Researchers point to community violence programs, pandemic recovery in historic homicide decline

As candidates debate public safety ahead of the midterm elections, a new assessment of the nation’s historic homicide decline suggests there is no single explanation for the drop — and that some widely discussed enforcement strategies may have played little role. A survey of nearly 50 crime scholars convened by the nonpartisan Council on Criminal […]

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