Gun Violence

CUNY TV's One to One

Since COVID, overall crime rate has gone down. But, gun violence has increased primarily in neighborhoods that are impoverished and black. Why have Americans bought 3 million more guns at the beginning of lockdown than the year before? What are the possible causes and solutions to this development? Host Sheryl McCarthy talks with Candace McCoy, Professor of Criminal Justice at CUNY Graduate Center and John Jay College.