Safe Streets

“All we can do is hope and pray they don't forget about us after 45 days."

Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott cites a 19% reduction in homicides and 18% reduction in non-fatal shootings over this time last year.

The city's flagship violence interruption program has been effective in curbing crime, says a new report by Hopkins' Center for Gun Violence Solutions. Lead author, Dr. Daniel Webster, joins us.

The head of the Mayor's Office of Neighborhood Safety and Engagement describes how the city's Group Violence Reduction Strategy is reducing rates of murder and gun violence in Baltimore.

Officials are making big changes to its Safe Streets initiative but a hearing to discuss it was halted after a public spat over communication.

We’ll go On the Record with Freedom Jones of the Center for Hope at LifeBridge Health. We talk about the Center’s connection to Safe Streets--a gun violence interruption program in Baltimore--and how to heal the trauma of the frontline work of stopping violence.

A MD lawmaker discusses her new "gun court" bill, and a city official describes plans to expand the Mayor's "Community Violence Intervention Ecosystem."

City leaders also went over the results of an internal evaluation of Safe Streets.

Baltimore, DC and other cities are investing heavily in V-I programs. But do they actually reduce violent crime?

We talk with a Safe Streets violence interruptor and leaders of MONSE about new efforts to curb the city's epidemic of violence.