Gun violence is at an all-time high in Louisville. Not even halfway through November, we’ve had 143 homicides — 22 percent more than the previous annual record set in 2017. More than 50 people a month are getting hit by non-fatal gunfire — double the gun violence in a typical year.
“Effective violence prevention looks a lot like contact tracing,” said Kennedy, the director of John Jay College’s National Network for Safe Communities. “Between law enforcement and community insight, it’s very often possible to understand who’s driving things, who’s at high risk. What are we going to do with this particular situation to keep it from
“We just want the violence to stop,” Gwynn said. “It’s such a cliche, but it’s true. It’s babies killing babies. They need to know that they can’t pull back that bullet.”
A new initiative to tackle the record levels of violence within the city will identify some of the key players and bring them together in a re-imagined way of freezing the gunfire. The National Network for Safe Communities has implemented its Group Violence Intervention initiative in cities across the country with many of them seeing reductions in
“My office is very blunt about this: Violence is visited with massive disproportion on people and communities of color in the United States,” Kennedy said during his address Friday as a keynote speaker at The Gazette’s Iowa Ideas virtual conference. “Black men are about 6 percent of the nation and they are about 15 percent
By focusing on what survivors should or shouldn’t do, we’re blaming them for their own abuse and placing the onus for justice on them. There’s a better way. By Rachel Teicher, director of Intimate Partner Violence Intervention programs at the National Network for Safe Communities
Violencia estatal, legitimidad y el camino hacia la verdadera seguridad pública
This is the second in a series of stories on a proven strategy deployed in communities across the globe to reduce violence and save substantial numbers of community members from prison, death and grievous loss of loved ones. As this strategy had a beginning in the U.S. Virgin Islands in 2016, we offer these stories
Modeled after the focused deterrence program used in such major cities as Philadelphia, Boston, and Indianapolis, Chester Partnership for Safe Neighborhoods (CPSN) will target the small percentage of Chester’s population that commits the majority of its violent crime. Through regular call-in meetings, prosecutors from Stollsteimer’s office will meet with young people in the city deemed
As the United States wraps up the recently proclaimed “National Gun Violence Prevention Week,” and marks the 14th National Day of Remembrance for Murder Victims with vigils in the Virgin Islands and across the country, the Source launches a series on a proven strategy deployed in communities across the globe to reduce such violence and