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.
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David Kennedy addresses local law enforcement, pastors, and community agencies in Canton, OH, who gathered to address gang crime.
South Bend's community arm stages an antiviolence event at a local barber shop.
Chicago PD Supt. Garry McCarthy explains the role custom notifications play in the city's strategy to prevent the summer surge of violence.
A heroin dealer from Charleston, SC engaged by the city's DMI partnership faces swift consequences when he continues to sell drugs in the overt market in nearby Huntington, WV.
Police and prosecutors meet with Kansas City group members to issue a stern warning at a call-in in March.
South Bend's deputy mayor discusses the city's partnership with David Kennedy and the National Network and his conviction to getting the Group Violence Intervention right.
There are many nonfatal shooting victims in Chicago, and an astonishing number of them know each other. Sociologist Andrew Papachristos explains why that’s important.
When it comes to violent crime, the way we talk about numbers is important. National Network partner and SNA pioneer Andrew Papachristos weighs in.
WNYC's Kathleen Horan discusses closing the divide between the NYPD and a Brooklyn community and how to be tough on crime without alienating the citizens you've vowed to protect and serve.
On MSNBC's weekly Call to Action, Ronan Farrow and David Kennedy discuss a new report that shows a high incidence of minority arrests made in schools across the country.
Project Longevity, a program targeting violent criminals that was launched in the capital city last fall, held its first call-in meeting in Hartford, putting law enforcement officials, social-service providers and community members face-to-face with members of Hartford's street gangs and drug crews.
An op-ed asks: would the State of Pennsylvania stand behind a strategy that has shown that violence can be dramatically reduced when community members and law enforcement join together to directly engage violent street groups and clearly communicate a message against violence?
Chattanooga VRI service partners step forward to help group members with job readiness and other important resources.
Chicago community members talk to CNN about the trauma of experiencing violence in the areas of the city where it's seriously concentrated.
An op-ed discusses the first hand experience of witnessing Chattanooga's powerful first call-in.
Baltimore Police Commissioner Anthony W. Batts and other top members of the agency visit counterparts in Chicago to observe their Violence Reduction Strategy in action.
Los Angeles Police Department Capt. Todd Chamberlain worked with line officers to make a list of high risk repeat offenders in the city's Mission District and hand-deliver custom notifications to them.
Professor Keith Humphreys, Professor of Psychiatry at Stanford University, formerly senior drugs policy advisor to President Obama, is a prominent advocate of a new generation of swift, certain, and fair (SCF) community supervision systems in the U.S. that are dramatically cutting substance misuse, crime and imprisonment. Humphreys lectured at Policy Exchange about how policymakers can better gear the criminal justice system to change behavior and substantially cut reoffending.
SF Gate interviews two men who have made major life changes after receiving help from service partners of Oakland Ceasefire.
Pointing to a nearly 16 percent decrease in gang-related shootings this year through March 13 compared with the same period last year, Chicago Police Supt. Garry McCarthy said that the city's strategy to reduce gang violence is "clearly taking root."
UCLA Luskin's professor of public policy Mark Kleiman discusses how using SCF sanctions as a complement to drug treatment can encourage users to get off drugs on NYT's Room for Debate.
Chattanooga's Times Free Press discusses the city's preparation for its first call-in.
