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The Kansas City gun experiment

In 1992 Kansas City police sent extra patrols into one small, violent beat to find illegal guns. Learn why aiming effort at the few places where crime clusters can beat spreading it thin, and where that lesson can go wrong.

Major #6: Criminal JusticeThe story: Lawrence Sherman and the Kansas City Police Department (1990s). The book: Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know by Malcolm Gladwell.

About 8 minutes

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In this lesson

  • Beat 144
  • Half the gun crime
  • What the research says about hot spots
  • The book: Talking to Strangers
  • What the evidence says about the book
  • Where this comes from
  • Try it today
  • 4 questions to check yourself

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