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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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States move to restrict domestic abusers from carrying guns
Michael Siegel, a professor of community health sciences at the Boston University School of Public Health, published a study this ...
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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 ...
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Jeff Sessions’s evidence-free crime strategy
In an op-ed for The Hill, Director David Kennedy pushes back against Attorney General Jeff Sessions's "tough-on-crime" rhetoric and regression ...
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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 ...
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Stripping elected officials of power only undermines voters
In an op-ed for The Hill, IIP Executive Director Meg Reiss argues that the Florida Supreme Court disenfranchised the will ...
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American policing is broken. Here’s how to fix it.
In this piece, Vox's German Lopez cites NNSC Director David Kennedy on how to improve police-community relations. The first step? Police must ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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