Tag: Gangs

News / World - 8 years ago

Common goal: how soccer helped heal the area at the centre of the LA riots

South Los Angeles is a 51 sq m grille of concrete and asphalt, spread flat below the sparkle of Hollywood and the towers of downtown. Early city leaders wrote racist covenants forcing black people and Latino immigrants into the blocks of south LA –...

News / World - 8 years ago

The apps that map violence – and keep Rio residents out of the crossfire

“A red spot on the map means gunfire, so I avoid going there,” says Leonardo Duarte, who works on the streets for a rehabilitation clinic in Rio de Janeiro. Shootings and violence are routine in his neighbourhood of Vigário Geral, a slum in the grip...