Is New York's Wave of Gun Violence Receding? Experts See Reason for Hope.

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% : Jeffrey Butts, the director of the research and evaluation center at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, has been conducting analyses of quarterly shooting totals, comparing three-month periods between 2020 and 2021.
44% : Christopher Herrmann, a professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice who was once an analyst for the Police Department, said that if shootings continue to remain significantly up from prepandemic levels into spring and summer 2022, "I think we've got to start asking ourselves, 'What are we going to do now?'
36% : "In April and May, all indications were that where we were headed was even worse than most of last year," said Marcos Gonzalez Soler, who heads the mayor's office of criminal justice.

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