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.
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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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York City’s top cop invites public to join him in ‘walking the walk’ twice a week
The walks are just one way to get officers out of police cruisers and into neighborhoods on foot, where they ...
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Column: Police officers need resources to work within the community
I was encouraged to read two pages later the Dispatch article "Violence prevention initiative to focus on shooter," about the ...
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How Joe Biden’s Presidency Could Impact Criminal Justice in New York
Under Biden, the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division, which has been extensively hamstrung under Trump, will likely be funded ...
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Breaking the Cycle of Intımate-Partner Violence
A new strategy is changing the way Kingston, New York, addresses the harms of intimate-partner violence. “We had been putting ...
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Opinion: Louisville mayor, next police chief need to champion an end to gun violence
Gun violence is at an all-time high in Louisville. Not even halfway through November, we’ve had 143 homicides — 22 percent ...
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Minneapolis Public Safety Update
“Effective violence prevention looks a lot like contact tracing,” said Kennedy, the director of John Jay College’s National Network for ...
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In record year for homicides, group violence intervention program coming to Louisville
"We just want the violence to stop," Gwynn said. "It's such a cliche, but it's true. It's babies killing babies ...
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New violence prevention initiative in Columbus to focus on the perpetrators
A new initiative to tackle the record levels of violence within the city will identify some of the key players and bring ...
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‘Common sense’ bond key to preventing violence
“My office is very blunt about this: Violence is visited with massive disproportion on people and communities of color in ...
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