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Harris-Calvin points to a number of community based violence prevention programs, like violence interrupters, which send community members to immediately meet with shooting victims to try to avoid retaliation, but the pandemic and the need for social distancing put many of these programs on hold.
In New York some have blamed the recent uptick in violence on sweeping criminal justice reforms enacted in 2020. Most notably, bail reform.
The law eliminated cash bail and pretrial detention for nearly all misdemeanor and non-violent felony cases. But given the short length of time its been in practice and the pandemic, which led to many prisoners being released to prevent the spread of covid, Harris-Calvin says it is way too early to draw any correlation between the reforms and the recent uptick in gun violence and homicides.
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