Youth Gun Crimes

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8. Please list and describe the two police responses to juvenile gun crime that are listed in your book. Youth Firearms Violence Initiative and Project Safe Neighborhoods are police two responses to juvenile gun crime. Youth Firearms Violence Initiative focuses on fighting or combating the rise of youth firearms violence. Some examples of these are traditional policing, communication with other law enforcement agencies, patrol officers on a rotating basis, representatives, community organizations, prevention strategies, and proactive arrest policies. Project Safe Neighborhoods focuses on “a nation-wide commitment to reduce gun crime by networking existing local programs that target gun crime and providing those programs with additional tools