CEDAR RAPIDS — Management of Group Violence Intervention, the collaborative community gun violence reduction strategy, has transitioned over the last year, and Cedar Rapids officials say the effort continues to see success in keeping people alive and out of jail. For the last year, nonprofit Foundation 2 Crisis Services has managed the outreach work of
Davenport’s strategy to reduce gun violence is growing, including to other area cities. The Quad Cities Community Foundation awarded Family Resources $300,000 over three years to pay for a full-time staffer to work on Group Violence Intervention, an anti-violence initiative Davenport launched about eight months ago. The Group Violence Intervention, or GVI, strategy followed a
HOPEWELL, Va. (WWBT) – At a specially called meeting in Hopewell Thursday night, city leaders voted unanimously to move forward with the Operation Ceasefire program to curve a recent spike in violence in the city. This comes just days after 8-year-old P’Aris Moore was shot and killed while riding her bike with her friends outside a
The Quad Cities are joining in new efforts to turn around the crisis of gun violence. One of the new measures is one that has been used for years in other parts of the country around the same size as Davenport. The Group Violence Intervention strategy has been up and running since early 2022 in Davenport.
The streets of Wilmington were beset by bloodshed last year, with a record 39 people killed by bullets. The carnage led the mayor to decry the street “assassinations” in a handful of neighborhoods that ring the downtown area. This year, however, while gun fatalities in much larger neighbors Philadelphia and Baltimore are on pace to near or surpass previous
Less than a quarter of one percent of Davenport residents are driving roughly half of gun violence in the city, according to new statistics compiled by the National Network for Safe Communities. Using federal pandemic relief dollars, Davenport contracted with John Jay College to do an analysis of the last five years of gun crime
MINNEAPOLIS — The Office of Violence Prevention in Minneapolis, under the direction of Sasha Cotton, will soon have a new leader. “I have accepted a new position, yes,” answered Cotton. Cotton will now become the deputy director for the National Network of Safe Communities at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. “It’s one of the
On the heels of a spike in gun fire in 2020, and months after forming a closed-doors task force to address gun violence in Davenport, city officials say this summer they will start implementing a strategy that has reduced gun violence in other communities. Davenport is interviewing candidates to fill a coordinator position that will
A comprehensive plan from the city — unveiled last year as residents’ concerns over violence reached fever pitch — aims to tamp down crime while nipping its causes at the root. Credible messengers are one part of the multifaceted strategy. The crime prevention and reduction plan pinpoints numerous actions the city can take to address
The OGVP will be working with the National Network for Safe Communities which is a research center at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York. NNSC works with communities to reduce violence, minimize arrest and incarceration, and increase trust between law enforcement and the public using data and statistics for crime prevention.