Is Fats Enough to Prevent Shootings?

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There's real money behind this now, but you just named a bunch of cities that have some of the highest murder rates in the country. So I think it's fair to have some skepticism about this. The research here is mixed. But these are anecdotes. We shouldn't be spending government money based on anecdotes.

Policymakers across the country are spending hundreds of millions of dollars on “violence interruptor” programs to try to stop shootings before they happen. WBEZ’s Patrick Smith spent a year with some Chicago-based interruptors for the podcast “Motive.”

This episode was produced by Miles Bryan, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.

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