A Doctor Who Treats Violence (Ch. 9)
Martavia Lambert and Anthony Brown both grown up in the slums, were married for two years with children, and and they had a very abusive and unhealthy relationship.
Lambert killed Brown during a fight one night, they were one out of three murders that night.
Crime and violence cause a lot of economic problems. Early interventions are expensive, but they become more difficult to deal with later in life.
Disease specialist for tuberculosis, Dr. Gary Slutkin, initially started in Chicago in hope to reduce the amount of murders in dangerous areas, but then moved to Somalia to work on tuberculosis there. There was sadly a cholera outbreak soon after he arrived though.
For a decade Slutkin worked on infectious …show more content…
Instead of looking at it only like a moral problem or criminal issue, he started looking at it like a disease epidemic.
People exposed to the “disease” (violence) are more likely to “catch the disease” (become violet)
With diseases, he tried to stop them before they spread, so he wanted to apply that to Chicago violence with a nonprofit organization called Cure Violence.
Slutkin hired “violence interrupters,” one of them being China Joe, and went to the block that had the most homicides.
China Joe had girl dress up to get the drug lords attention and once they began dating them, they 'd tell (once of the violence interrupters) everything about the drug lord and he would bombard them when they weren 't expecting it. After he was sick of prison, he told the judge he join Cure Violence and his whole life changed.
Cure Violence is about community coming together and having a community response when there is a murder, such as a memorial service.
This program has reduced shootings by 16-28% in different areas, lowered costs in medical and criminal justices.
They realized that the best way to stop epidemics is by boosting people’s immunity and changing the environment around them so they don 't catch the
Martavia Lambert and Anthony Brown both grown up in the slums, were married for two years with children, and and they had a very abusive and unhealthy relationship.
Lambert killed Brown during a fight one night, they were one out of three murders that night.
Crime and violence cause a lot of economic problems. Early interventions are expensive, but they become more difficult to deal with later in life.
Disease specialist for tuberculosis, Dr. Gary Slutkin, initially started in Chicago in hope to reduce the amount of murders in dangerous areas, but then moved to Somalia to work on tuberculosis there. There was sadly a cholera outbreak soon after he arrived though.
For a decade Slutkin worked on infectious …show more content…
Instead of looking at it only like a moral problem or criminal issue, he started looking at it like a disease epidemic.
People exposed to the “disease” (violence) are more likely to “catch the disease” (become violet)
With diseases, he tried to stop them before they spread, so he wanted to apply that to Chicago violence with a nonprofit organization called Cure Violence.
Slutkin hired “violence interrupters,” one of them being China Joe, and went to the block that had the most homicides.
China Joe had girl dress up to get the drug lords attention and once they began dating them, they 'd tell (once of the violence interrupters) everything about the drug lord and he would bombard them when they weren 't expecting it. After he was sick of prison, he told the judge he join Cure Violence and his whole life changed.
Cure Violence is about community coming together and having a community response when there is a murder, such as a memorial service.
This program has reduced shootings by 16-28% in different areas, lowered costs in medical and criminal justices.
They realized that the best way to stop epidemics is by boosting people’s immunity and changing the environment around them so they don 't catch the