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• Report: Cities Are Building Community Safety Departments To Prevent Violence, Respond To Crises And Improve Public Safety.
• Safer Cities Interview With Minneapolis’s Behavioral Crisis Response Team
• Counties Launching Crisis Stabilization Centers To Connect People In Mental Health Crises To Treatment Instead Of Jails And Emergency Rooms.

• Report: Mobile Crisis Response Teams Have Expanded To Around One Hundred U.S. Cities, Increasingly Viewed As “A Fourth And Equal Wing Of 911 Response.”
• Safer Cities Interview With New Orleans’ Office Of Violence Prevention.
• More Cities Integrating Mental Health Response Into 911 Emergency Dispatch.

• Report: Albuquerque Earns Top-10 Violence Prevention Readiness Score In National Index, With Report Highlighting Community Safety Department’s Role In Enhancing Public Safety.
• Safer Cities Interview With Two Civilian Traffic Enforcement Teams.
• Cities Expanding Transit Ambassador Teams To Enhance Public Safety.

• Study: Austin Neighborhoods With Community Violence Intervention Programs Experienced Steeper Declines In Violent Crime.
• Safer Cities Interview With Austin’s Expanded Mobile Crisis Outreach Team.
• Sobering Centers Expanding Access To Treatment While Reducing Reliance On Jails And ERs.

For nearly five years, Safer Cities has tracked the programs, research, and public opinion shaping the future of public safety. Along the way, we’ve built a growing library of reporting on the approaches communities are implementing—from mobile crisis response teams and crisis stabilization centers to violence intervention programs, safety ambassadors, clean teams, and other emerging public safety strategies.

That work has grown into something larger than a newsletter: a curated knowledge base of programs, independent evaluations, academic research, public opinion data, and practical examples from communities across the country.

That’s why we built: Safer Cities IQ.