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They'd arrest those "associated" with the victim for misdemeanor charges?
Yup! The study successfully showed that when someone is shot, the short-term probability of someone else up to two degrees of separation from the victim goes up considerably. So if the cops can legally get some of them off the street, they actually wind up doing those arrested a favor, not to mention reducing the short-term risk of more violence.
"As many policy decisions as possible need to be driven by the numbers that most nearly and comprehensively reflect the reality of the applicable situation."
What is this supposed to mean? It's simply a numbers game?
That's the TL;DR version, but as I've alluded to here, it goes far deeper than just numbers. It's also about social structures and connections, ex., gang memberships.