“We are seeing the political shift that is happening in real time here,” David Kennedy, director of National Network for Safe Communities and a criminal justice professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice said.
Critics see Chicago as emblematic of chaos that could follow decreases in police funding. Experts say the relationship between policing and gun violence is nuanced.
MORE Justice is putting particular focus on asking local law enforcement agencies, as well as city and county governments, to commit to a concept called Group Violence Intervention. This program, developed by the National Network for Safe Communities at John Jay College in New York, focuses on reducing violence among young men in communities of
“When it comes to policing and public safety, I really think the world just changed,” Kennedy said. Kennedy says he’s been paying close attention to the Camden situation for quite a while, and he thinks it’s time for other places across the U.S. to consider a change.
The recent spotlight on deadly use-of-force encounters has led John Jay College of Criminal Justice Professor David Kennedy to ruminate whether the field of policing should have its own Hippocratic Oath.
In late 2019, members of the Greater Albuquerque Greater Chamber of Commerce and law enforcement leaders traveled to the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City to learn how to implement violence intervention strategies, and they traveled to New Haven, Connecticut to see the strategies in action. The KOB 4 Investigates later
Much of the proposals outlined in the executive order have been explored by some of the more than 15,000 police departments across the country, said David Kennedy, a criminologist at John Jay College.
“Police officers don’t want to be the only way that cities respond to people in emotional distress,” Kennedy said. “They don’t want to be the only way that cities respond to the opioid epidemic and to overdoses.
There is reason to be optimistic that crime-reduction strategies can be both effective and just. For instance, there’s compelling evidence that focused deterrence strategies, like Boston’s Operation Ceasefire,
Director of the National Network for Safe Communities David Kennedy discussed police reform on PIX 11