Begun Center’s Daniel Flannery shares concerns of a spike in gun violence throughout Cleveland

Violent surge hits Cleveland’s summer, forcing authorities to scramble

cleveland.com (subscription required): Daniel Flannery, the Dr. Semi J. and Ruth Begun Professor and director of the Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, outlined some of the issues concerning a spike in gun violence this summer in Cleveland. “You can’t just go around doing hotspot policing forever because crime will then disperse to other areas,” he said.