New Plan Lays Out Recommendations for Reducing Gun Violence in DC

Within the face of a national improve in violent crime, the nation’s capital is getting a brand new street map to cut back gun violence inside its borders. Researchers say the District already has the assets to lower the violence, however now its workplace of gun violence prevention has an in depth plan to make use of them in the simplest approach.

Written by the Nationwide Institute for Felony Justice Reform, the Washington, D.C. Gun Violence Discount Plan lays out over a dozen suggestions primarily based on prevention, intervention and group transformation. It may be learn in its entirety right here. 

The plan’s wide-ranging suggestions deal with the basis causes of violence and poverty, laying out methods the town’s present packages can higher coordinate to have the best impression.

“There’s no person who ought to be OK with the shootings which can be happening in our metropolis,” Linda Harrllee Harper, head of D.C.’s workplace of gun violence prevention, mentioned. “We had lots of people working very, very exhausting and now we’re making an attempt to work collectively and be good.”

The plan is just like methods being utilized in different main cities, however in keeping with the report, “the District is exclusive in that it is among the few cities within the nation that has the wanted expertise, potential, and assets to drastically scale back gun violence within the metropolis. Nevertheless, it’s missing the political dedication, coordination, and a coherent technique to cut back gun violence.”

However there could also be a glimmer of hope on the horizon.

“There’s lots of people who’ve been doing wonderful work, however not everyone was speaking to everyone, and so our aim is to be extra coordinated and to be more practical in our communication,” Harper mentioned. 

The subsequent step is getting ideas and suggestions. Members of the general public can weigh in throughout a digital assembly Thursday at 6 p.m.

The report comes on the heels of a violent 24 hours within the District. Two males had been killed and one other 4 had been injured in 5 shootings throughout the nation’s capital in 24 hours. 

In keeping with authorities: 

• A 19-year-old man was shot and killed within the Unit block of Galveston Avenue SW at round 8 p.m. Tuesday. One other man suffered accidents that weren’t life-threatening. 
• A person of unknown age was shot and critically injured within the 2900 block of MLK Jr. Avenue SE at round 9:20 p.m. Tuesday.
• A 38-year-old man was shot and killed within the 2600 block of Stanton Highway SE at round 9:30 p.m.
• A person was shot and suffered accidents that weren’t life-threatening within the 1400 block of Montana Avenue NE at round 12:15 a.m. Wednesday.
• A person was shot and critically injured within the 1200 block of Brentwood Highway NE at round 9:30 a.m. Wednesday.

The victims’ names haven’t been launched, and extra data on potential suspects or motives was not instantly accessible. 

In keeping with the CDC, gun homicides hit a 25-year excessive nationwide. In D.C., taking pictures deaths in 2021 reached the best stage in almost 20 years. The District is outpacing these totals thus far into 2022: 9 folks have been killed in simply the primary 11 days of Might.