CeaseFire: A public health approach to public safety

CeaseFire is a unique, interdisciplinary, public health approach to violence prevention. We maintain that violence is a learned behavior that can be prevented using disease control methods. Using proven public health techniques, the model prevents violence through a three-prong…

Growing up, Saturday mornings, meant Soul Train, Fat Albert, and Bruce Lee (in that order). During those hours, my parents never seemed to fight. Saturdays were reserved for cleaning, watching my parents do the hustle, the bump, and…

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Into every life some rain must fall. But, FTR, we are not standing in a rain puddle. Its piss and it stinks to the High Heaven. Time for the Tables of the Money Changers to be Overturned, again! #occupywallstreet #occupyLA #occupytogether and http://www.getmoneyout.com

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We had the honor, priveledge and pleasure to have our Community's Neighborhood Council meeting professionally filmed by Lori Webster. As a journalism student at USC, she shared with me that she was gathering footage of Community Events for a competition she is enrolled in. I am very grateful to have made her freindship here at the LeimertParkBeat.com. And look forward to following her success with her current project and of her future endeavors in…

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Attending the regularly scheduled Neighborhood Council meeting I discovered we have a lot of work to do. Be that as it may, an opportunity does exist for the legacy of our community to step-up our game and lean forward n2 the 21st Century.

**The vacancies that were open on the Board for Area Rep and At Large Representative were filled by unanimous consent. The vacancies for Treasurer and Planning & Land Use were not…

What do concerned citizens of the inner-city do when they feel that the mainstream press has let the community down as a watchdog over a major redevelopment projects?

They watch out for themselves.

Move over citizen journalism — make room for collaborative journalism, a new effort online. Its purveyors hope it will grow into a sort of synthesis of bloggers and journalists with press passes. The members of the joint effort want to take a hard look at one of the many…

The Sixth Avenue Neighborhood Watch in Leimert Park is the latest in a trend of community groups that are taking steps to keep the community

safe — and also serving as emblems of the improved relations between

the residents of Leimert Park and the Los Angeles Police Department

(LAPD).