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