City Voices and Perspectives: Oxiris Barbot, M.D., Baltimore City Health Commissioner

Street outreach and violence interruption can prevent shootings and killings, and Health Commissioner Oxiris Barbot describes how the Safe Streets program reduced violence in Baltimore. Because of Safe Streets, one neighborhood went nearly two years without a homicide, and non-fatal shootings dropped by more than one-third. Part of the City Voices and Perspectives series, this publication shares evaluation data on Safe Streets, including cost savings figures. Safe Streets is the longest-running replication of the Cure Violence model.