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Chicago Man Sentenced To 15 Years In Federal Prison For Illegal Possession Of A Handgun

A Chicago man was sentenced today to 15 years in federal prison for possessing a firearm after having been convicted of a felony offense, federal law enforcement officials announced. Jimmy Brown, 26, who last resided in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood in Chicago, received the mandatory minimum sentence for an armed career criminal in Federal Court. Brown, who faced a maximum of life in prison, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Rebecca Pallmeyer, announced Patrick J. Fitzgerald, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois.
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Illinois Collaborative on Reentry Business Forum Project

In 2010, Chicago Metropolis 2020, under the auspices of the Illinois Collaborative on Reentry and in conjunction with Project Safe Neighborhoods, undertook a project to deliver a comprehensive program of technical assistance forums to locally owned and operated businesses on the legal and fiscal aspects of considering formerly incarcerated men and women for employment.
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Anti Violence Summit at Harper College Law

On Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2010, the United States Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Illinois in partnership with the Illinois North-East Multi Regional Training Center and Harper College Law Enforcement and Justice Administration, Forensic Science Programs, held the 2010 Anti-Violence Summit for local law enforcement in the Wojcik Conference Center.
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Comprehensive Anti-Gang Initiative Award

Deputy Attorney General Mark R. Filip announced the intent to award $2 million to both Chicago and Detroit as part of an expansion of the Department of Justice’s Comprehensive Anti-Gang Initiative. The awards are designed to help law enforcement develop plans to combat gang violence in these cities and surrounding suburbs, and to implement their own anti-gang strategies using three components of prevention, enforcement, and prisoner reentry. The CAGI grant will bolster PSN Chicago’s evidence-based progress in stemming gang violence through development of new and existing partnerships.

“This funding provides not only necessary resources, but the flexibility for law enforcement in the Chicago area, along with our prevention and reentry partners, to tailor their response to the gang problem here,” said U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald. “To eradicate the gang threat in our communities, the problem must be addressed at every stage and that is the approach being taken in Chicago by both law enforcement and community organizations.”

Chicago's Safer Neighborhoods

In a city of almost 3 million citizens, the presence of a few hundred extra young people doesn't change everyday life for most of us. But if the downward trend of homicides in Chicago continues, the hundreds of would-be murder victims who have been spared an early death eventually will become thousands.
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2007 Teen Gun Survey

Our juvenile partner, Uhlich Children's Advantage Network, conducted their annual teen gun survey that you can access through the links in this press release.
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National Project Safe Neighborhoods Conference

The national PSN conference met from June 15 - June 17, 2004 in Kansas City, Missouri.
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Project Safe Neighborhoods Proven Successful

Sixteen defendants were arrested February 2, 2004 in Chicago, Milwaukee, Memphis (TN), and Indiana on charges relating to the illegal sale and purchase of guns.
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Partners in Crime Prevention

The Safer Foundation and Loretto Hospital take part in PSN Parolee Forums and provide services to ex-offenders to make their transition from prison to law-abiding community life more successful.
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Gun Teams Out in Force

The Chicago Police Department (CPD) and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) have jointly created a Gun Team to work as a component of Project Safe Neighborhoods in an effort to decrease the number of violent crimes involving firearms.
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Gun Traffickers Beware

Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) Chicago has extended its reach beyond the felons with guns program. The new initiative enforced by the Chicago Police Department (CPD) and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) has begun to dismantle the problem of gun trafficking in response to the city's title of homicide capital of America.
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