The National Network’s approach has attracted significant media attention over the 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.
The National Network convenes regular conferences, working sessions and webinars to discuss and promote developments in its core areas of operation, showcase innovations, and set research and development priorities.
Crime intervention in Columbus: Shifting the mind to save a life
“What we don’t say is that these groups are in and around Columbus and they’re the ones who are getting ...
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How a US strategy is helping gang members in Malmö turn their lives around
After years of increasingly violent gang crime in Malmö, the southern Swedish city was faced with little choice but to ...
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George Floyd’s murder: Police accountability key to earning public trust, former Birmingham captain says
So where do we go from here? This verdict won’t change the mistrust that many people of color have with ...
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Activists Say Derek Chauvin’s Conviction Shows What Police Accountability Can Look Like, Call For Legislation To Enact Systemic Change
So far, reform in our area includes releasing police disciplinary records to changing hiring and training practices. Policing expert Paul Smith, of ...
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Biden wants to give anti-violence groups $5 billion. Here’s how it could be spent.
For decades, anti-violence crusaders have preached new approaches to curb shootings. Now, the White House is listening. Deep inside President ...
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Certain Colorado mass shootings prompt change. Other gun deaths don’t.
Eight people were fatally shot in Denver in the first week of July 2020, but no lawmakers called Jason McBride, a ...
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Traffic stops make poverty a crime, retired Birmingham police captain says
During my tenure as the Commander of the West Precinct of the Birmingham Police Department, the city’s largest precinct, I ...
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Understanding the landscape: New partnership uses ‘group violence intervention’ approach
EVANSVILLE, Ind. — A recent initiative to reduce homicides and other violent crime through a partnership with the National Network for Safe Communities is in its ...
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US criminologist lauds Malmö for anti-gang success
The US criminologist behind the anti-gang strategy designed to reduce the number of shootings and explosions in Malmö has credited ...
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Activists Push For Police Firings, But Elected Officials Don’t Have Power To Do That
Since this summer, calls for nationwide police reform have grown ever louder. But meaningful change has been slow to follow ...
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Theodore Decker: For lessons in reducing violence, Columbus should look west
Shortly after the city of Columbus announced a partnership with criminologist David Kennedy to dig deep into the rising tide ...
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CeaseFire Columbus: When the Killings Stopped
“The theory is that there is a small percentage of individuals committing the large amount of violent crime that is ...
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