Are You Really the Good Guys?

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There is a history of skepticism from law enforcement of this kind of work. Some of these workers get arrested for stuff, like gun possession and drug dealing. But they for the most part are working for the good of their communities. We should be skeptical about how we're spending our government money," she says.

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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