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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Experts call it a community approach to combating crime.
Kennedy, who introduced his unorthodox but highly successful approach to crime prevention in Baltimore in the late 1990s and left under the Martin O’Malley mayoral administration, has been recruited to return to Baltimore by Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake.
U.S. Attorney Bill Nettles is pursuing a bold new approach to the “war on drugs” in South Carolina.
Under their “custom notifications” program, Chicago police try to forestall shootings by visiting and talking to people identified as likely to be involved in violence before anything happens.
Murders in Connecticut last year dropped below 100 for the first time in a decade, according to a memo from the governor's office that credits statewide initiatives aimed at combating violence. Statewide criminal arrests hit a ten-year-low as population increased, and non-fatal shootings in the state's three largest cities dropped consecutively over the past three years.
Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy explains the results CPD is seeing from custom notifications, a technique NNSC developed to communicate with key street group members and the people influential in their lives in order to stop the shooting.
State, parish and city SWAT teams raided six homes simultaneously just before sunrise Friday morning in a crackdown on the well-known “Big Money Block Boyz” gang that led to seven arrests and the seizure of numerous drugs and guns.
Mayor Rawlings-Blake proposes new tactics to stem homicides and shootings
As part of a two-year pilot program, a handful of those involved in the Worcester superior and district courts are adopting a model built on the HOPE framework originated by Judge Steven Alm over a decade ago in Hawaii.
NewsHour Weekend profiles an innovative probation program in Hawaii that has been so successful in reforming offenders and keeping them out of prison, it's now being copied in courtrooms across the nation.
A few years ago, High Point had one of the highest violent crime rates in the state. In 2004, the city reconfigured a plan called Operation Ceasefire to fit it's drug market intervention strategy and saw dramatic results, including a 64 percent decrease in violent crime. NPR's Celeste Headlee interviews Chief of Police Marty Sumner about how High Point is now expanding the plan to include strategies that deal with robberies and domestic violence, how they're helping other similarly sized cities as well as larger cities like Chicago deal with violent crime.
Officials credit cooperation for 22 percent decrease.
NPR's Cherly Corley and host of NPR's Morning Edition David Greene discuss news headlines dealing with violent crime claiming the lives of innocent people. Despite Chicago's grim numbers, the city's crime rate is not exceptional when compared with other large cities. A study but Yale University sociologist Andrew Papachristos, which looks at Chicago's crime levels over nearly 50 years, says the city is on track to have the lowest crime rate since 1972 and the lowest murder rate in 45 years. Supt. Garry McCarthy says it's not victory, but it is real progress. "We're partnering closely with the community," he said.
From Chip Kelly to Focused Deterrence to the PAWS Instagram to the Zoo’s big cats, Philly had plenty to be proud of, too.
PBS Weekend takes a look at an NYPD program called the Juvenile Robbery Intervention Program (JRIP), developed by former NYC Housing Bureau Chief and current NYPD Chief of the Bureau of Community Affairs Joanne Jaffe. JRIP's aim is to mentor and monitor teens who have been arrested for a robbery and keep them out of the system. The report's focus is on two NYC neighborhoods of Brownsville and East Harlem.
A new study with some of National Network's outside partners, along with the Chicago police department and a MacArthur Foundation grant, shows carefully treating individuals in social networks, not broad-based racial profiling, could reduce gun violence in an unprecedented way.
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