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Guns and Violence

Jens Ludwig is a founder and director of the Crime Lab at the University of Chicago and the author of a recent book Unforgiving Places: The Unexpected Origins of American Gun Violence. He appeared a couple weeks ago on Glenn Loury’s podcast (in an episode co-hosted by John McWhorter) to discuss the book and his work over the past three decades on crime and policing.

That's comparing people who went through the program with those who did not… Now, whether that would work if you give it to a million kids is an open question, but as proof of concept of what is driving the behavior, I don't see how you can look at that evidence and not be moved off of your original conventional wisdom position. He also argues for similar interventions in high schools, where more time in health education classes should be spent on the most serious threats to the life of American adolescents—homicide, suicide, drug overdoses, and car crashes. Reported annual pedestrian stops under the relatively permissive “reasonable suspicion” standard established in Terry v. Ohio reached a peak of almost 700,000 in 2011 before dropping precipitously following a court ruling and a change in administration.

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