In an op-ed for the The New York Times, Harvard researcher Thomas Abt responds to the 2016 FBI crime data report & makes the case for a new national dialogue on crime—a dialogue informed by evidence and not by ideology. He also had more than a few things to say about why our Group Violence Intervention is
Michael Siegel, a professor of community health sciences at the Boston University School of Public Health, published a study this week showing that states that require people with restraining orders to relinquish the firearms they already own have a 14 percent lower rate of intimate-partner gun-related homicides than states that don’t.
New Orleans averaged a murder about every other day in the first six months of 2017 – startling for a city of less than 400,000 people – but the police chief said last week he was encouraged by a dip in killings that started the second half of the year. The city went without a murder
In an op-ed for The Hill, Director David Kennedy pushes back against Attorney General Jeff Sessions's “tough-on-crime” rhetoric and regression to War on Drugs-style policies of the 1980s. “We need effective crime reduction strategies, just as we did in the '80s … and we know enough to do better this time,” Kennedy says. “We should do
Before Joe Alvarez landed a job welding for renowned sculptor Frank Stella, and before the Newburgh native founded the grassroots organization behind many of the city’s positive initiatives, he was “Florida Rock.” Alvarez is one example of how teenagers and young men mired in drug dealing and violent crime can turn around their lives. That
In an op-ed for The Hill, IIP Executive Director Meg Reiss argues that the Florida Supreme Court disenfranchised the will of the people in its Aramis Ayala vs. Rick Scott decision, and that this decision impacts the fate of all democratically elected prosecutors.
In this piece, Vox's German Lopez cites NNSC Director David Kennedy on how to improve police-community relations. The first step? Police must acknowledge the history of harm perpetuated by their institutions, else community distrust of law enforcement will persist.
The July 13 meeting in the Niagara Falls Public Library was set up under a state-sponsored program called GIVE – Gun-Involved Violence Elimination – used in 17 counties since 2014. Meeting with felons is one way the program tries to reach its goal of reducing violent crime, and the batting average for the GIVE program seems good: of