Is There a Need for More Police?

There are too many guns and a culture of gun violence in our society. We have to quit thinking that no matter how well trained, well deployed, well armed the police are, that they're going to be able to prevent these things. Almost seven per ent of all homicides in the united states are committed by police officers. So we need to really ask some tough questions about why we've put all our eggs in the basket of an institution that doesn't appear to be doing what we think it does. The cure violence model is rooted in a public health analysis of violence. They hire people from communities where violence is a problem, and they hire people who themselves have a history of involvement in street