How Fats Interrupts Violence

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So fat goes to his coworkers. First they go talk to the people who did the shooting and the end the smashing. And he's like, Hey, I know you guys have this fight. You shot somebody who smashed up a truck. We don't want any more trouble. And they're like, we're done. So then fats goes to the guy who got shot and his friends. He convinces them to pay for their rivals car repair.

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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