Researchers investigated whether drug arrests in neighborhoods are associated with changes in community well-being.
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A City Tries to Measure the Violence It’s Preventing
“I see it becoming a faith-based movement,” Dr. Butts said. “There has to be really transparent professional research in order to stand up in public and say this works.” When it comes to community-based interventions, he added, “we are nowhere close to having that.”
Arrests Expose Rift Between N.Y.P.D. and ‘Violence Interrupters’
Overall, the interrupter model appears to be effective, according to a 2017 study by the John Jay College of Criminal Justice. In one Bronx neighborhood, the number of shooting victims fell 63 percent during a period when interrupters were active compared with rates before the program began, the study found.
Promoting peace: Street Corner Resources fights violence
“The things that make communities safe have nothing to do with patrol cars and badges.”
Missouri AG claims crime will go up if KC tightens gun laws. Experts debunk his logic.
“If a politician tells someone with basic math skills to go through advocacy materials and extrapolate from those numbers to make an argument, you can do that,” [Jeffrey] Butts said. “Of course, you end up saying things that are ridiculous.”
New York City rolls out most detailed plan yet to reduce gun violence
Researcher Jeffrey Butts said the city should partner with a third-party to monitor and analyze the data in a way that is “systematic and unbiased.” “As long as the internal people answer to the same boss, it’s really hard to deliver bad news,” said Butts, director of the Research and Evaluation Center at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice. “The chief executive often hears how great things are going and never hears that there were indicators of things not going that great.”