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Don't Shoot tells the story of Kennedy's long journey. Riding
with beat cops, hanging with gang members, and stoop-sitting with
grandmothers, Kennedy found that all parties misunderstood each other,
caught in a spiral of racialized anger and distrust. He envisioned an
approach in which everyone-gang members, cops, and community
members-comes together in what is essentially a huge intervention.
Offenders are told that the violence must stop, that even the cops
want them to stay alive and out of prison, and that even their
families support swift law enforcement if the violence continues. In
city after city, the same miracle has followed: violence plummets,
drug markets dry up, and the relationship between the police and the
community is reset.
This is a landmark book, chronicling a paradigm shift in how we
address one of America's most shameful social problems. A riveting,
page-turning read, it combines the street vrit of The Wire, the
social science of Gang Leader for a Day, and the moral urgency
and personal journey of Fist Stick Knife Gun. But unlike
anybody else, Kennedy shows that there could be an end in sight.
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Gang- and drug-related inner-city violence, with its attendant epidemic
of incarceration, is the defining crime problem in our country. In some
neighborhoods in America, one out of every two hundred young black men
is shot to death every year, and few initiatives of government and law
enforcement have made much difference. But when David Kennedy, a
self-taught and then-unknown criminologist, engineered the "Boston
Miracle" in the mid-1990s, he pointed the way toward what few had
imagined: a solution.< Awards and Honors: Two Innovation in
Government Awards, Herman Goldstein International Award for Problem
Oriented Policing, Two International Assoc. of Chiefs of Police Webber
Seavey Awards, and Person of the Year Award from Law Enforcement News
Director's Commendation, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms Letter
of Appreciation, Secretary of the Treasury Lawrence Summers Statement of
Thanks, Vice President Al Gore Today, the High Point antiviolence
strategy is no longer an untested theory... It has proven itself time
and time again with nearly unbelievable reductions in violence, and
every time it has worked it has drawn more followers. It has, in fact,
become a movement. Tate Chambers, Dept of Justice, Executive Office for
United States Attorneys This profession is in his debt. The number of
lives that he has saved are in his debt, whether they know him or not.
Bernard Melekian, Director, Dept of Justice Office of Community Oriented
Policing >
Don't Shoot tells the story of Kennedy's long journey. Riding
with beat cops, hanging with gang members, and stoop-sitting with
grandmothers, Kennedy found that all parties misunderstood each other,
caught in a spiral of racialized anger and distrust. He envisioned an
approach in which everyone-gang members, cops, and community
members-comes together in what is essentially a huge intervention.
Offenders are told that the violence must stop, that even the cops
want them to stay alive and out of prison, and that even their
families support swift law enforcement if the violence continues. In
city after city, the same miracle has followed: violence plummets,
drug markets dry up, and the relationship between the police and the
community is reset.
This is a landmark book, chronicling a paradigm shift in how we
address one of America's most shameful social problems. A riveting,
page-turning read, it combines the street vrit of The Wire, the
social science of Gang Leader for a Day, and the moral urgency
and personal journey of Fist Stick Knife Gun. But unlike
anybody else, Kennedy shows that there could be an end in sight.
P>
Gang- and drug-related inner-city violence, with its attendant epidemic
of incarceration, is the defining crime problem in our country. In some
neighborhoods in America, one out of every two hundred young black men
is shot to death every year, and few initiatives of government and law
enforcement have made much difference. But when David Kennedy, a
self-taught and then-unknown criminologist, engineered the "Boston
Miracle" in the mid-1990s, he pointed the way toward what few had
imagined: a solution.<
