John Jay College - The Center on Crime Prevention and Control

In a bold expression of support for one of the National Network for Safe Communities' founding principles – the need to openly recognize and address historic and ongoing racial tensions between communities of color and police – Chicago Superintendent Garry McCarthy, in an interview with WBEZ 91.5, delivered his vision for the future of policing in Chicago and elsewhere.

The New Yorker (August 16)
Can William Bratton Curb Gang Violence in Britain?

Chicago Tribune (August 15)
Police Supt. McCarthy: Legacy of Racism Plagues Today's Police Officers

PressTV (August 14)
Activists Slam Attack on Civil Liberties

Huffington Post (August 13)
Human Rights Groups Uneasy About Cameron's Riot Crackdown

Huffington Post (August 13)
Rights Groups Uneasy over Cameron's Riot Crackdown

The Herald Scotland (August 12)
Strathyclyde Shows the Way Ahead after UK Riots

Daily Record (August 11)
UK Riots: Cameron Praises Glasgow's CIRV for Tackling Destructive Gang Culture

Newsmax.com (August 11)
Cameron: Looking to Boston for Gang-Fighting Advice

CBS Chicago (August 11)
Bereaved Parents Take Their Anti-Violence Message To Gang Members

Daily Mirror (August 11)
UK Riots: Cameron Turns Spotlight on Tackling Gang Culture

ABC Channel 7 (August 9)
Gang Squeeze: Chicago Presses Ahead With Violence Reduction Strategy

Ocala.com (July 7)
OPD Program Earns Excellence Award

NewarkPatch (June30)
Former, Current Gang Members, Activists Talk Ceasefire

Chicago Sun-Times (June 24)
Gang Round-Up is a Policy that Works

WestWard Patch (June 16)
Newark Police to Launch Ceasefire Strategy to Combat Gang Violence

Daily News Los Angeles (June 1)
Gangs Get Warning: Stop the Violence

TwinCities.com (April 27)
St. Paul Police Try New Tack to Thwart Gang Initiation

The Star-Ledger (March 11)
Newark Officials, Leaders to Meet with Violent Groups to Offer them Jobs in Effort to Reduce Crime

Chicago Sun-Times (February 14)
Police Supt. Weis: Secret Gang Meeting Reduced Murders

ABC 7 (February 13)
Chicago Police Fight Crime in New Ways

Chicago Tribune (February 13)
Weis: Crackdown Brings 40 Percent Homicide Drop

CBS Chicago.com (February 13)
Did Weis' Controversial Gang Meeting Work?

The Roanoke Times (February 9)
Roanoke to Import Crime-Cutting Program

NJ.com (January 28)
Gangs have presence in 254 towns, in every county in N.J., survey shows

Chicago Sun-Times (January 28)
Murderers, Victims Share Social Ties

Seattle Weekly (January 5)
SPD's Drug Market Initiative to Target Columbia City

The American Prospect (January/February)
On the Block

2010

Winston-Salem Journal (December 21)
Winston-Salem Sees 13% Drop in Violent Crime

Chicago Crusader (November 1)
One Murder = 60 Arrests

Chicago Sun-Times (October 29)
Cops Make Good on Threat to Gang-Bangers

Examiner.com (October 27)
Chicago Police Superintendent Keeps His Word

The High Point Enterprise (October 26)
Jobs Program For Felons Makes Inroads

Chicago Tribune (October 26)
Police Arrests Dozens of Gang Members

ABC Chicago (October 26)
Police: New Gang Strategy Starting to Work

NBC Chicago (October 26)
More Than 60 Nabbed in Crackdown

Huffington Post (October 26)
Chicago Gang Violence: Police Chief Follows Through on Controversial Strategy

Chicago Tribune (October 25)
Chicago Police Make Good on Gang Warning

Davidson County Dispatch (September 17)
Project Safe Neighborhood Comes to County Amid Great Anticipation

Chicago Tribune (September 7)
Crushing Gang Violence in Chicago

New York Times (September 4)
Good Intent Gone Awry After Pair of Meetings

Chicago Sun Times (September 3)
Gang Member Tells Others: "Put the Guns Down"

Chicago Tribune (September 3)
Facing Down the Gang Leaders

CBS2 Chicago (September 2)
Community Residents Comment On Gang Meeting

Chicago Breaking News Center (September 1)
Fitzgerald Mum About Next Blago Trial: 'I won't touch it'

Chicago Tribune (September 1)
Quinn Disagrees with Weis' Gang Meeting

MyFoxchicago.com (August 30; Updated September 2)
Secret Police-Gang Meeting Won't Work, Activist Says

Chicago Sun-Times (August 29)
Cops to Gangs: Stop the Killings – or Else

The Herald-Dispatch (August 6)
New Tool Being Used in Drug Battle

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (July 27)
Former Steelers Running Back Gives Boost to Anti-Gang Program

The Crime Report (July 21)
One Vision One Life

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (July 14)
Pittsburgh Gang Members Attend 'Call-In'

Pittsburg Post-Gazette (July 11)
City Organizes Assault on Violence

The Monterey Herald (July 8)
Ceasefire Showing Progress

Ventura County Reporter Online (July 1)
New Program Succeeds in Reducing Gang Violence in Oxnard

The Providence Journal (June 30)
New Pilot Program to Offer Teens a Place to Go at Night

Omaha World-Herald (June 27)
A Fresh Grip on Gangs, Gun Crimes

Memphis Daily News (June 21)
Springdale Fights Back

Washington Post (June 17)
Legal System Forces Face-to-Face Meetings with Prince George County's Most Violent Criminals

NewarkPatch (June 16)
Newark Police to Launch Ceasefire Strategy to Combat Gang Violence

Montery County Herald (May 25)
Ceasefire's California Challenge

The Monetary Herald (May 15)
Crossing the Line of Ceasefire: Offenders Find out Breaking Agreement Has Consequences

Marin Independent Journal (May 15)
Baltimore Violent Crime Drops as Cops Narrow Focus

News 14 Carolina (May 12)
High Point Police Tells Criminals to Straighten Out

The Monterey Herald (April 23)
Operation Knockout: Gang Raid Targets Nuestra Familia in Salinas

Commercial Appeal, Memphis, Tennessee (April 20)
Memphis Police Shutter Drug House, Announce Indictments of 51

The Oakland Tribune (April 13)
Union City Launches Youth Violence Prevention Program

The Monterey Herald (April 1)
Police Raid on Salinas Gang Ends in Three Arrests

The Monterey Herald (March 26)
Police Arrest Salinas Gang Members in Sweep After Boy's Death

WREG CBS3 Memphis, TN (March 4)
Drug Market Initiative

The High Point Enterprise (n.d)
Drug Initiative Moves: High Point Police Target Washington Drive Corridor

The High Point Enterprise (n.d.)
Washington Drive Residents Welcome Anti-Crime Initiative

The High Point Enterprise (n.d.)
Our View: Anti-Crime-Effort Commences

Seattle Central District News (January 29)
Drug Market Initiative Shows Concrete Progress

The Guardian UK (January 21)
Anti-Social Behavior Orders (Asbos) for Gangs Don't Work. This Talking Cure Just Might

Central Florida News 13 (January 21)
Are Drug Dealers Keeping Their Promise for a Second Chance?

Daily News Los Angeles (January 20)
Prison Problems

My EyeWitness News.com (January 13)
Drug Market Intervention Targets North Memphis Neighborhood

MyFoxMemphis.com (January 13)
Drug Intervention Program Offers Second Chance

The Commercial Appeal (January 13)
Anti-drug program Arrests 50 in North Memphis; 5 Get Special Second Chance

WMCTV.com (January 13)
Law Enforcement, City Leaders Look to Stamp out Open-Air Drug Markets

News 14 Carolina (January 11)
Police Look to Neighbors to Fight Washington Drive Crime

Providence.com (January 10)
Police, Residents Work to Lower Crime at Providence's Troubled Chad Brown Project

2009

Christian Science Monitor (December 23)
More Guns Equal More Crime? Not in 2009, FBI Crime Report Shows

Tampabay.com (December 21)
Ocala Tries to Save a Neighborhood by Cutting Deals with Drug Dealers

Monterey Herald (December 6)
Conference Offers Hope for Salinas

The Crime Report (December 3)
Cops and Communites

Providence Journal (November 17)
Violence expert says communal effort can cut crime

News.Scotsman.com (November 1)
Hitting Violent Street Gangs Where it Hurts

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (October 29)
Anti-Gang Initiative Coming Together After 13-Month Wait

The Economist (October 22)
The Velvet Glove

Prospect (October 21)
How to Really Hug a Hoodie

NPR (September 16)
Cincinnati Police Partner with Academics

Washington Post (September 11)
U.S. Sentencing Commission Urged to Give Judges More Flexibility

Time (September 2)
Street Crime: Too Often Blamed on Gangs, Experts Say

Seattle Central District News (August 27)
23rd & Union Neighbors Agree: DMI Making a Difference

Lancaster.com (August 23)
Violent Crime Reduction Initiative

Lancaster.com (August 23)
In High Point, N.C., They Took a Chance

Seattlepi.com (August 12)
Man Initially Given Deal in Crack Case charged Tuesday

SPD Blotter – Seattle Police News and Events (August 8)
New Strategy Aims to Reduce Street Drug Dealing

King5.com (August 7)
Seattle Drug Dealers Given One Shot to Clean Up

Seattle Times (August 7)
Police Ultimatum to Drug Dealers: Quit, or Go to Prison

Seattlepi.com (August 7)
Prosecutor to Suspected Drug Dealers: Stop Selling and We'll Let You Walk Away

DigTriad.com (August 6)
High Point's Answer to Crime Serves as National Model

The Tennessean (August 1)
Police Intervention Tames East Nashville's Mean Streets

The Guardian (July 29)
US Academic David Kennedy on Crime and Group Punishment

Cincinnati.com (July 17)
Cincinnati Police Fight Crime with Computers

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (July 6)
Pittsburgh's Anti-Violence Program Ready to Start

Seattle Channel (July 2)
Youth Violence Prevention

Seattle Post Globe (June 29)
Crime Expert to City Council: A Community "Intervention" is Key to Reducing Violence

Seattle Central District News (June 26)
New Program Offers Choice to Drug Dealers: Help vs. Jail

Seattle Times (June 26)
Gangs: Experts Teach Seattle a Consistent Approach

Seattle Time (June 25)
Innovators visit Seattle to Describe Ways that Work to Cut Gang Violence

New Yorker (June 22)
Don't Shoot

Progressive Policy Institute (June 19)
Can't-Miss Offer For Policy Revolutionaries: Hang Out With PPI, Get Featured In The New Yorker

The Providence Journal (June 4)
Esserman Gives Two Briefings in D.C.

Daily Times – Salisbuy, MD (May 31)
Berlin Targets Drug Dealers

The Dispatch (May 29)
Prosecutor Declares War On Open Air Drug Markets

The Daily Times (May 28)
Drug Dealers Confronted by their Berlin Neighbors

The Providence Journal (May 22)
Virginia Police View Success of Clean-Up of Providence Neighborhood

Christian Science Monitor (April 23)
People Making a Difference: Teny Gross

DC Public Safety (Radio Show - March 12)
Cincinnati Initiative to Reduce Violence

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (March 7)
County Gets $3.2 Million for Law Enforcement

WUWM Milwaukee Public Radio (March 3)
Community Justice: Interview with John Jay College President Jeremy Travis

NPR (February 2009)
Expert Says Economic Woes May Spur Crime Rate

Newsweek (Febrauary 9)
Always on My Mind

Dayton Daily News (February 1)
Dayton Hopes to Learn from Cincinnati Gang Bust

New York Times (January 18)
Street Known for Drug Crime is Getting Clean

Newsday.com (January 14)
Progress in Hempstead: Drug Crime Dropped on Terrace Avenue

Newsday.com (January 14)
DA Rice Touts Efforts to Clean Up Drugs in Nassau

Lancaster Online (January 13)
Communities Benefit When Dealers Get Deal

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (January 4)
Pittsburgh Homicides Jump 28% as other Cities See Decline

2008
CUNY's Salute to Scholars (Winter 2008)
Novel Drug Crackdown is Saving Cities

USA Today (December 22)
Crime Increases in Some Areas as Economy Fails

Sunday Times, UK (December 21)
The War on Knife Thugs Starts in the Womb

British Medical Journal (December 13)
An Unusual Day in Court

BBC World News America (December 12)
Can US Crime Miracle help Glasgow?

NPR (November 20)
Expert Says Economic Woes May Spur Crime Rate

Pittsburgh City Paper (October 15-22)
Practicing What He Preaches

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (October 12)
City's Anti-Crime Plan Has Mixed Record

New York Times (October 9)
Keeping Wary Eye on Crime as Economy Sinks

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (September 30)
City Recruits Churches for Anti-Crime Effort

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (September 26)
Councilman Calls for Anti-Violence Program

ABC Primetime (August 20)
New Program Reforms Drug-Torn Neighborhood

The Wall Street Journal (July 10)
Communities Pay for High Prison Rate

Providence City News (July 10)
Police & Community Celebrate Successful Lockwood Crime Fighting Initiative With Cookout

NPR (June 28)
Cops Target L.A. Gangs' Shot Callers

New York Magainze (June 1)
Dog Days Debate. Do recent headlines point to a high-crime summer?

Adelaide Now
Rann's $11m teen crime fight

NPR (May 8)
Stop Snitchin' Movement Confounding Criminal Justice

The Wall Street Journal (May 6)
Murder Spike Poses Quandary

Toronto Star (April 27)
A Look Beyond the Hand Gun Ban

Newsweek (April 14)
The Crime Conundrum

University of Cincinnati Magazine (April 1)
Killer Data

NPR (March 23)
Anti-Drug Program Tackles Open-Air Markets

Liverpool Echo (Feburary 18)
Matrix Police Issue Warning to Criminals

Yale Alumni Magazine (January/February)
Man on the Street: Profile of Elijah Anderson

New York Times (January 21)
Tough But Smart on Drugs

The Providence Journal (January 7)
Calm Comes to Lockwood Neighborhood

2007
Rolling Stone Magazine (December 13)
How We Lost the War on Drugs

New York Times (November 23)
City Homicides Still Dropping, To Under 500

New York Times (September 12)
Biggest Test for Newark's New Badge

USA Today (August 31)
Criminals Target Each Other, Trend Shows

Governing Magazine (August 1)
Bratton's Brigade

Jacksonville (June 25)
Felons Are Victims, Too, She Discovers

Financial Times (April 17)
Campus Gunman Kills 33 at Rural University

University of Cincinatti (April 4)
UC Experts Set to Help City Fight Rising Homicide Problem

The Atlantic (April 1)
The Story of a Snitch

The Providence Journal (March 10)
Closing Crack Highway

Committee on the Judiciary (February 15)
Making Communities Safer: Youth Violence and Gang Interventions That Work (Prepared Testimony)

City Beat (February 7)
Finally Ready for a Ceasefire

Nation's Cities Weekly (January 29)
13 Cities in California Share Gang Violence Prevention Strategies

Jacksonville (January 18)
Lure of the Game

Seattle Post-Intelligencer (January 2)
Homicides on Rise in Seattle

2006
MassINC (Winter 2006)
Crime and Puzzlement

Sheriff (November/December)
The Violence Must Stop

policemag.com (December 14)
Taking Back the Neighborhood

The Wall Street Journal (September 27)
Novel Police Tactics Put Drug Markets Out of Business

New York Times (August 22)
Attention Oakland Troublemakers: The Police Are Keeping a Close Eye on You

Washington Post (August 13)
The Neighborhood War Zone

USA Today (July 27)
Some Cities see Resurgent Wave of Street Crime

Jacksonville (June 22)
Murder Rate: A Fresh Approach

Jacksonville (June 17)
Legal Expert: Prevention Key to Controlling Homicides

Fox 61 WTIC-TV Connecticut (June 16)
Hartford Echoes Crime Trend

MSNBC.COM (June 16)
Murder Up in Small Cities

Boston.com (June 16)
Nationwide Resurgence of Gang Activity Troubling to Authorities

Syracuse.com (June 16)
Drug Crime Goes Country

STLtoday.com (June 12)
FBI: Violent-Crime Surge is Worst in Midwest

City Journal (Summer 2006)
New York Cops: Still the Finest

recordonline.com – Times Herald-Record (April 26)
Prisoners Steer Kids Away

NorthJersey.com (April 10)
Craving Fame Leads to Shame

New York Times (March 26)
Counting Heads Along the Thin Blue Line

The Jersey Journal (March 23)
Out of Harm's Way

The Detroit News (February 9)
Project Shows How to Muzzle Detroit's Shootings

Social Inclusion Initiative (Australia) (February 1)
Innovations in Juvenile Justice

Mother Jones (January/February)
Straight Outta Boston

The Boston Globe (January 28)
Boston's Armistice

New York Times (January 26)
Trashy or Not, a Drug Peril Creeps Closer

NJ.com Star Ledger (January 4)
State's Inner Cities See Surge in Killings

2005
John Jay Magazine (November 1)
David Kennedy's Unconventional Approaches to Crime and Gang Violence Get Results

NPR (August 12)
Minister Works to Revive Boston Miracle

courant.com (July 3)
City in a Danger Zone

Reason (May 1)
Straight Shooting on Gun Control

Pittsburgh Tribune Review (April 29)
Federal Agents, Prosecutors Targeting Guns

NPR (March 25)
Rochester Targets Crime with Community Policing

Rochester Democrat & Chronicle.com (March 14)
City Homicides Drop 39%

C-Span Washington Journal (March 14)
Combating Gang Violence

NPR (March 14)
Justice Under the Gun

Washington Dateline (March 4)
First Lady Fights Gangs

The Enquirer Cincinnati.Com (March 3)
Witness Killings Spread Nationally

McClatchy Newspapers (March 2)
Law enforcers say Bush Budget Cuts Would Hamper Anti-Gang Efforts

Law Enforcement News (March 1)
Calling a Ceasefire -- Sending Gangs the Message: Change, or Else

New York Times (February 28)
Rochester Journal / Taking the Streets Back from Gangs, One Merciless Step at a Time

C-SPAN (February 7)
Combating Gang Violence

2004
Baltimore Sun (November 23)
For a Safer City

Los Angeles Times (April 18)
Innovative Program Targets Rochester's High Murder Rate

SouthCoast.Today.com (March 7)
Ending Senseless Tragedy

2003
Rochester Democrat & Chronicle (October 23)
Gang Crippled; Residents Relieved

2002
Governing Magazine (June 1)
Murder Mystery

1999
Time (August 9)
Squeezing Out the Bad Guys

1997
U.S. News & World Report (December 29)
Silver Bullets: 16 Smart Ideas to Fix the World

Christian Science Monitor (December 5)
Kentucky Shooting Spree is Exception Amid Safer Schools

Christian Science Monitor (December 3)
School Board Overreacted to Gun Incident

Washington Post (October 23)
Boston's Approach to Juvenile Crime Encircles Youths, Reduces Slayings

NPR (February 28)
The Brady Bill

Law Enforcement News / John Jay College (January 15)
Youth Gun Deaths in Boston: Little More Than a Hill of Beans

1996
New York Times (November 21)
In Boston, Nothing is Something

New York Times (July 8)
Federal Program Will Track Sales of Guns to Youths

Law Enforcement News / John Jay College (January 15)
Youth Gun Deaths in Boston: Little More Than a Hill of Beans