Jeffrey Butts interviewed on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal program by host Bill Scanlan.
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“They should not operate in hostility to law enforcement…but they need to operate almost autonomously,” said Jeffrey Butts, director of the Research and Evaluation Center of the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City. “If the neighborhood starts to think that these programs are in cahoots with law enforcement, the young people in the neighborhood will stop talking to the workers.”
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“The movement needs support with evidence and research, not just clever arguments,” Butts said.