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Podcast: WBEZ News
Episode: Why is Chicago violence plummeting? Some credit street outreach workers
Description: Chicago has recorded 157 murders so far this year.
That’s the fewest through this date of any year in more than a decade.
Some experts are crediting publicly funded street outreach known as community violence intervention.
WBEZ’s Chip Mitchell got a close-up look at that outreach on the city’s West Side.
HOST: DIXON