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A well-known public health expert said the UK should learn from the work of systematic reduction of violence in Cali, Colombia, to fight the growing number of crimes committed on the streets of Britain. Work in Colombia resulted in a significant reduction in homicides between 1995 and 2018.
Write in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, Professor John Ashton describes how, in the face of the horrendous toll of more than 1,000 drug-related homicides each year, the Mayor of Cali, Public Health Professor Rodrigo Guerrero and his colleague Dr. Alberto Concha-Eastman have adopted a model clbadic public health to tackle the problem.
The model is based on a detailed understanding and mapping of time, place and person with appropriate interventions to match. Interventions in Cali included restricting the sale of alcohol in affected neighborhoods and access to weapons, police surveillance and enforcement by 24-hour courts, the fight against organized crime, as well as a holistic approach to reducing poverty, increasing opportunities for education and employment and mobilizing communities, including especially the mothers of young men, fearing that their son would be next to the morgue.
In 1995, the homicide rate in Cali per 100,000 population was 100. This figure was reduced to 47.3 per 100,000 population in 2018.
Professor Ashton said: "The current popular refrain for a public health response to violence is linked to recent efforts in Glasgow, which seem to have an impact, but this approach can be attributed to the systematic work done in Cali in the past. . 30 years.
"The UK is now at a stage that requires stronger community organization and participation, linked to the action of the entire system, if we want to reduce the crime of knife and violence in the streets We have a lot to learn from our Cali colleagues. "
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