Breaking the cycle: How to stop violence before it starts

MPR News with Angela Davis

When violence erupts, it creates a shock wave that impacts entire communities. The trauma embeds itself in both victims and perpetrators, and like a virus, often spreads and multiplies. How do we break the cycle?

Last week, MPR News host Angela Davis sat down with community leaders for a live In Focus conversation. How does violent crime wound us, and how can we allow those wounds to heal? What are some new and creative strategies to inoculate communities from the contagion of violence.

Listen to the discussion at 9 a.m on Tuesday.

Guests:

• Lynnaia Jacobsen works as the Neighborhood Safety Community Council manager in St. Paul’s Office of Neighborhood Safety, which was created in 2022.




• Isaac Russell is the chair of St. Paul’s newly launched Neighborhood Safety Community Council. He also serves as director of public policy at the Center for Economic Inclusion.




• Darlene Fry is the executive director of Irreducible Grace Foundation, a St. Paul nonprofit focused on creating safe spaces with youth of color through mentoring, self-care practices and life skills.

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