Scores of American cities have implemented the National Network's strategies with powerful impact over nearly two decades. Substantial research and field experience has proven that these interventions are associated with large reductions in violence and other serious crime.
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March 2013 | KAWL
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March 2013 | Metro Times
Detroit Ceasefire offers new tactics against gangs and violence
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March 2013 | Syracuse.com
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March 2013 | New York Times
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March 2013 | Democracy Journal
Being tough on criminals hasn’t worked, but neither has being lenient. Mark Kleiman's essay on crime control makes a strong case that despite recent crime decline we've seen over the past two decades, crime levels remain unacceptably high and reducing crime levels using the SCF strategy would yield enormous economic and social dividends.
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February 2013 | Huffington Post
This video is part of High Point's entry in the Mayors Challenge Fan Favorite Selection, a partnership between The Huffington Post and Bloomberg Philanthropies that explains the High Point Offender-Focused Domestic Violence Initiative.
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February 2013 | USA Today
As the economy struggles to recover from the recession and Washington is mired in gridlock and partisanship, Americans are banding together to
confront their problems and find innovative solutions.
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February 2013 | NBC Nightly News
NBC Nightly News launched a week-long series investigating gun violence in America by highlighting New Orleans’ early successes in cutting its homicide rate since adopting the National Network’s group violence intervention (GVI) strategy as a central element of its NOLA for Life campaign.
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February 2013 | Washington Monthly
African Americans suffer from high rates of incarceration and crime. Mark Kleiman writes about how to drastically reduce both using the SCF framework.
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January 2013 | Canton Repository
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January 2013 | Daily Press
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January 2013 | KLAS-TV Las Vegas
January 2013 | Oregon Public Broadcasting
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January 2013 | KGO 810 News Radio
KGO's Beth Houston takes a look at the operations and motivations of Oakland's Operation Ceasefire anti-violence program.
January 2013 | Bill Moyers' Group Think
Tracey Meares discusses Chicago's group violence strategy and how treating participants with fairness and respect can foster the idea of promoting the individual agency of offenders to make good choices rather than bad ones.
January 2013 | WKRC
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January 2013 | Chicago Magazine
From homicide and heat waves in Chicago to New York’s recovery from Sandy Hook: the importance of “neighborhood effects” and “collective efficacy” on crime and other critical issues of public health.
January 2013 | New York Times
A New York Times analysis of homicides and census data in Chicago compared areas near murders to those that were not. Residents living near homicides in the last 12 years were much more likely to be black, earn less money and lack a college degree.
December 2012 | The Record
In 2012, Stockton, CA, revamped its' Operation Ceasefire efforts to combat their sustainable increases in violent crime. The slow start of the program caused cries of criticism from the public who were tired of the violence.
December 2012 | Denver Post
December 2012 | Journal Star
An arrest was made in an armed robbery from three months ago after
the victim decided to work with police, in part due to the Don’t Shoot
campaign.
December 2012 | Denver Post
Denver Police Chief Robert White hopes his gang initiative will help drive down violence and improve relationships with the community.
December 2012 | WNPR News
Project Longevity is being called a “permanent feature” of law enforcement in New Haven, based on the concept that gun violence is caused mainly by a small number of street group members.
December 2012 | CI News 25
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December 2012 | OakTalk
