Public safety outcomes of the Bronx Osborne Gun Accountability and Prevention program (BOGAP)
Public safety outcomes of the Bronx Osborne Gun Accountability and Prevention program (BOGAP)
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Building the CVI evidence base for the future will require theoretically informed, intentionally causal evaluation studies.
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Jeffrey A. Butts, executive director of the Research and Evaluation Center at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York, noted that even in Washington, federal resources are not actually being targeted where they would make the most difference, in high-crime neighborhoods far from the photogenic monuments and government buildings where National Guard troops are patrolling.
“He’s not really taking on street crime,” said Jeffrey A. Butts, a professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York. “He’s using the crime issue for political posturing and political gain.”