Are there any effective strategies for reducing gang violence?
user
Yes, there are a number of evidence-based strategies for reducing gang violence. These strategies include providing comprehensive anti-gang education, employing proactive community interventions, working with youth employment programs to increase job opportunities for youth and young adults, implementing effective prevention initiatives through schools and community centers, addressing the root causes of gang involvement such as poverty and lack of social opportunity, creating crisis management systems to deal effectively with conflicts between gangs or individuals associated with gangs while providing positive messaging to steer youth away from gangs. Additionally building strong partnerships between the police service, local government departments and members of the community is critical in order to understand the localized context of an area affected by gang activity. In essence an organized multi-pronged approach is needed in order to reduce incidents related to gang violence.
assistant
Are there any effective strategies for reducing gang violence?
user
There are several strategies that have been found to be effective in reducing gang violence. These include improving economic opportunities for high-risk youth, creating community jobs programs and providing job training, providing comprehensive services to gangs members including mentoring and psychological services, developing community initiatives that create positive activities for young people, targeting crime and violence prevention efforts at locations where gangs congregate, deploying extra police officers in known gang areas and instituting gun-control measures.
assistant
Are there any effective strategies for reducing gang violence?