After conducting many operational tests for the military, writing dozens of reports, editing hundreds more, and giving professional advice (on request) to many more agencies and analysts conducting studies on public health, public safety, and related security topics, I cannot help but be puzzled as to why CDC (and a great many other health-care professionals including MDs) are so interested in poking their noses into this topic at all: social “maladies” like crime have nothing to do with issues of sanitation and infectious disease.
They strike me as intellectually dishonest ... full of unseemly ambition to move outside their defined specialties and stage the equivalent of an imperialistic “takeover” of other realms of research. Or perhaps the terms “palace coup” might describe their actions more accurately.
I believe that it was the Obama administration that tasked them with the research. Unfortunately they tasked an honest researcher to do the study. Didn’t like the findings so just buried the report.