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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Pastor tasked with beating gang violence
Pastor Leroy Bean was announced yesterday as Bermuda’s gang violence reduction coordinator. Mr Bean brings personal experience to the position ...
Here’s What Actually Reduces Gun Violence
Some of the strongest evidence on reducing gun violence comes not from controls on gun purchases, but from an approach ...
How Not to Respond to the Rising Murder Rate
In an op-ed for the The New York Times, Harvard researcher Thomas Abt responds to the 2016 FBI crime data ...
New Orleans sees recent dip in murders after spike in first half of 2017
New Orleans averaged a murder about every other day in the first six months of 2017 - startling for a ...
Intervention, other initiatives help turn around young lives in Newburgh
Before Joe Alvarez landed a job welding for renowned sculptor Frank Stella, and before the Newburgh native founded the grassroots ...
Niagara prosecutors try frank talk to steer offenders to better path
The July 13 meeting in the Niagara Falls Public Library was set up under a state-sponsored program called GIVE - Gun-Involved Violence ...
Put the Guns Down: A Chicago Strategy for Curbing Violence
According to a recent report from the Urban Institute, a strategy aimed at reducing gun violence in Chicago by targeting ...
Kalamazoo police using targeted, community-based approach to stop violent crime
In this article and an accompanying TV news segment, WWMT introduces Kalamazoo's GVI implementation, which incorporates a "weekly round table ...
Jacksonville police using new intervention strategy to crack gangs, curb gun violence
It is one of the newest strategies in the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office arsenal to muzzle the gun violence that helped ...
Sheriff touts technology, anti-gang effort in JSO’s fight against violence
Sheriff Mike Williams said part of the National Network for Safe Communities gang initiative was warning the gang members that ...
Community comes together to tackle violence
Representatives from the street, the clergy, the community and Government came together for an anti-violence event at the weekend. The ...
Chattanooga holds first VRI call-in since Mayor announces Roddy as Chief
Chattanooga held its 11th call-in since the Violence Reduction Initiative began in 2014 and the first since Mayor Andy Berke ...
