{"id":129327,"date":"2024-04-26T02:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-26T02:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=129327"},"modified":"2024-04-26T02:30:03","modified_gmt":"2024-04-26T02:30:03","slug":"baton-rouge-works-to-measure-its-efforts-to-combat-gun-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=129327","title":{"rendered":"Baton Rouge Works to Measure Its Efforts to Combat Gun Violence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2024\/04\/22\/headway\/gun-violence-intervention-baton-rouge.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NY Times<\/a>: &#8220;When Liz and Louis Robinson\u2019s eldest son, Louis Jr., began to court trouble on the streets of Baton Rouge, La., Ms. Robinson worried that one of the bullets flying through their neighborhood \u2014 and occasionally through their windows and walls \u2014 would eventually find him. So she gave him an ultimatum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">\u201cI told him, \u2018A military man is going to come,\u2019\u201d she remembered. \u201c\u2018Either you go with him or you get out of my house.\u2019\u201d This was 2008, and Americans were stationed in war zones in Iraq and Afghanistan. But she figured those places were safer than Baton Rouge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Louis Jr. took Option A, joining the Army the year after he graduated from high school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">After six years in the service, including one year in Iraq, Louis came home. He took a Coca-Cola warehouse job, became a father to three children and was performing as a rapper under the name Louis BadAzz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Just shy of his 30th birthday, Louis Jr. was leaving a friend\u2019s house when he was shot dead. He was one of 78 people killed in Baton Rouge in 2018&#8230;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">As these programs proliferated, however, policymakers had one overriding question: Do they work?&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">But money wasn\u2019t flowing to studies of community-based programs like violence interruption. Those studies require taxing, time-consuming design, said Jeffrey A. Butts, a violence researcher and the director of the Research and Evaluation Center at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice. He lays some fault on researchers who prefer the easier work of analyzing police data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Much of the research that has been done on community prevention programs is not sufficiently rigorous, Dr. Butts argues. He has studied community interventions for decades and supports systemic responses to violence, but criticizes organizations that champion their success without sufficient data. \u201cI see it becoming a faith-based movement,\u201d Dr. Butts said. \u201cThere has to be really transparent professional research in order to stand up in public and say this works.\u201d When it comes to community-based interventions, he added, \u201cwe are nowhere close to having that.\u201d&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NY Times: &#8220;When Liz and Louis Robinson\u2019s eldest son, Louis Jr., began to court trouble on the streets of Baton Rouge, La., Ms. Robinson worried that one of the bullets flying through their neighborhood \u2014 and occasionally through their windows and walls \u2014 would eventually find him. So she gave him an ultimatum. \u201cI told&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=129327"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129328,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129327\/revisions\/129328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=129327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=129327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}