06 Guiding Policy Discussions and Nobody's Coming For Your Guns

Dec 30, 2019

In this episode, Sarah talks about how to guide difficult conversations through the minefields of policy proposals. And Jon talks about how assertions like, "Nobody's coming for your guns" are bad for everyone.

 

Focused deterrence - reduces violent crime by 30%

https://www.rand.org/pubs/tools/TL261/better-policing-toolkit/all-strategies/focused-deterrence/in-depth.html#analyzing-the-evidence-for-foc-

 

Suicide prevention strategies

https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/pdf/suicideTechnicalPackage.pdf

 

Enhancing School Safety Using a Threat Assessment Model

https://www.secretservice.gov/data/protection/ntac/USSS_NTAC_Enhancing_School_Safety_Guide_7.11.18.pdf

 

Mass Attacks in Public Places -- threat assessment and best practices

https://www.secretservice.gov/data/press/reports/USSS_FY2019_MAPS.pdf