News & Updates May 30, 2018

National researchers meet with Baton Rouge leaders in partnership addressing violence

Baton Rouge law enforcement, community and human services leaders met Wednesday with academics from the National Network for Safe Communities, beginning a partnership aimed at decreasing youth gang violence and domestic violence in the capital city.  Representatives from the New York-based John Jay College of Criminal Justice shared their violence intervention framework, hoping to jump-start the

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May 30, 2018

National researchers meet with Baton Rouge leaders in partnership addressing violence

Baton Rouge law enforcement, community and human services leaders met Wednesday with academics from the National Network for Safe Communities, beginning a partnership aimed at…

April 10, 2018

Ulster County launches first-in-NY effort to reduce domestic violence by intimate partners

The National Network for Safe Communities’ Intimate Partner Violence Intervention (IPVI) was introduced during a press conference Tuesday afternoon at City Hall. Ulster County District…

News & Updates April 10, 2018

Ulster County launches first-in-NY effort to reduce domestic violence by intimate partners

The National Network for Safe Communities’ Intimate Partner Violence Intervention (IPVI) was introduced during a press conference Tuesday afternoon at City Hall. Ulster County District Attorney Holley Carnright, flanked by cardboard silhouettes representing 11 local women killed by their partners, said the initiative uses statistical analysis and data from different agencies to identify people who might

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April 9, 2018

Domestic abusers: Dangerous for women — and lethal for cops

One local police department has spent the past six years pioneering a strategy that can help identify domestic violence…

News & Updates April 9, 2018

Domestic abusers: Dangerous for women — and lethal for cops

One local police department has spent the past six years pioneering a strategy that can help identify domestic violence abusers. High Point, N.C., had a problem. From 2004 to 2008, one-third of the city’s murders were related to intimate partner violence, well above both the state and national averages, according to former police chief Jim Fealy. So

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November 1, 2017

A Better Way to Deal With Intimate Partner Violence

In this op-ed for Governing Magazine, IPVI Director Rachel Teicher explains why victims of intimate partner and domestic violence don’t trust the criminal justice system…

News & Updates November 1, 2017

A Better Way to Deal With Intimate Partner Violence

In this op-ed for Governing Magazine, IPVI Director Rachel Teicher explains why victims of intimate partner and domestic violence don't trust the criminal justice system, and outlines how procedural justice can improve victim perceptions of law enforcement. “This trust could provide the foundation for a new vision of public safety: safer communities that are empowered by

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News & Updates September 21, 2017

States move to restrict domestic abusers from carrying guns

Michael Siegel, a professor of community health sciences at the Boston University School of Public Health, published a study this week showing that states that require people with restraining orders to relinquish the firearms they already own have a 14 percent lower rate of intimate-partner gun-related homicides than states that don’t.

September 21, 2017

States move to restrict domestic abusers from carrying guns

Michael Siegel, a professor of community health sciences at the Boston University School of Public Health, published a study this week showing that states that…