, activists, police and others hoping to reduce gun violence in cities have asked if creating a temporary firebreak—a way to pause tit-for-tat killings—could help in the long term. In troubled neighbourhoods in Chicago, for example, “interrupters” who are often former gangsters themselves have tried dissuading young gunmen from seeking revenge immediately after a shooting. The idea is to let hot heads cool, so preventing a cycle of deadly feuding.
The reductions are widespread, if not entirely unexpected. Mr Herrmann used to analyse crime statistics for New York’s Police Department. He notes periods of heavy snowfall or big storms can also keep people indoors and cause dips in crime. Temporary closures of subway stations can do the same at a local level. Warm weather or school holidays that send more youngsters on to the streets tend to drive rates up. The last pandemic in America, the Spanish flu of 1918, also seemed to have an effect.
Could the pandemic-induced firebreak have a longer-lasting effect? Where shootings are mostly by gangs fighting over control of drug sales, say, a quick return to old levels of violence could be expected. But police in Chicago, at least, liken some shootings to a game of tag played with firearms. Young, ill-educated teenagers, with too-easy access to guns, fall into feuding almost as a deadly sport. Some grudges are then held for years and are even passed between generations.
For a place that is crime prone, restrictions as to the hours in which people can be on the streets each day will really work to limit attacks. This is one of the things coronavirus pandemic has taught all of us. We have the same situation in Nigeria.
CIA won't be locked down forever they'll soon have their cartel friends up and running
Domestic perpetrators stay at home too.. and got their victims with them. Just saying..
Yeah an adventure onto the slippery slope of locking us all up to eliminate crime.
Put everyone in house arrest and you have no crime. Problem solved!
Just Lock us all up? 🤦♀️
um... not in Chicago - we're still getting like 30 people shot every weekend. 179 people shot so far this April. chicagosmayor
TrotDarrow Corrected headline 'American Cities are seeing sharp drops in crime because police are patrolling less often.'
Banane Amerikadan
Maybe you snatch a lady's purse or steal their car, however the downside is that you and your baby's mama catch COVID-19 and you all die. Domestic violence, the same. Aggravated assault, ditto.
No america is doomed
Old judges off the streets?
In NYC? Just wait until the relentless heat of summer.
Who wrote this headline? Less patrols obviously means less crime reported.
Thanks God! To so devastating see one of the greatest economies in the world infested by crime.
Oh so we don’t even need cops? Nice!
COVID-19 deserves Nobel peace price
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