Whose Streets?
Oakland residents convinced the city to rethink how it tackled gun violence. Now, amid calls to defund the police, other cities are eyeing its strategy.
July 31, 2020
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Eyeing Portland, some mayors are wary of Trump’s ‘Operation Legend’
Some past joint operations are associated with bringing down crime in some cities. “But those reductions don’t last very long. So the impact of those
July 24, 2020
New York City Shootings Continue to Rise as Officials Try New Anti-Violence Tactics
David Kennedy, director of the National Network for Safe Communities at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, said that other U.S. cities have also seen increases
July 20, 2020
Bankruptcy forced this California city to defund police. Here’s how it changed public safety
As California and the nation debate the aftermath of the George Floyd killing, Stockton has some insights, if not answers, about what it means to
July 13, 2020
July 8, 2020
NYC’s De Blasio Reaches $88.1 Billion Budget With Council
“Most of what the department does is not violence prevention,” said David Kennedy. “It’s not associated with crime. It covers a wide range: domestic disturbances,
June 30, 2020
Demonstrators say public safety re-imagined is a future without police
“We are seeing the political shift that is happening in real time here,” David Kennedy, director of National Network for Safe Communities and a criminal
June 21, 2020
Chicago, crime and the complicated truth behind ‘defund the police’ efforts
Critics see Chicago as emblematic of chaos that could follow decreases in police funding. Experts say the relationship between policing and gun violence is nuanced.
June 20, 2020
Community activists encourage people to keep working to make a change
MORE Justice is putting particular focus on asking local law enforcement agencies, as well as city and county governments, to commit to a concept called
June 19, 2020
Nation looks to Camden, New Jersey, for community-policing model
“When it comes to policing and public safety, I really think the world just changed,” Kennedy said. Kennedy says he’s been paying close attention to
June 19, 2020
Why it is time for a Hippocratic Oath for policing
The recent spotlight on deadly use-of-force encounters has led John Jay College of Criminal Justice Professor David Kennedy to ruminate whether the field of policing should have
June 16, 2020
