Policing as Public Well being

Twenty-first-century policymakers profess a deep dedication to "public well being," they usually now apply the idea to the issue of violent crime in cities. When Joe Biden took workplace as president in 2021, for instance, he promoted the adoption of public-health interventions to deal with an uptick of murders; final June, U.S. Surgeon Normal Vivek Murthy declared gun violence a public-health disaster.