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Guns, Policing, Crime, and Drugs

BI Article
Suzanne Ghais: Bridging the Police Community Divide
Long-time conflict resolution practioner and scholar Suzanne Ghais reflects on the dangerous escalation between police and their communities.

BI Article
Revisiting the Gun Violence Issue and America's Declining Trust and Increasing Sense of Threat
A look at what we know about reducing the mutual hostility (associated with escalation and hyper-polarization dynamics) that contributes so much to mass shootings, gun deaths, and interpersonal and political violence.

BI Article
Revisiting the Gun Violence Issue and America's Declining Trust and Increasing Sense of Threat
A look at what we know about reducing the mutual hostility (associated with escalation and hyper-polarization dynamics) that contributes so much to mass shootings, gun deaths, and interpersonal and political violence.

Colleague Activities
Rand Policy Currents: Addressing Gun Violence in America
There is limited evidence to show which laws prevent mass shootings specifically, bans on high-capacity magazines appear to reduce the number of deaths in mass shootings.

Colleague Activities
Polarized Misperceptions of The Magnitude of Police Violence - BCB #72
It's not just differences in values that can drive conflict, but differences in knowledge. Liberals' estimates of the magnitude of the problem are way off.

News and Opinion
Which Gun Laws Work? Article in RAND Policy Currents
A six-year study evaluating scientific evidence about the effects of various gun laws on homicides, suicides, and mass shootings.