New York is one of the most recent states to try a new anti-violence program, called Operation SNUG (guns spelled backwards), also known as Ceasefire. The creator of SNUG is an epidemiologist, Gary Slutkin, who included five key components to the program: community mobilization, youth outreach, public education, faith-based leader involvement and law enforcement participation. One of the most interesting aspects of the program is that it uses former criminals to personally promote nonviolence on the streets. People who desire to commit violent acts are more likely to listen to those who have already participated in violence and have suffered the consequences. SNUG was first implemented in Chicago 11 years ago and has since spread to more than a dozen cities in the U.S. Officials are now pushing to expand the SNUG program by adding the already existing gun buy-back programs which have already been very successful in New York.
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