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When Prevention Becomes Politics: Inside Baltimore’s Safe Streets Program
Baltimore — In the shadow of a summer block-party massacre that left two dead and nearly two-dozen wounded, a quiet but determined effort has taken root in one of the city’s most embattled neighborhoods. The program, known as Safe Streets Baltimore, seeks to treat gun violence not merely as a crime problem but as a public-health emergency — one that can be interrupted, redirected and healed. Launched in 2007, Safe Streets was modeled on the Chicago-based Cure Violence interve
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