“Three people lost their lives,” Joseph Richardson, Jr., a University of Maryland ethnographer specializing in gun violence, said. “That’s not normal. To have three Safe Streets workers killed, we need to assess what’s going on.”

The Department of African American Studies congratulates Dr. Joseph Richardson, MPower & Joel & Kim Feller Professor for African American Studies and Anthropology, for being highlighted in the New Yorker for community violence intervention programs in Baltimore, MD. Dr. Joseph Richardson's position as an ethnographic researcher and interventionist studies the roots and consequences of community violence primarily on young Black men. Richardson reviews the effects of community violence programming on its ability to provide psychosocial services to trauma-induced survivors of gun and community violence. 

In the article, Richardson and other researchers from Johns Hopkins University and the University of Maryland, College Park planned to study the effectiveness of "Safe Streets", known as Baltimore's flagship crime reduction program, and its ability to obstruct gun violence. 

See the full article: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/02/06/when-law-enforcement-alone-cant-stop-the-violence