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Call for gender-based task force to study levels of violence affecting Black women and formulate strategic response
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In Chicago, Black women, 16% of the population, disproportionately fall victim to violent crimes and are twice as likely to be fatally shot by an intimate partner. The City, aiming to ensure their safety, provides a venue for expressing concerns and developing quality of life improvements. The city's gender-based violence task force, consulting with the Chicago Urban League and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, is ordered to study this violence's causes, improve law enforcement response, shift cultural norms, and recommend alternate responses.
