Community Violence as a Population Health Issue: Proceedings of a Workshop by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Health and Medicine: Public Health and Prevention, Health and Medicine: Policy, Reviews and Evaluations
Publisher: The National Academies Press
Published: 2017-06-09T00:00:00+00:00

TABLE 5-1 Attitudinal Question on the Legitimacy of Using Guns to Settle Disputes

SOURCE: Webster presentation, June 16, 2016.

His team’s most recent analysis, through December 2015, found that when aggregated across neighborhoods and duration, there was no net change in homicides associated with the program, but there was a 27 percent reduction in non-fatal shootings. The most impressive results, said Webster, occurred in the geographically isolated Cherry Hill neighborhood, where there was a 44 percent reduction in homicides and a 41 percent drop in non-fatal shootings over a 7-year span starting in November 2008 even though the resources allocated to that neighborhood were reduced. Two other neighborhoods, Lower Park Heights and McElderry Park, also saw a reduction in homicides, 38 percent and 23 percent, respectively, though the program’s inability to reduce gun violence in the Mondawmin neighborhood is of great concern, said Webster. Nonetheless, he believes this program has been the most effective action Baltimore has taken to combat gun violence, even though it has only been introduced in a handful of communities. “If you look at all of the investment in a variety of different law enforcement approaches, including focused deterrence, Safe Streets has done better,” said Webster. In fact, the focused deterrence model has so far not been effective in Baltimore and has been associated with more shootings.

In talking about evidence-based programs, whether Cure Violence or a focused deterrence approach, Webster believes that implementation matters, as does who is involved in carrying out an intervention. “When I think about what might explain some of the varied effects that we are seeing with this program, I mention neighborhood as being important in and of itself,” said Webster. “I also think there is this aspect that is very hard to quantify in a scientific way, but it is getting the right people who can do this most challenging work.”

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