Glasgow was once the “murder capital of Europe.” Today, its public health approach to crime has produced a sharp drop in homicides and is being adopted across the United Kingdom. Could it work here?
that includes the creation of an office of gun violence prevention.
Sprung from a mining village in central Scotland, McCluskey arrived at Strathclyde Police in 2003 as an expert in intelligence analysis. She’d taken an atypical route to policing, training as a nurse and pursuing a degree in forensic psychology in Northern Ireland before working for police in England. Tasked with analyzing Scottish police efforts, she dug into homicide numbers.
The call-ins were “theatre,” said Alistair Fraser, the author of a book on Glasgow gang violence and professor of criminology at the University of Glasgow who is now in the midst of an ambitious study of Scotland’s violence reduction. At the time, Fraser was a student and outreach worker in the east end of Glasgow, a low-income area rife with territorial gang violence. When the call-ins began, Fraser said the list of known gang members could be laughably outdated.
It was becoming abundantly clear to SVRU researchers that the criminal justice system wasn’t what was needed. Many of those involved in gang life had lived through personal trauma from an early age, from witnessing bloodshed to living in homes with abuse and addiction. Emerging research into “adverse childhood experiences” was finding these negative factors can increase the likelihood of violence.
The VRU team began assembling what they called “David’s Story,” focused on a 15-year-old killer who was captured in shocking CCTV footage running down a packed street, stabbing another man to death before celebrating when he saw blood on his knife.
But this time, he got a visit from two people sporting bubble gum pink shirts, who came to his bedside and asked how they could help him. “I’d never been asked that before,” Hutchison said. MAV sends doctors into schools to detail the realities of violent injuries, trains professionals including dentists and hairdressers to recognize signs of domestic abuse and has grown the Navigator program to 12 hospitals across Scotland. Receiving funding from the Scottish government and the U.K.
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