Precious Lives

Precious Lives, created by 371 Productions, is a weekly podcast about gun violence and young people in the Milwaukee area. Who are the victims and the shooters? How are the weapons obtained? Explore the impact on the community at large and how to stop the violence.

Episodes

#101 Precious Lives: A Search for Answers

December 20, 2016 • 23 mins

This is the final episode of Precious Lives. And for this final story, we thought we’d return to the first family we met - the family of Laylah Petersen.

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#100 Precious Lives: Breaking the Cycle of Violence

December 13, 2016 • 13 mins

On June 11, 1994, Garland Hampton woke up around 10:30 am. He poured himself a bowl cereal, took a shower and went to a friend’s birthday party. That evening, Garland got into a fight with a fellow gang member. He pointed a 9-millimeter pistol at Donell Storks and shot him in the left side of the head.

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#099 Precious Lives: A Pediatric Surgeon’s Plea To End Gun Deaths in Milwaukee

December 6, 2016 • 11 mins

Well over a decade ago, pediatric surgeon Dr. John Densmore and his wife bought their first home. He had just started his residency at Children’s Hospital in Milwaukee.

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#098 Precious Lives: The Next Chapter

November 29, 2016 • 9 mins

At the end of 2016, Precious Lives will shift gears. We’ll wrap up our radio series and focus on a traveling live show. The Precious Lives team will attempt to reach all corners of Milwaukee to harness diverse energies to combat the problem of gun violence.

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#097 Precious Lives: An Urban Ministry

November 22, 2016 • 10 mins

Violence clusters like an infectious disease. But you can also feel it when you walk into certain community spaces, like All People’s Church in Milwaukee.

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#096 Precious Lives: Finding Justice - and Purpose - Amid Police Violence

November 15, 2016 • 9 mins

After Sylville Smith was shot and killed by a police officer this summer, his family was left to grieve and figure out how to move forward.

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#095 Precious Lives: Checking In With Carlton Dewindt, More Than A Year After Losing His Friend

November 8, 2016 • 9 mins

We met 22-year-old Carlton Dewindt over a year ago, when he was featured on an early episode of Precious Lives.

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#094 Precious Lives: How Did We Get Here?

November 1, 2016 • 8 mins

There’s a lot we know about gun violence. We know it’s concentrated in poorer areas. And we know those areas tend to be heavily black. But how did things get that way -- how did we get to the point where 84% of Milwaukee’s homicide victims are black?

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#093 Precious Lives: Behind the Gun Violence Beat

October 25, 2016 • 14 mins

This is Precious Lives episode 93. We’re almost at our goal of telling 100 stories about gun violence and young people in Milwaukee. We’ve covered the family members who have lost loved ones, the activists fighting to make the city better, and the political leaders overseeing it all. Each week, we ask our interview subjects to be emotionally honest with us as we try to understand the problem of gun violence. This week, the...

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#092 Precious Lives: Running Towards a Second Chance

October 18, 2016 • 9 mins

Born a few months apart, Mario Drain and his friends wound up with very different fates after committing armed robbery together in high school.

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#091 Precious Lives: Building Community After a Police-Involved Shooting

October 11, 2016 • 8 mins

In August 2016, 23-year old Sylville Smith was shot by District 7 Officer Dominique Heaggan.

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#090 Precious Lives: The Playoffs

October 4, 2016 • 10 mins

This is the final episode of a three part series following a young basketball team. At 13 and 14 years old - these players are dealing with a lot more than basketball drills. They lost a teammate last year: 13 year old Giovonnie Cameron, who was shot and killed within the first week of the season. In this episode, we’ll pick up where we left off: just weeks before the championship game, the team is undefeated.

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#089 Precious Lives: The 'Fighting' Team Copes With a Teammate's Death

September 27, 2016 • 10 mins

Precious Lives picks up where it left off last week with Coach Eric Moore. He coaches in a summer basketball league called Warning Project Respect. And he’s earned himself a reputation throughout the league as the “crying coach.”

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#088 Precious Lives: The Crying Coach

September 20, 2016 • 12 mins

If you are between the ages of eight and 48, love basketball and live in Milwaukee’s central city…you’ve probably been a part of Warning’s basketball league. Over 40 years old, the Warning basketball league is the third oldest in the nation. It’s a rite of passage, and for many youth, it’s the place to be over the summer, wearing the colored t-shirt representing your team. But last year was a rough year for the league. Two...

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#087 Precious Lives: Remembering Eric Von

September 13, 2016 • 19 mins

On Thursday, September 8th, Precious Lives host Eric Von died of a heart attack. He was 58.

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#086 Precious Lives: Programming Sherman Park

September 6, 2016 • 10 mins

On August 13th, all eyes turned to Milwaukee’s Sherman Park neighborhood. Protesters jumped on police cars and set buildings on fire, outraged over the police shooting of Sylville Smith.

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#085 Precious Lives: Tragedy Inspires a Fight for Universal Background Checks

August 30, 2016 • 9 mins

Last year in Milwaukee, close to 70 percent of gun homicide suspects possessed their guns illegally.

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Strong Public Support Fails to Move Wisconsin on Gun Background Checks

August 28, 2016 • 8 mins

On a Sunday afternoon nearly four years ago, Elvin Daniel was in his garden when he got a call from police: His sister, ZinaHaughton, had been shot at work.

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#084 Precious Lives: The Cost of Saying Goodbye

August 23, 2016 • 10 mins

Milwaukee zip code 53206 comes with a lot of labels: mass incarceration, poverty, violence.

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#083 Precious Lives: Making Sense of the Weekend Unrest

August 16, 2016 • 18 mins

On Saturday, August 14th, a Milwaukee police officer shot and killed 23-year old Sylville Smith near the intersection of West Auer Avenue and North 44th Street.

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Episodes

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#099 Precious Lives: A Pediatric Surgeon’s Plea To End Gun Deaths in Milwaukee

#098 Precious Lives: The Next Chapter

#097 Precious Lives: An Urban Ministry

#096 Precious Lives: Finding Justice - and Purpose - Amid Police Violence

#095 Precious Lives: Checking In With Carlton Dewindt, More Than A Year After Losing His Friend

#094 Precious Lives: How Did We Get Here?

#093 Precious Lives: Behind the Gun Violence Beat

#092 Precious Lives: Running Towards a Second Chance

#091 Precious Lives: Building Community After a Police-Involved Shooting

#090 Precious Lives: The Playoffs

#089 Precious Lives: The 'Fighting' Team Copes With a Teammate's Death

#088 Precious Lives: The Crying Coach

#087 Precious Lives: Remembering Eric Von

#086 Precious Lives: Programming Sherman Park

#085 Precious Lives: Tragedy Inspires a Fight for Universal Background Checks

Strong Public Support Fails to Move Wisconsin on Gun Background Checks

#084 Precious Lives: The Cost of Saying Goodbye

#083 Precious Lives: Making Sense of the Weekend Unrest

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#101 Precious Lives: A Search for Answers

#100 Precious Lives: Breaking the Cycle of Violence