2aguy
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Here we have a strategy for dealing with gun murder in our inner cities..... amazingly, it doesn't focus on law abiding gun owners.....it actually focuses on violent criminals...and just as amazingly, it shows that focusing on actual criminals cuts down on gun murder.....
Why won't the democrats listen?
Boston’s miracle: how America stopped young men killing each other
It’s known as group violence intervention (GVI), an attempt to forestall violence in US cities developed in Boston in the 90s by David Kennedy, a criminology professor. When the city’s youth homicide rate fell 63%, it became known as the “Boston miracle”.
Today, Kennedy’s team at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York supports more than 30 American cities. New Haven first tested GVI in 2012. The year before, there were 349 shots fired in the town of 130,000, and 27people died. In 2017 it was 110 shots, killing six people.
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The GVI strategy is based around “call-ins” like the one Spell was addressing: a gathering of law enforcement officials, locals, former gang members, and young men attending as part of their probation or parole.
Spell gives the men a stark choice. Stop the violence and a whole range of assistance will come their way: nappies for the kids, the right paperwork for a job, even help with relocation to get out of the damaging environment in which they live. Carry on, and prison awaits – or worse.
Relatives and representatives of local services also attend. At the New Haven meeting, one social services coordinator, Letitia Charles, pointed at the audience as she asked the young men: “Have you ever heard it takes a village (to raise a child)? Look around you. You have a village.”
Why won't the democrats listen?
Boston’s miracle: how America stopped young men killing each other
It’s known as group violence intervention (GVI), an attempt to forestall violence in US cities developed in Boston in the 90s by David Kennedy, a criminology professor. When the city’s youth homicide rate fell 63%, it became known as the “Boston miracle”.
Today, Kennedy’s team at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York supports more than 30 American cities. New Haven first tested GVI in 2012. The year before, there were 349 shots fired in the town of 130,000, and 27people died. In 2017 it was 110 shots, killing six people.
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The GVI strategy is based around “call-ins” like the one Spell was addressing: a gathering of law enforcement officials, locals, former gang members, and young men attending as part of their probation or parole.
Spell gives the men a stark choice. Stop the violence and a whole range of assistance will come their way: nappies for the kids, the right paperwork for a job, even help with relocation to get out of the damaging environment in which they live. Carry on, and prison awaits – or worse.
Relatives and representatives of local services also attend. At the New Haven meeting, one social services coordinator, Letitia Charles, pointed at the audience as she asked the young men: “Have you ever heard it takes a village (to raise a child)? Look around you. You have a village.”
