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How to stop violent crime before police arrive

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The Violence Interruptor Model - A New Approach to Violence Intervention

Alec McGillis, the ProPublica reporter, explains how this approach works. The program taps trusted people in the community to de-escalate conflicts. Often these are people with criminal records themselves. After the program was deployed in a particularly violent neighborhood, shootings declined by two-thirds.

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