The National Network's approach has attracted significant media attention over twenty years. This page features the most recent coverage of our work and a searchable archive of media about the National Network's projects around the nation and abroad.
The National Network convenes regular conferences, working sessions and webinars to discuss and promote developments in its core areas of operation, showcase innovations, and set research and development priorities.
"The stars may be aligned for community policing to finally generate the returns it once promised, but first we must reassess the laws we ask police to enforce—and the environment we ask them to do it in."
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"In this New Thinking podcast, Judge Jeffrey Kremers of the Milwaukee County Circuit Court brings procedural justice to bear on domestic violence. Sharing his insights from the bench, Judge Kremers talks about the importance of procedural justice for both defendants and survivors as well as their families, and discusses strategies for addressing the unique challenges posed by domestic violence cases."
A report outlining the work of NOLA for Life.
"On the heels of tragedy, community policing in Dallas remains as valuable as ever."
Slate reviews a New York Times story that detailed a significant discrepancies in the way certain judges and prosecutors hand out punishments. 
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"Though some states have reclassified certain felonies in the past, [California's] Prop. 47 was the first time such changes became available retroactively at such a broad scale."
"Though some states have reclassified certain felonies in the past, [California's] Prop. 47 was the first time such changes became available retroactively at such a broad scale."
"A town hall in Gary wasn't going to solve all of the issues surrounding race and policing in one sitting, panelists acknowledged, but at least they were beginning to talk about it."
"The ways that fines and fees can entrap low-income people in the adult courts have received enormous attention in the past year or two. But the systematic imposition of costs on juvenile offenders, with equally pernicious effects on the poorest of them, is far less known."
Institute for Innovation in Prosecution board member Lenore Anderson, "a troubled teen turned prosecutor is bringing them together."
"By its own historical standards, America circa 2016 is a safe place. The country’s violent crime rate is about half of what it was in 1991. Cities, in particular, have become markedly less dangerous. Less than half as many police officers are killed in the line of duty today as in the mid-1970s."
"In an age when policing is under intense scrutiny, new training programs for officers are showing up across the country." This program teaches "officers how to be psychologically prepared to intervene when they see fellow officers on the verge of unethical behavior."
Max Becherer for The New York Times
New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu penned an oped outlining the impressive changes the NOPD is making and how it is sharing those innovations to improve policing across the country.
"A veteran crime reporter explains how police under- and overpolice black Americans."
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The NNSC model is featured in this report as an effective way to reduce violence without overwhelming communities with aggressive law enforcement.
"Anxious new parents in an era of unease."
"The neighborhood of Englewood on Chicago's South Side is among the most dangerous in the country...This is about a group of mothers who are standing up to the violence with the type of stern love only moms can provide."
"As local prosecutors launch specialized units to review wrongful conviction claims, some defense advocates say they are noticing a transparency deficit."
"The high rate of black incarceration remains a horribly destructive social problem. Yet somehow the juggernaut reversed direction 15 years ago. Analyzing how and why that happened could point the way to further reform."
"Renata Phillip was 11 years into a satisfying teaching career when she shocked her friends and family last August by deciding to make a drastic career change: become a police officer. Her decision came amid growing concern over police tactics..."
Trauma may be a top public health priority and developing new solutions to help people cope may reduce violent crime.
"PBS special correspondent Charlayne Hunter-Gault speaks with Gary, Indiana, Mayor Karen Freeman-Wilson, who has been working to mend relations between the community and police in her city."
"Black and white Americans experience law enforcement in fundamentally different ways. We know this because of data."
"Black and white Americans experience law enforcement in fundamentally different ways. We know this because of data."
"San Francisco is seeking to modernize its bail system by using a computer algorithm to predict whether a defendant might re-offend or bolt if freed from jail, an effort to reform long-standing practices that many in the city’s justice system believe penalized the poor and opened up potential racial bias."
Photo: Paul Chinn, The Chronicle
