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.
As he begins his second full week on the job, Chief of Police Fred Fletcher says Chattanooga's Violence Reduction Initiative is on track.
Newark is beginning to communicate the National Network for Safe Communities' core principles directly to group members as a part of it's Violence Reduction Initiative: a message of the community’s need for the violence to stop, a message on the consequences of continued violence, and a genuine offer of help to those who want it.
A new study of gun violence in Chicago, led by Yale sociologist Andrew Papachristos, reveals that a person's social network is a key predictor in whether an individual will become a victim of gun homicide, even more so than race, age, gender, poverty, or gang affiliation.
South Bend Police say two men who failed to show up for a mandatory recent group violence intervention "call in" are headed back to jail. That call-in about a month ago targeted 28 men with influence in the "group" or gang community. The men were required to attend as a condition of parole.
Judge Steven Alm gives a presentation about the HOPE program at the Policy Exchange about This program delivers swift and certain punishment designed to change behavior with the recognition that the swiftness and certainty of punishment is more important than severity.
City partners from Baton Rouge traveled to New York for the National Network's Ceasefire University workshop. The Baton Rouge Area Violence Elimination (BRAVE) has already made great strides in reducing the city's homicide rate by implementing the Group Violence Intervention. This workshop focused on assisting BRAVE to institutionalize current methods, track non-fatal shootings, host further call-ins, conduct custom notifications, and strengthen the relationship between police and community members.
Recent shootings inspired partners of Cincinnati Initiative to Reduce Violence (CIRV) to reboot the strategy and focus on the city's hot spots, focusing not only the members of "groups" or gangs, but where they meet.
U.S. Attorney Zachary Fardon speaks on the measures his office is taking to combat crime, calling on business, law, and civic leaders to provide an alternative to the gang life offered to youth in Chicago. He unveiled one new initiative, the Youth Outreach Forum, launched this month in the Englewood and Garfield Park neighborhoods and is modeled after the Project Safe Neighborhoods program that uses a carrot-and-stick approach to try to keep those convicted of violent crimes from re-offending.
The South Bend Group Violence Intervention partners discuss the continuation of the project in a public forum.
Baton Rouge Violence Area Elimination or project researchers focus on "brokers," or people with unique connections to multiple gangs across East Baton Rouge Parish, in order to intervene in patterns of violence within the community.
An op-ed in the South Bend Tribune by South Bend Group Violence Intervention project manager Rose Meissner explains the strategy and its potential to change the city.
South Bend law enforcement discusses the effectiveness of the partnership's first call-in meeting with group members.
The South Bend GVI working group talks to the public about the impact the call-in had on the group members who attended.
National Network's David Kennedy and Chris Mallette talk to South Bend Fox 28 about the impact of GVI in Chicago and how it can work in South Bend.
At a press conference, South Bend PD explains the GVI strategy to the media and larger community.
Members of the South Bend GVI working group explain the promises of the call-in during a public forum.
South Bend GVI partners tell group members "We'll help you if you let us, we'll stop you if you make us."
Local TV news reports on South Bend partnership's first GVI call-in.
Local TV news reports on South Bend partnership's first GVI call-in.
South Bend Tribune reports on South Bend Group Violence Intervention partnership's first call-in.
South Bend GVI partners explain to the public in a press conference that very few people drive the majority of the city's violence and that the new strategy aims to address them.
WNYC reports on the relationship between police and New York City residents and its effect on violent crime. National Network Director David Kennedy weighs in.
Community members in the city of Canton, Ohio welcome the revival of the Cincinnati Initiative to Reduce Violence (CIRV) in Stark County.
In this April 2014 talk at Swarthmore College, David Kennedy, alumnus of graduating class of 1980 explores an applied ethics of crime control. In 2011, Kennedy received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Swarthmore College.
