Don't Shoot: One Man, a Street Fellowship, and the End of Violence in Inner-City America By David M. Kennedy

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Gang- and drug-related inner-city violence, with its attendant epidemic of incarceration, is the defining crime problem in our country. In some neighborhoods in America, one out of every two hundred young black men is shot to death every year, and few initiatives of government and law enforcement have made much difference. But when David Kennedy, a self-taught and then-unknown criminologist, engineered the "Boston Miracle" in the mid-1990s, he pointed the way toward what few had imagined: a solution.Don't Shoot tells the story of Kennedy's long journey. Riding with beat cops, hanging with gang members, and stoop-sitting with grandmothers, Kennedy found that all parties misunderstood each other, caught in a spiral of racialized anger and distrust. He envisioned an approach in which everyone-gang members, cops, and community members-comes together in what is essentially a huge intervention. Offenders are told that the violence must stop, that even the cops want them to stay alive and out of prison, and that even their families support swift law enforcement if the violence continues. In city after city, the same miracle has followed: violence plummets, drug markets dry up, and the relationship between the police and the community is reset. This is a landmark book, chronicling a paradigm shift in how we address one of America's most shameful social problems. A riveting, page-turning read, it combines the street vérité of The Wire, the social science of Gang Leader for a Day, and the moral urgency and personal journey of Fist Stick Knife Gun. But unlike anybody else, Kennedy shows that there could be an end in sight.

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I'm so glad I finally took the time to track this book down five years after it caught my attention because it is the most clarifying and transformative thing I've read all year. Based on his two decades of on-the-ground research and experimentation in more than a dozen cities of different sizes and demographics, criminology Kennedy lays out a compelling blueprint for reducing gun violence in urban America.Without getting too deep in the weeds, Kennedy lays out the three groups directly affected by gun violence: the people who live where it's happening, the police tasked with stopping it, and the people doing the shooting. He then breaks down just exactly why they all hate it, and why the common narratives about each group's complicity are largely myths, and then how to bring them together to drive the rates of shooting and murder down.Make no mistake -- this is not a book for gun-control advocates, nor is it a book for those dreaming of an end to all gun violence. Kennedy is instead laying out how to overlay data, analysis, network mapping, and other social science tools with law enforcement processes, and community and family incentives, to target the worst offenders, who are disproportionately responsible for gun violence. The outcome can be communities that are restored to those who live there, and I challenge anyone not to be inspired by the hope this can generate.As straightforward as it is, Kennedy is not shy of detailing all the times the plans haven't' worked, and why. It depends on large amounts of bureaucratic cooperation, putting egos aside, putting established mindsets aside, and most importantly, committing to the governance structures necessary to maintain a complex, ongoing project.Must reading for anyone interested in gun violence in America and what can be done to reduce it, as well as anyone interested in effective and respectful modes of law enforcement.

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