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Chicago is at the forefront nationally of a highly promising method of reducing gun violence that doesn’t rely on arrests, prosecutions and incarcerations.

Community violence intervention is a multipronged anti-violence strategy. It employs “violence interrupters,” also referred to as “peacekeepers,” to defuse arguments that can turn quickly into shootings and killings in neighborhoods where many people are carrying guns. CVI also intervenes in the lives of young men otherwise on the road to lives of crime, helping them step by step into learning how to reorder their lives and become productive members of society.

This is labor-intensive and even dangerous work, but CVI in Chicago has demonstrated positive results to date. As Arne Duncan, for

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