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On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti

How Dallas tackled violent crime

On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti

WBUR

News, On Point, Npr, Talk Show, Daily

4.33.9K Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

The city of Dallas reduced its overall violent crime by 30% compared to this time last year. Its mayor and police chief credit the so-called “hot spot policing.”

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On Point is WBUR’s award-winning, daily public radio show and podcast. Every weekday, host Meghna Chakrabarti leads provocative conversations that help make sense of the world.

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A conversation with Dean Susan Fournier, where she

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answers the question at the heart of the show.

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This is on point.

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Anton Lucky is a Texan, born and raised in Mill City, a neighborhood in the southern part of Dallas.

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It was wreaking with drugs, gangs, all kinds of adherence for kids who grew up in that neighborhood to be involved in situations like that.

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More kids didn't have an ally in those kind of neighborhoods.

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So for me, coming outside,

0:57.1

consisted of seeing drug dealers, potential gang members,

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you know, that kind of stuff.

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That was kind of like the neighborhood norm.

1:05.5

Anton grew up in the 1980s.

1:07.4

He was a straight A's honor roll student.

1:10.7

And his mom watched over him to keep him out of trouble.

1:14.0

My mother was a single parent, she worked very hard, she always instilled in me and my siblings this idea of work at this idea of doing right

1:26.5

this idea of not being a participant in the stuff that we see once we went

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