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.
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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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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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December 6, 2016 • 17 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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November 29, 2016 • 10 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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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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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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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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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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October 25, 2016 • 15 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 micropho...
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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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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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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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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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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 players ...
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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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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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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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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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August 23, 2016 • 10 mins
Milwaukee zip code 53206 comes with a lot of labels: mass incarceration, poverty, violence.
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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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