Public Advocate Jumaane Williams' latest report on shootings explores possible solutions to gun violence.
A truck outside an anti-gun rally in Harlem in August 2022.New York City’s public advocate is asking city, state, and federal officials to help people in under-resourced communities more easily access jobs, healthy food, and affordable housing to prevent shootings.exploring those ideas as possible solutions to gun violence. He urged political leaders to try new approaches to public safety, instead of relying solely on law enforcement.
The public advocate’s report focuses on the connections between gun violence and neighborhood conditions. A series of heat maps shows that many communities with high rates of shootings also have high levels of unemployment, mental distress, unaffordable housing, school absenteeism, and COVID-19 infections.Heat map from a public advocate report showing locations of shootings in 2021.
The report points to programs in Oakland and Washington, D.C. that target small numbers of individuals responsible for the majority of gun violence, largely through community-led programs like violence interruption. It also highlights a branch of the mayor’s office in Los Angeles that engages with young people to prevent them from joining gangs, as well as a team in Newark that supports people who are likely to become victims or perpetrators of gun violence.
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