FAQ
Addressing the most common questions, concerns and misconceptions about the group violence and drug market strategies.

Prison Call-In
This paper reports on a call-in conducted at a state prison by the Cincinnati Initiative to Reduce Violence and provides guidance on how an anti-violence message can be effectively delivered in this setting.

A Fresh Grip on Gangs, Gun Crimes
The Omaha World Herald reports on how Cincinnati successfully institutionalized the group violence reduction strategy.

Ceasefire Spreading Like Wildfire in California
The National Criminal Justice Association Justice Bulletin reports on the promise shown by the group violence reduction strategy as it is implemented across sites in California.

Ceasefire Showing Progress
The Monterey Herald on Salinas' dramatic reduction in gun crime and homicides following the city's implementation of the group violence strategy.

Springdale Fights Back
The Memphis Daily News on how the drug market intervention helped Springdale residents change their response to open-air drug markets.

Crossing the Line of Ceasefire: Offenders Find out Breaking Agreement Has Consequences
The Monterey Herald on how Salinas deals with those who don’t heed the Ceasefire message.

Union City Launches Youth Violence Prevention Program
Another Californian city embraces the group violence reduction strategy.

High Point Reports Fifth Successful Drug Market Closure
Police and residents of the Washington Drive neighborhood overcome historical conflict to jointly reclaim the streets.

The High Point Strategy: Its Creation, Implementation and Future
Tate Chambers, Legal Program Manager at the Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys, on how the High Point strategy has been evolving from a theory into a national movement.

Evaluation of the Drug Market Initiative in Rockford, IL
This recent study found the initiative to be "associated with a statistically significant and substantive reduction in crime, drug, and nuisance offenses in the target neighborhood."

CIRV Releases Year-2 Report
The Cincinnati Initiative to Reduce Violence reports on activities and outcomes for the second year of its implementation of the group violence strategy.

Prisoners of Parole
Law professor Jeffrey Rosen, in The New York Times Magazine, on how new deterrence approaches hold real promise to address the criminal justice system's legitimacy crisis.

Anti-Gang Scheme Cuts Violence by Nearly 50 Percent
The Times on Glasgow’s success with the group violence strategy. Click here for the Glasgow’s Community Initiative to Reduce Violence first-year report.

Annals of Crime: Don’t Shoot
The New Yorker on the Cincinnati Initiative to Reduce Violence and the work of National Network Co-Chair David Kennedy.

Drug Market Initiative in Hempstead, NY
ABC Primetime on how a neighborhood was transformed.

The Velvet Glove
The Economist on the drug market initiative in High Point, North Carolina.