Full Text of SR0379 100th General Assembly
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| 1 | | SENATE RESOLUTION
| 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
| 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
| 9 | | groups), which includes hate crimes, terrorist acts, and mob | 10 | | violence committed
to advance a particular social agenda; and
| 11 | | WHEREAS, Hate crimes, school shootings, and community | 12 | | shootings have
increased at alarming rates over the past eight | 13 | | years; and | 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 | 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
| 2 | | overseas to become foreign fighters; and | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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
| 7 | | 2017, Chicago shootings and violence were up 24%; and | 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 | 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
| 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
| 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
| 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
| 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
| 16 | | enforcement, courts, social service, business, and community | 17 | | activists; therefore, be it
| 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
| 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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