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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A brilliant op-ed by Andrew Papachristos explains an amazing predictive tool that has helped the natural and medical sciences explain epidemics such as HIV, AIDS and cholera. He unequivocaly demonstrates the technique's applicability to the social sciences and shows how it has already been used to help communities across the country reduce their local violence problem.
If you run with a bad crowd, statistically speaking, you’ll get in trouble.
Faced with one of the highest murder rates in the country, the city of New Orleans is trying to cure gun violence one young man at a time through Mayor Landreiu's NOLA FOR LIFE comprehensive murder reduction strategy.
Chicago’s murder rate is down but for a myriad of reasons, but the city is still perceived as the face of urban violence in the U.S. WBEZ's Natalie Moore discusses how the media molds public perception of violence in Chicago. Dr. Rosalind Blasingame-Buford of BUILD Inc. discusses the impact of PTSD on youth victims of gang violence that go beyond the communities they are already living in.
A Yale University study published by the American Journal of Public Health that focused on Chicago's gun homicide records from 2006 to 2011 showed that six percent of the population was involved in 70 percent of homicides. "They call this the 'cousin rule,'" said Andrew Papachristos, lead author of the study.
Can police prevent domestic violence simply by telling offenders to stop?
In implementing National Network's model, Philadelphia's trying some creative approaches, says police Lt. Gary Ferguson — even going after mundane violations such as illegally connecting to electric or gas lines.
Six months after Philadelphia held it's call-in meeting, authorities are touting the targeted focused deterrence enforcement as contributing to significant reductions in shootings and homicides in the South Division, where the effort was implemented.
In October 2013, Bridgeport, CT, in partnership with the National Network for Safe Communities, launched Project Longevity. “Project Longevity is about choices. If you make good choices, we have resources to help you succeed," said Brigdeport Police Chief Joe Gaudett.
Officer Rebecca Calogero of the High Point, N.C., Police Department talks with James E. Lloyd at the corner of English Road and Kennedy Avenue, which used to be ground zero for the local drug market in High Point's West End area.
Pico’s Lifeline to Healing project aims to reduce gun violence in high-risk communities through a coalition of community groups, local clergy and government agencies at all levels. Lifelines first brought together local church leaders—including Pastor McBride and Rev. Billy Dixon, Jr—to head Friday Night Walks, during which marchers listen to the concerns of, and show solidarity with, residents in East Oakland’s more violent neighborhoods.
At a forum at Yale Law School sponsored by the Yale World Fellows program, Andrew Papachristos told an international crime-fighting gathering about a disease that targets young black males—and can’t be solved one victim at a time. The disease he detected: urban crime. Papachristos and New Haven Police Chief Dean Esserman joined Enrique Betancourt, former executive director of Mexico’s National Center for Crime Prevention and Citizen Participation to take a broad look at the problem of urban violence.
In the first step of Stockton's Operation Ceasefire approach, young people with prior gang related charges were brought into a call-in, where police, district and federal prosecutors, social workers and community members show them the harm their violence has caused. If any member of the gang or group commits another violent act, as many other members of the group as possible are arrested on other charges. Using analytics software, police gathers data to map complex social and criminal links among gang members. Many cities, including Stockton, California are trying this two-pronged approach to tackle high homicide rates: the entire gang or group gets in trouble, with the hope other members will take heed.
After experiencing a homicide rate that earned it international attention last year, Chicago is upending the traditional style of policing and using social networks to rank people’s likelihood of killing and being killed.
