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.
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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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4 Investigates: A different approach to policing, violent crime reduction
In late 2019, members of the Greater Albuquerque Greater Chamber of Commerce and law enforcement leaders traveled to the John ...
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Trump signs order addressing police misconduct, but some experts say it’s not enough
Much of the proposals outlined in the executive order have been explored by some of the more than 15,000 police ...
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‘Defund the police’ movement: What will it mean in Rochester and across the country?
"Police officers don’t want to be the only way that cities respond to people in emotional distress," Kennedy said. "They ...
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Protests focus on over-policing. But under-policing is also deadly.
There is reason to be optimistic that crime-reduction strategies can be both effective and just. For instance, there’s compelling evidence ...
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What Could Police Reform Look Like
Director of the National Network for Safe Communities David Kennedy discussed police reform on PIX 11 ...
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What would it mean to ‘defund the police’? These cities offer ideas
Programs in Dallas, Milwaukee and Salinas, California, have drawn the attention of activists seeking to end law enforcement's systemic abuse ...
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