Violence Interruption Working at Its Best

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Former gang members and formerly incarcerated people are now using their experience, using their community connections to do a couple things. One is intervening gang conflicts after a shooting or after a fight to try and prevent more shootings like we just heard about. And then some of the workers, they help victims of gun violence. So this is the sort of ideal of violence interruption. Yeah, that is violence interruption working at its best.

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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