Police Leadership Backs Civilian Crisis Response Programs: Police in three major cities express support for robust expansion of unarmed crisis response.
As opioid overdose deaths reached record highs last year, billions of dollars of opioid lawsuit settlement dollars began flowing to state and local governments. Here’s a look at how four places are spending the money.
This edition of Safer Cities focuses on how community violence intervention investments played out in three different cities—Baltimore, Detroit, and Orlando. Each of these programs leverage the fact that gun violence often spreads through cycles of retaliation between groups of people within the same social network. And they all rely on trained community experts to intervene in conflicts—especially within these social networks—to prevent violence before it happens.