Denver police solved less than half of all nonfatal shootings last year.

But an arrest is not the only action that can help prevent future
violence, said Emmy Betz, director of the Firearm Prevention Initiative
at the University of Colorado’s Anschutz Medical Campus. “It’s not just
punitive criminal justice, though that’s important in many cases, but it’s
about the factors that led to it and trying to stop the violence there,”
she said. “You need larger community programs and policies that are
addressing those underlying issues as well.”