In his remarks, Scott honed in on the success of the GVRS, which uses data to identify those high-risk for gun violence. He said it lead to the historic drop in homicides Baltimore saw in 2023 and so far in 2024. "Guess what happened, we ...
across multiple cities and for many types of incidents, demand for policing changed during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic (Ashby,2020:1056); whether police calls for service increased significantly in the week following a homicide ...
D.C., Baltimore, Milwaukee and Columbus, Ohio, saw at least 10 fewer victimizations per 100,000 residents year to date. And general gun homicides are down in the U.S. by 13.1 percent. And gun violence victimizations are down by 12.5 percent compared to 2023. And part of this was ther...
And new studies show that children bear the brunt when unemployment forces a family into poverty: Stress produces an increase in family violence, divorce, suicide, mental illness, alcohol and drug abuse, homicides, accidents and other serious problems. "It creates a threat to the stability of ...
Attention Restoration Theory (Kaplan 1995): Proposes that exposure to nature can reduce mental fatigue created by the many tasks of modern life that require effortful problem solving and reasoning. Mental Fatigue (Kaplan 1995): State of irritability that can result in social behavior that is ...