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- There are many effective approaches to reducing violence that don’t involve police. Investments in housing, health care, jobs programs, education, after school programs, gun control, environmental design, and violence interruption programs have all been proven to quantifiably reduce violence.
- Policing is not especially effective at reducing violence. Police typically deal with violence only after someone has already been killed, injured, or otherwise harmed.
- Investing so heavily in policing is not evidence-based. The uniquely American dependence on police as first responders to every social problem is the product of decades of reliance on antiquated and disproven theories about safety, the fearmongering of powerful police lobbyists, and policymakers’ racist support for devastatingly harmful militarized policing in communities of color.
- There is no connection between violence and police budgets. America has steadily increased police funding year-over-year regardless of whether crime rates are going up or down.
- Help Victims of Crime. There is far too little support for victims of crime, even though it is the most obvious place to start. Prior victimization — of a person or a place — is the top predictor of future victimization.
- Reduce Demand for Law Enforcement. A central reason why law enforcement does not prevent more crime or solve more crimes is that they are too busy doing things that accomplish neither objective.
- Fixing Distressed Spaces. There is a wide body of evidence that shows that places poison people more routinely than people poison places. Crime does not result from “areas” of the “inner city” being high risk, but rather from a few very small, very bad places.
- Making Crime Attractors Less Appealing. Certain places attract and generate crime — schools, the built environment and bars being at the top of the list.
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Jun 30, 2015 · Damian Platt, researcher, activist and author, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Create well-targeted programmes: If the goal is to reduce homicides, then programme selection should be located in hotspot ...
- What Are CVI Programs and How Are They structured?
- CVIS Are Proven to Reduce Violent Crime and Gun Violence
- States and Cities Around The Nation Are Implementing CVIS
- Conclusion
CVI programs work to reduce homicides and shootings through trusted partnerships between community stakeholders, individuals most affected by gun violence, and government. These programs connect individuals most at risk of committing or experiencing violence—or both—with community members who have walked a similar path whom they trust or respect. T...
In recent years, as gun violence has driven up homicide rates and violent crime more broadly, CVI models have proven to be very effective in combating gun violence in the places they are implemented. Some examples include: 1. Homicides and nonfatal shootings have been reduced by as much as 60 percentin areas where group violence intervention models...
Several states have also taken actions to support CVI implementation in their regions. For example: 1. In 2021 alone, at least 15 states committed $690 millionin funding to CVI efforts. 2. Illinois and Pennsylvania have reserved $250 million and $24 million, respectively, for state resources to support violence intervention models. 3. Chicago has p...
Community-based violence intervention programs are essential for combating the rise in gun violence and violent crime. Their models have not only proven to reduce rates of gun violence, but they are powerful resources in addressing the disproportionate impact of gun violence on communities of color and young people. If the United States is truly to...
Feb 15, 2016 · Another way to reduce crime and violence could be to keep kids in school longer. The research is quite clear that kids who don't drop out and complete school are less likely to commit crime.
How: Arkansas, New York, Oklahoma, and Pennsylvania are among several states that have established grant programs to help law enforcement address violent crime. Ohio recently invested $10 million in crime labs to reduce forensic evidence backlogs and speed up investigations. 2 Utah established a statewide cold case unit in 2018 to help solve ...
Community violence is preventable, and the Division of Violence Prevention (DVP) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is uniquely positioned for this work. DVP was the first government group to apply a public health model to violence prevention. We are widely implementing science-based programs, policies, and practices with ...
