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Chris Murphy: “This is maybe the secret sauce. This is maybe the biggest explanation as to why numbers are going down. What we find in…”

On the recordJune 27, 2026
This is maybe the secret sauce. This is maybe the biggest explanation as to why numbers are going down. What we find in community after community that are plagued with high rates of gun violence is that it is normally a very small group of people, again largely young men, that are committing these acts of violence, and that if you engage in targeted interventions aimed at these small groups of young men, you can very quickly get gun violence rates down.
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Chris Murphy
Democratic · Connecticut

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Discussing community violence intervention programs

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