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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Neighbors, police, and prosecutors applaud the ‘Drug Market Intervention’ at 12th and Chicon.
Craig Fahle speaks with Saul Green, former Detroit Deputy Mayor and Director of Ceasefire Detroit, responsible for implementing and overseeing the results of the program in Detroit.
The prison population in the United States dropped in 2012 for the third consecutive year, according to federal statistics released on Thursday, in what criminal justice experts said was the biggest decline in the nation’s recent history, signaling a shift away from an almost four-decade policy of mass imprisonment.
Another tactic has been far more critical to making neighborhoods safer, writes David Kennedy.
In the spring of 2006, Angela Hawken flew to Hawaii to investigate year-long innovative pilot penal reform program. The program, called Hawaii’s Opportunity Probation with Enforcement, or HOPE, is based on simple precepts that the judge who created it likened to “Parenting 101.” It immediately jails, for no more than three or four days, offenders who miss a probation appointment or fail a drug test.
Contrary to popular belief, group violence is not just a "big city" problem. Many small cities across the country have seen devastating increases in assaults and killings driven by group violence. According to an analysis of violent crime per capita, all three Connecticut cities that made the most dangerous list--New Haven, Bridgeport, and Hartford, are now adopting Project Longevity, a program that recruits law enforcement and social workers to engage in a sustained relationship with violent groups.
The police say they are tamping down retaliatory shootings between gang factions by using a comprehensive analysis of the city’s tens of thousands of suspected gang members, the turf they claim and their rivalries. The police are also focusing on more than 400 people they have identified as having associations that make them the most likely to be involved in a murder, as a victim or an offender.
