David Gaskin uses a megaphone during a shooting response in the Brooklyn borough of New York. S.O.S. is one of a growing number of taxpayer-financed “violence interrupter” groups in the nation’s largest city that enlist former gang members to attack acts of violence like outbreaks of a disease that they must keep from spreading. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig) Indianapolis is no stranger to gun violence. The city is also trying many promising approaches to reducing violence that – if proven successful – could benefit other urban areas across the U.S.
The city’s homicide rate in 2020, at 24.4 per 100,000 residents, was approximately triple the national average , and the city’s highest on record. Approximately 80% of those homicides were perpetrated using firearms.
Gun homicides ended about 240 lives there in a recent two-year period, according to a study regarding this city of 900,000 people . The number of people who were […]
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