Oakland, considered for many years to be among the most dangerous cities in America, has cut its annual shootings and homicides nearly in half since 2012. Now, city leaders and activists from around the country are traveling to Oakland to learn from this remarkable success. Oakland gives us reason to hope that reducing gun violence
The Birmingham Police Department was holding successful listening sessions, but wanted to engage community members with lower levels of trust in police…
Throughout 2018, the Gary Police Department began using new messaging to community members to reinforce connections between its police-community trust-building efforts and violence reduction…
As part of its youth intervention, the Fort Worth Police Department hosted a peer exchange on a training curriculum developed by its procedural…
The Stockton Police Department in California has piloted a community input process for new departmental policy. On August 3, 2017, the department convened its Community Advisory Board to discuss the department’s prospective use of unmanned aerial systems, commonly known as drones.
The Pittsburgh Bureau of Police has made it a priority to improve service to immigrant and refugee communities. In July 2018, they held a…
Minneapolis Police Department Community Resource Officers created the “Oshki-ikwewag Mino-Bimaadizii” mentoring program, which translates in the Ojibwe language to “Young women leading a good…
