“You can put a cop on every corner, and you will not stop the murders,” said Eric E. Malveau, who has worked as a prosecutor and a public defender. “As long as you have a large population that is uneducated and has no job and no hope, what else is there to do but sell drugs? Until you fix that, it’s hard to see the problems getting much better.”
Most of the violence involves black men killing other black men. Out of the 161 homicide victims last year, 131 were black men. Most of the suspects were also black men.
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