News & Updates June 16, 2018

Baton Rouge officials ramp up custom home visits hoping to intervene in group violence

With the arrival of summer's notorious bloody months and the now-defunct anti-violence initiative BRAVE in the rear-view mirror, Baton Rouge's law enforcement officials are embracing a new method for violence intervention: showing up unannounced to the homes of those they believe are linked to the violence.   These home visits, coined “custom notifications” by researchers with the

News & Updates June 5, 2018

Editorial: Innovative ideas needed to combat street violence

Two years ago, York City officials responded to persistent street violence with a multi-pronged initiative modeled after a nationally renowned criminologist's work in Boston decades ago. The premise of Group Violence Intervention is relatively simple: A small number of people in any city commit most violent crimes, so police need to identify and target that group

News & Updates May 31, 2018

Kalamazoo police say focus on group violence reduces shootings

Less than half of one percent of Kalamazoo residents are involved in more than half of the city's homicides and shootings. People who disproportionately commit violent acts and suffer from them often are associated with street groups, police said. It's why the city's department of public safety is committed to a program to reduce gang violence, an