The National Network for Safe Communities is working together with the Evansville Police Department to combat crimes people commit as part of a group. Police say they are seeing a trend in violent crimes. “The group violence is what’s overtaking not just Evansville, Indiana, but pretty much urban cities all over our country,” Evansville Police
Last year, Mayor Greg Fischer and former United States Attorney Russell Coleman joined community leaders, Louisville Metro Police and Metro Council to announce the new approach to violence prevention. The multi-step program works by directly engaging those most intimately involved in and affected by violence. “So, if you look at today’s shooter, 10 times out
KINGSTON, N.Y. — The Ulster County District Attorney’s office has been awarded a $500,000 grant through the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office on Violence Against Women to improve law enforcement’s response to incidents of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault and stalking. The DA’s office, in collaboration with the National Network for Safe Communities at
Stevenson has been trying to “correct” violence for years after being released from federal prison for drug convictions. He was known as an influential person on the street, but this time he was a promoter of peace. He says GVI differs from past programs because of its aggressive approach. Collaboration,” explains Stephenson. “They didn’t happen,
A team of six researchers at the National Network for Safe Communities worked with the Columbus Division of Police to review 107 homicides between January and September 2020 and identify active gangs — referred to in the report sometimes as “groups” because the researchers said there was not evidence in some cases of the organization
“We’ve seen so much gun violence in our community over the years,” said Schnekwa McNeil Parker, a longtime Newburgh anti-violence advocate and Johnston Street resident. “It just seems like it’s becoming the norm. We as citizens in our community and our leaders have got to do more.” “There’s a tremendous amount of action that happens
The program represents a “cultural shift” in the way law enforcement and the community approach intimate partner violence, said Elizabeth Culmone-Mills, an assistant district attorney who heads the Domestic Violence Unit at the DA’s office and is the operational director for the Intimate Partners Violence Intervention program. It is an approach that places the onus
Since the start of the project, severe violence has fallen consistently in Malmö. In 2020, there were only 20 shootings and 17 explosions. Of around 300 men reached by Stop Shooting, 40 are now in prison, but another 49 have joined a city program to help individuals leave gangs and start over. Experts say it’s
Dr. Paul David Smith, High School Principal (Ret.), Directory of Reconciliation, National Network for Safe Communities: “While facilitating a meeting of the local chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity in the library of the school where I was principal, I received a text that one of my students had been shot and was being rushed
Some 50 current members of the Baltimore police force have applied to join a new Group Violence Reduction Unit, formed at Mayor Brandon Scott’s direction. Here’s what I take from that: A good number of sworn officers believe a new approach to law enforcement can reduce crime, change lives and build public confidence in their