A community-leveraged, public health approach to CVI is likely the best, most cost-effective strategy for building safe and healthy communities. But, evidence for the approach is not yet durable. It is just flimsy enough to be cast aside by conservative lawmakers and unimaginative funders dazzled by the decades of research on more easily proven, individually-oriented approaches to public safety. Continue reading Social Harms of the CVI Binary
Jeffrey Butts, a professor at John Jay College who has studied CMS’s impact, said that research supports continued investment. But he said it is difficult to predict the exact effect an expansion would have on shooting rates, and that it would depend on the implementation. Continue reading Mayoral Candidates Share Their Plans to Combat Gun Violence
“When you answer questions about violence and point to individuals at high risk, that makes politicians happy because they can blame those other people,” Butts said. “There are politicians who live off of getting one group of people to vote against the other group, and this individual-level approach sustains that political energy.” Continue reading The Untold Impact of Nonviolence Work: How Success Gets Measured in Chicago’s Hardest-Hit Neighborhoods
If recent changes in crime were due to changes in the legal handling of youth under 18, marked age-specific patterns would be observable. Such effects are not found in arrest data from New York City. Thus, it does not appear to be accurate to attribute recent increases in violent crime to the State law known as “Raise the Age.” Continue reading Minor Role III: Youth Under Age 18 and New York City Violence
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