Mothers of Murdered Columbus Children, an anti-violence group seeking to end violent crime in Columbus, Ohio, stand across from Columbus City Hall. Yet, crime and murders are at their highest levels since the 1990s in LA and other major cities. While COVID-19 claimed more than 300,000 lives in 2020, that same year gun violence and gun crime resulted in 19,000 people killed. Police address crime mostly from the back end—after the crime has occurred. We must—going to the root again—deal fully with the front end of crime as a societal, and mostly preventable, malaise.