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There's a lot of depressing news about gun violence in America.

But the good news is that there are people working on solutions.

I met up with New York congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to talk about one possible solution

right here in New York City.

I met with the congresswoman at Jacoby Hospital in the Bronx to discuss it stand up to violence

program, which has shown an impressive 46 percent reduction in retaliatory violence in

its first few years.

Is a Democrat focused on violence?

Isn't that off brand?

Well, I'm from the Bronx, so it's on brand for where I'm from.

There is a lot of discussion around what what progressives can do about violence in a big city.

What the data has showed us is that if you respond to violence as a public health issue,

instead of as an incarceration issue, violence decreases.

And that's what we're doing here at Jacoby Hospital.

Are there cops here at the hospital that are dressing the issue?

Hell no.

Okay.

No, this is, listen, and there's security presence and police presence that is standard

in any hospital.

But that's not what this program is about.

In the traditional response to an incidence of violence, a shooting or a stabbing, you

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