Dozens of members of a Lexington faith group gathered outside Lexington’s city government headquarters Tuesday evening to demand that Mayor Linda Gorton implement a specific program to reduce gun violence. Members of BUILD, which stands for Building a United Interfaith Lexington through Direct Action, want the city to contract with the National Network for Safe
More than 100 clergy, activists and supporters — nearly all of them bearing signs naming one of the more than 150 people killed in Richmond over the past two years — arrived at City Hall Friday morning hoping to meet Mayor Levar Stoney to discuss gun violence and prevention. Stoney recently announced a number of
This past May, the Cedar Rapids police department implemented the Group Violence Intervention Program. Police Chief Wayne Jerman said the GVI plays a huge part in connecting with the community. “We are seeing huge success. and I think I want to keep it going. That momentum will continue to make a difference here,” said Chief
Ten months after promising to discuss criminal justice reform, Sheriff Mike Williams still hasn’t met with a faith-based community group that is pushing the idea, and it’s not for lack of trying on their part. Members of the Interfaith Coalition for Action, Reconciliation and Empowerment — or ICARE — gathered at the headquarters for the
Oakland’s Ceasefire program even helped the city evade a mid-decade spike in homicides that afflicted other cities, including Chicago and Baltimore, the Giffords report concluded. “When the city made a true commitment to implementing the strategy as it was intended, not just pay it lip service, that’s when we started to see results,” Schaaf said.
When the Dallas Police Department brought on a new chief in February 2021, his mandate was clear: Reduce violent crime. But Garcia and other officials in the city of 1.3 million opted to follow a different model than the one emerging out of other big cities like New York and San Francisco, which have doubled
“We must stop the flow of illegal guns in our city,” Mayor Eric Adams said in a speech Monday announcing his plan to combat gun violence. “The ‘iron pipeline’ must be broken.” Experts say that the city has limited ways to address the flow of guns without stronger federal laws. But even in the midst
The City of Philadelphia launched a pandemic-modified version of the Group Violence Intervention (GVI) strategy in August 2020 as part of our goal of reducing shootings by 30 percent by the end of 2023. The GVI strategy was developed by Professor David Kennedy of the National Network for Safe Communities at John Jay College in
Now is the time when, with a year like 2021 squarely in the rearview mirror, a big city administration feels it can breathe again. I renew the call I made this time last year, that the Ginther administration provide a detailed accounting of its anti-violence efforts, dollar for dollar. We’re told the city is investing
Davenport will spend nearly $400,000 to reduce violent crime and help criminals become productive members of society. Last week, the city council approved a two-year contract with the National Network for Safe Communities. It’s part of a research center at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Sarah Ott, Davenport’s Chief Strategy Officer, says the