(Re)Search for Solutions (Re)Search for Solutions

Episode 6 of (Re)Search for Solutions takes a hard look at how in some cases, communities, especially communities of color, are harmed by efforts claiming to be in service of stopping gun violence. We look at one of the most well-known examples of discriminatory policing, “Stop and Frisk,” and how these types of ineffective practices become legitimized.

What if we considered gun violence as an issue of national security? Increasingly, terrorist groups, and specifically white supremacist extremist terrorists, have been turning to guns as instruments of terror for attacks in the United States.

Episode 4 of (Re)Search for Solutions reflects on the crucial role emergency medicine physicians, who are on the front lines of responding to firearm injuries, play in developing solutions.

In Episode 3 of (Re)Search for Solutions, we discuss firearm suicide prevention. Firearm suicides make up about two-thirds of deaths by firearms, but suicide is sometimes downplayed in conversations about preventing gun violence.

In Episode 2 of (Re)Search for Solutions, we talk about adverse childhood experiences, or “ACEs,” and how they can help us think more broadly about the impacts of gun violence and how to prevent it. We focus on the implications for school safety practices in particular.

Episode 1 of (Re)Search for Solutions discusses greening - the conversion of an overgrown vacant lot to a small, grass-covered community space - as a non-policy-based solution to gun violence. We interviewed Professor Charlie Branas, Chairman of Epidemiology at the Mailman School of Public Health, and Keith Green, Director of the Philadelphia LandCare Program at the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (PHS), about their research into the effects of greening in Philadelphia.

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Production Team: Azsaneé Truss, Joe Riina-Ferrie, Sonali Rajan, and Lalitha Vasudevan
Editing: Azsaneé Truss with the help of the (Re)Search for Solutions team
Music: “Research Area” by Poitr Pacyna
Website: ResearchforSolutions.com

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