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.
Violent Crime in the United States: Focus, Prevention and Legitimacy
PODCAST: Following the recent March for Our Lives, gun violence is front and centre in America’s law and order debate ...
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Ulster County launches first-in-NY effort to reduce domestic violence by intimate partners
The National Network for Safe Communities’ Intimate Partner Violence Intervention (IPVI) was introduced during a press conference Tuesday afternoon at ...
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Domestic abusers: Dangerous for women — and lethal for cops
One local police department has spent the past six years pioneering a strategy that can help identify domestic violence ...
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Taking Aim at Gun Violence, With Personal Deterrence
In this opinion piece for the New York Times, Tina Rosenberg highlights the NNSC's group violence prevention work across jurisdictions ...
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Pittsburgh gun violence drops to 12-year low; mayor credits police anti-gang efforts
Through Tuesday afternoon, the city had seen 14 non-fatal shootings in 2018, Cmdr. Joseph said, compared to 31 through the ...
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Case Study: Using DMI to Combat Covert Opioid Markets
Today’s opioid markets are different from the open-air drug markets that were subject to special attention in past DMI implementations; ...
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Helfrich optimistic about York’s gun-violence initiative
Helfrich said York City residents need to understand that GVI isn't a short-term program. It's how the city will be ...
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Focused Deterrence Strategies Save Lives
An important new meta-analysis of 24 focused deterrence implementations—in particular, the National Network’s Group Violence Intervention and Drug Market Intervention—was ...
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Authorities in Malmö: Stop shooting
"The special thing is that several government agencies work together and that they have the same message and that is: ...
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Newburgh crime rates lowest ‘in over 10 years’
Violent crime in Newburgh continued to fall last year as the city waits for the state to determine if former ...
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