Peter1469
12-15-2015, 08:38 PM
A proven method to curtail gun violence (http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/dec/14/turned-our-back-on-a-proven-method-to-curtail-gun-violence-project-ceasefire). More gun laws, more mandatory minimum sentences, and the general increase in criminal prosecution have not worked. Prison populations have exploded.
In response, jurisdictions all over the country passed get-tough gun laws, gang ordinances, three-strikes laws and school zone violations – laws that caused our prison population to explode. In 2002, when the shooting epidemic began to subside, the National Institute of Justice published a study (https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/190351.pdfhttps://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/190351.pdfhttps://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/190351.pdf) showing that all of those get-tough laws had virtually no preventative impact on gun violence.
On the other hand, experts found, there was a way to shut gun deaths off like a switch. In Boston, where the strategy (http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2006/01/straight-outta-boston?page=1) was first tested, homicides went from 113 in 1991 to 31 in 1999. They called it Operation Ceasefire.
Walk through this door, the men doing the shooting were told, and we will help you get jobs and build a life. But go back out there and keep at it, and you will not like what comes next. After the first meeting in 1996, not a single teen in Beantown was shot to death for 29 straight months. In Chicago gun violence wasreduced (https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/227181.pdf) by as much as 73%. According to a report (https://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-gun-control-debate-ignores-black-lives)co-published by Pro Publica and The New Republic last month, the same thing happened in cities all across the United States.
In response, jurisdictions all over the country passed get-tough gun laws, gang ordinances, three-strikes laws and school zone violations – laws that caused our prison population to explode. In 2002, when the shooting epidemic began to subside, the National Institute of Justice published a study (https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/190351.pdfhttps://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/190351.pdfhttps://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/190351.pdf) showing that all of those get-tough laws had virtually no preventative impact on gun violence.
On the other hand, experts found, there was a way to shut gun deaths off like a switch. In Boston, where the strategy (http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2006/01/straight-outta-boston?page=1) was first tested, homicides went from 113 in 1991 to 31 in 1999. They called it Operation Ceasefire.
Walk through this door, the men doing the shooting were told, and we will help you get jobs and build a life. But go back out there and keep at it, and you will not like what comes next. After the first meeting in 1996, not a single teen in Beantown was shot to death for 29 straight months. In Chicago gun violence wasreduced (https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/227181.pdf) by as much as 73%. According to a report (https://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-gun-control-debate-ignores-black-lives)co-published by Pro Publica and The New Republic last month, the same thing happened in cities all across the United States.