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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Americans Don’t Really Understand Gun Violence
Some police departments do carefully track shootings, but most keep that data internal. In New York City, for example, police ...
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House: violence ‘a public health crisis’
Violent crime in Bermuda is a public health crisis, national security minister Wayne Caines told Parliament this morning. Specifically addressing ...
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A Better Way to Deal With Intimate Partner Violence
In this op-ed for Governing Magazine, IPVI Director Rachel Teicher explains why victims of intimate partner and domestic violence don't trust ...
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Tackling history of race and policing starts with well-informed officers
In this op-ed for The Hill, two Pittsburgh Bureau of Police officers involved with the National Initiative for Building Community ...
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Why Do We Ignore Initiatives That Reduce Gun Violence?
"While movies, television and news outlets often give the impression that entire cities and neighborhoods are filled with thugs, criminals ...
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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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