Don't Shoot

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1. joshuahedlundDec 2014
   For anyone interested in urban gang dynamics I highly recommend David Kennedy's book Don't Shoot. I recently read it and it contains some amazing insights into misunderstandings that communities of law enforcement and urban neighborhoods have about each other and gangs which leads to rational but wrong behaviors that perpetuate those misunderstandings, along with some brilliant ideas to change those dynamics with examples of those applied ideas working in multiple neighborhoods across the country.

   http://www.amazon.com/Dont-Shoot-Fellowship-Violence-Inner-C...

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2. projektfuJun 2022
   David Kennedy, author of "Don't Shoot", was on the radio talking about his approach. He said by closing the open drug markets in the street the drugs have to be traded in people's houses and the other elements aren't attracted to the area. He then said something like "You know what we used to call the places where drugs are sold quietly inside people's houses? The suburbs."

   It's a really good book. Totally opened my mind that these problems are tractable so long as the typical dynamic of cops and clockers is put away in exchange for a focus on the community.

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