Quarantining violence must be the priority, before we work on other social problems

31st May 2021Chris Fisher, Seattle Police Department

Levels of violent crime across America saw an unprecedented increase in 2020, and remain worryingly high in 2021; in this latest essay from the Violence Reduction Project, Chris Fisher, Executive Director of Strategic Initiatives at Seattle Police Department, says that any attempt to tackle the problem must focus on stopping the violence first, before wider public health and community approaches can be considered.

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