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Want to fight crime? Plant some flowers with your neighbor The Conversation 2 hrs ago Marc A Zimmerman, Professor of Public Health, University of Michigan © Carlos Osorio/AP Images Flint, Mich., has one of the highest crime rates in the country for a city of its size. One neighborhood has found a novel way to fight back. Neighborhoods struggling with physical decline and high crime often become safer simply when local residents work together to fix up their neighborhood. My colleagues and I at the University of Michigan School of Public Health Youth Violence Prevention Center have spent nearly a decade documenting why. Research from cities across the United States shows how small changes to urban environments like planting flowers or adding benches reduce violence.

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