GVTF members and associates – A must see regarding current public and private service collaboration while combating gang violence.

Video describing the current success of the Ceasefire Program in Cincinnati OH, is now available for viewing through the following web link:

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2009/06/primary-sources-calling-in-crime.html

Ceasefire Program Description: (source: NewYorker – same webpage)

June 15, 2009

Primary Sources: Calling In Crime

In the spring of 2007, David Kennedy, a professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, brought Ceasefire, his strategy for fighting inner-city-youth violence, to Cincinnati. The centerpiece of Ceasefire is a dramatic public forum known as a “call-in,” in which the cops, standing with morally influential leaders from the community, confront offenders with their crimes, and tell them they must stop now. Though Kennedy is the architect of Ceasefire, the people who employ it are the members of the Cincinnati Initiative to Reduce Violence (C.I.R.V.), a team made up of cops, social workers, and ex-cons. I wrote about Kennedy and his efforts in Cincinnati in this week’s issue. (Subscribers can view the entire article online.)

Tom Peavey

Policy Manager

Office of Youth Violence Prevention

449 NE Emerson (Interdepartmental mail, Bldg. 200)

Portland, Oregon 97211

(503) 823-4180 Office

(503) 823-3004FAX

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