" Don't Shoot will do for the fight against violence what Rachel Carson's Silent Spring did for the environmental movement a generation ago.

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         -- Malcolm Gladwell

"Read his important book - part jeremiad, part gripping crime thriller - and you will believe... This is how we, as a nation, can and must finally back out of the rolling destruction, by death and mass incarceration, of our cities, our society, and our moral character"
         -- Boston Globe

"From roughly the spot on the Venn diagram of intellectual culture where Malcolm Gladwell and David Simon overlap... Kennedy's work suggest[s] that optimism [is] possible"
         -- New Republic

"[Kennedy] argues for a crime-fighting program that makes a lot more sense than anything you're likely to hear about in Washington (or, for that matter, your local statehouse). The book reads like a thriller, but it's full of commonsense solutions to a few seemingly insurmountable problems"
         -- Very Short List