Opinion | Homicide and crimes rates are down nationwide. Here’s what we can learn.

Studies of CVI are ongoing, and researchers told me that effectiveness can vary substantially across programs. But reports on New York City, Baltimore and Detroit all suggested significant positive effects. “Historically, CVI programs have mostly been implemented in liberal urban centers,” wrote Logan Seacrest, a resident fellow at the center-right R Street Institute. But he added: “Recent experiments in red states have been encouraging, demonstrating CVI’s adaptability to different political environments and compatibility with bipartisan values such as fiscal restraint and local control.”
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Criminal violence is often cast as an intractable problem. As it turns out, it’s not. Being able to accept the latest good news is essential to hanging on to the gains and making further progress. In some ideal world, the country’s politicians might decide to take the crime issue out of the arena of partisanship and demagoguery and look pragmatically at which policies work to foster safety and justice. As R Street’s Seacrest notes, some ideas actually are shared across our usual lines of division.