I see this a progress. In fact, it's a small percentage of the population (Black, Young, Male) that causes the majority of the mayhem and havoc is no surprise to anyone paying attention. In D.C. that is essentially just 500 individual. It gives me hope, because once you can identify the problem, it means you can actually openly discuss it and start to work on solving it. That the victims are also overwhelmingly African Americans is not an unknown as well, and they can hopefully not be so plentiful in the future if we can solve the issue.
This is so worth examining and looking with fresh thoughts on how the justice experts and social workers can approach this to reduce the violence and increased murders that are spiraling up in inner city areas.
https://archive.is/TFcYT
https://cjcc.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/cjcc/release_content/attachments/DC Gun Violence Problem Analysis Summary Report.pdf
This is so worth examining and looking with fresh thoughts on how the justice experts and social workers can approach this to reduce the violence and increased murders that are spiraling up in inner city areas.
Quote from article: "The National Institute for Criminal Justice Reform looked at the numbers for homicides and nonfatal shooting in D.C. in 2019 and 2020, and found that "most gun violence is tightly concentrated on a small number of very high-risk young Black male adults that share a common set of risk factors."
https://archive.is/TFcYT
https://cjcc.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/cjcc/release_content/attachments/DC Gun Violence Problem Analysis Summary Report.pdf