Cape's Green Dot program working to change attitudes on violence

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

When Cape Girardeau police chief Carl Kinnison heard a presentation last year on an anti-violence campaign initiated at the University of Kentucky, he thought introducing it locally would help combat a spree of shootings on the city's south side. No one with information about the crimes was talking to officers, Kinnison said, and the Green Dot program -- aimed at reducing violence and encouraging bystander intervention -- was a way to help change a growing "no snitching" attitude.

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