Brandon Scott (Mayor of Baltimore)

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Lemonade Stand · What Can Be Done? | Ep. 047 Lemonade Stand 🍋 · 28 Jan 2026 podcast

It's law in Baltimore that you have to have a comprehensive approach to dealing with gun violence.

And we got to work building that first one.

And we said that it's a public health issue.

So we're going to think about it through a lens of public health.

I, in 2021, rolled out the first one, walked out of a row home in East Baltimore, not unlike this one, and said that this is what we're going to do.

We are going to commit to lowering homicides in Baltimore by 15% from one year to the next.

And people literally laugh.

Impossible.

There's no way.

And it wasn't that they were laughing internally.

That we would set a goal like that.

Yes, they thought that was ridiculous.

But we weren't just saying that we were going to do that by going out and having mass arrests.

We were being very intentional.

We were going to change the way that we operated totally, including with our police department.

We were no longer going to say like, okay, everybody that lives in Park Heights or everybody that lives in this part of West Baltimore is the most likely to be the victim or perpetrator of gun violence.

We were going to actually find out who those people were and focus on them.

That's where our group violence reduction strategy, our focus deterrence model comes from.

We started in the Western District in Baltimore City, which is about 3.7 miles and roughly 60,000 people.

And it was responsible for 16% of the violence in the city in such a small area.

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