By Ben Conarck and Adam Williams, Photo: Kaitlin Newman/The Baltimore Banner, The Baltimore Banner, March 30, 2023
A years-long evaluation into the effectiveness of Baltimore’s flagship gun violence intervention program, Safe Streets, found that several of its outposts significantly reduced nearby shootings, resulting in fewer homicides, despite “relatively modest” costs to the city and challenges in staffing the inherently dangerous work.
The report, led by Johns Hopkins professor Daniel Webster, who has spent years studying gun violence in Baltimore, found that the city’s Safe Streets outposts reduced nearby homicides and nonfatal shootings by an average of 16% to 23%, with larger reductions in homicides during the first four years of the longer-running sites.
While Webster’s report found that newer sites reduced nonfatal shootings, those locations didn’t see a significant reduction in homicides.
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