Today we welcome David Kennedy on the show. He used to be a resercher and professor at Harvard, where he wrote the seminal study Beyond 911: A New Era for Policing. He also directed the Boston Gun Project, which was a large scale iniative focused on dealing with the homicide rate for young people in that city.
His expertise is in community policing. Now, that’s a buzzword that gets thrown around a lot, but what does it really mean? It means a style of policing that strives to reduce violent crime by increasing interaction and cooperation between law enforcement and the communities they serve. It’s an enforcement strategy but also a philosophy about the role law enforcement plays in a community and its relationship to the public.
David Kennedy will join us today to talk about how the community policing model has worked in other American cities. Will Baltimore invest in this model to bring down our homicide rate?
Join us at noon….
-Jessica
