistrust
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Between young people and adults
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Between Chicagoans and City Hall
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Between citizens and Police
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Among Chicagoans of all ages, races, religions and economic backgrounds
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With respect to Chicago's violence, six decades of failed attempts to even reduce violence resulted in a citywide loss of trust in city leadership and citizenship itself.
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This mistrust has numbed the minds of most Chicagoans and their leaders into accepting wartime levels of violence as unalterable, even natural facts of Chicago life, like brutal Chicago winters.
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Digital media are equally part of the problem and the solution
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