back in 2012, 2013 when the u.s. was at a historic low for gun violence and homicides, it was still more dangerous as a country than any other country in the developed democracies. so, we ve always had higher homicide rates and more guns. those are just two starks facts about america. in the last year we ve seen homicides go up, shootings go up and gun purchases go up. what s going on? i want to bring in amber goodwin and barry freedman, founding director of the policing project at new york university law school, author of unwarranted policing without permission. barry, let me start with you from the stat studying perspective about this about what the literature and data suggests about this basic
about solutions as something that you study basically full-time? yeah, i ll tell you what i think doesn t work and what works. and i want to begin by saying we have to hear from impacted communities about their concept of public safety. what doesn t work, what we always do in moments like this is we get tough through policing and decide to conduct lots of stops, pedestrian stops, stop and frisk, automobile stops. and all this does is angers the communities that the police need cooperation from to deal with the violence in those communities. what does work is there are a lot of community-based interventions, things like cure violence, credible messengers who can step in and deal with the violence. we ve also seen job programs for young men in the inner city and after school programs. all of these things are demonstrated to bring down violence, and that s the direction you need to be looking. amber goodwin and barry
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