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Video Games Can Teach How To Shoot Guns More Accurately And Aim For The Head

By Guest PostMay 1, 2012General, Technology9mm, anders behring breivik, brad bushman, bullet, factor, gun, head shots, human target, jodi whitaker, mannequin, modern warfare 2, mw2, nonviolent, norwegian man, pistol, real world, semi automatic pistol, shooting accuracy, video game, violent crimes, violent shooting

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Just 20 minutes of playing a violent shooting video game made players more accurate when firing a realistic gun at a mannequin – and more likely to aim for and hit the head, a new study found.

Players who used a pistol-shaped controller in a shooting video game with human targets had 99 percent more completed head shots to the mannequin than did participants who played other video games, as well as 33 percent more shots that hit other parts of the body. (more…)

At Kartemquin Film Screening, ‘Interrupters’ Speak About Stopping Violence

By Guest PostDecember 14, 2011Culture, Generalalex kotlowitz, ceasefire, Chicago, conflict resolution, documentary, footsteps, gangs, gary slutkin, graduations, kartemquin films, prison, ricardo cobe williams, troubled past, uchicago t shirts, ulysses floyd, violence, violence interrupter, violent crimes, woodlawn

Ricardo “Cobe” Williams isn’t shy about admitting his troubled past.

“For most of my life, I was part of the problem,” Williams told a group of students in the Master of Arts Program in the Humanities (MAPH) last month.

But Williams, who spent a combined 13-and- a-half years in prison, has dedicated his life to preventing others from following in his footsteps. (more…)

Fighting Violent Gang Crime with Math

By Guest PostOctober 28, 2011Culture, Scienceactivity on social networks, alexey stomakhin, algorithm, andrea bertozzi, anthropology, applied mathematics, crime patterns, crime patterns of the hollenbeck gang network, criminal activity between gangs, east los angeles police district, gang crimes, hollenbeck, jeffrey brantingham, lapd, los angeles police department, martin short, mathematical algorithm, missing information, police, set of simulated data, sophisticated methods, street gangs, the best job in the world, ucla mathematicians, victim or perpetrator, violent crimes

UCLA mathematicians working with the Los Angeles Police Department to analyze crime patterns have designed a mathematical algorithm to identify street gangs involved in unsolved violent crimes. Their research is based on patterns of known criminal activity between gangs, and represents the first scholarly study of gang violence of its kind.

The research appears today on the website of the peer-reviewed mathematical journal Inverse Problems and will be published in a future print edition. (more…)

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Video Games Can Teach How To Shoot Guns More Accurately And Aim For The Head

At Kartemquin Film Screening, ‘Interrupters’ Speak About Stopping Violence

Fighting Violent Gang Crime with Math