Rebroadcast: Keeping our communities safe

This Is Nashville · Apr 5, 2022 · 50m

Note: This episode originally aired on March 24, but the show was unexpectedly interrupted by a press conference with President Joe Biden about the war in Ukraine. We are re-airing this so listeners can hear the full episode.

Everyone wants to live in a safe community. The big question is, what is the best way to prevent violence?

The 2020 murder of George Floyd created new urgency across the country to find alternatives to policing. Nashville was no exception. Over the past few years, one local anti-violence group, Gideon’s Army, has been trying out one approach called violence interruption…