New Approach to Gun Crimes Offers Dayton Direction

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"There have been numerous approaches to prevent youth violence. None of them, before Boston, contemplated simply telling hardcore offenders to knock it off."

That quote is from David Kennedy, the academic who is associated with an attack on gun crime that is generally credited with achieving amazing results in Boston in the 1990s, and that is still spreading across the country.

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New Approach to Gun Crimes Offers Dayton Direction

One advocate is Dayton's new police chief, Richard Biehl, who worked in Cincinnati when that city launched a Boston-like program at the end of 2006.

If the "knock it off" ...

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