Events

PAST EVENTS

February 8, 2012
Doing More With Less: The Role of Strategic Law Enforcement in the Group Violence Reduction Strategy
As recession-hit police departments around the country struggle to remain effective despite reduced funding, the National Network's Group Violence Reduction Strategy (GVRS) offers a proven solution for increasing the impact of law enforcement actions on citywide violence without the need for additional resources. This webinar presentation, by National Network Co-Chair David Kennedy, demonstrates how GVRS is designed to meet the very challenges most police departments currently face and how they can keep the strategy's promise of swift and meaningful responses to violence. Specifically, it discusses: the key operational requirements of GVRS for law enforcement agencies and executives to implement the strategy successfully; examples of how of how traditional legal and enforcement tools can be applied in unusual and resource-neutral ways; and How GVRS' success relies on commitment, management and accountability, not resources.

Click here for the webinar PowerPoint or view a recording of the webinar by clicking on the title above.

January 11-12, 2012 
Police Legitimacy and Racial Reconciliation (by invitation)
Hosted by the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) in Washginton, DC, day one of this meeting introduced police chiefs and community leaders from leading U.S. cities to the National Network's "Police Legitimacy and Racial Reconciliation" framework. Leadership Group representatives met on the second day of the conference to set a working agenda for advancing this framework in their cities.

September 27-28, 2011
Advancing Community Moral Engagement (by invitation)
Leadershiph Group representatives met to set a working agenda for designing and advancing the Community Moral Engagement/Voice framework for the group violence reduction strategy.

July 12-14, 2011
Peer Exchange II -- High Point, North Carolina (by invitation)
The High Point Police Department and High Point Community Against Violence (HP-CAV) hosted the National Network's second Peer Exchange, welcoming twenty-eight law enforcement, community and research partners from eight National Network Leadership Group cities. The exchange showcased High Point's innovative applications of the National Network Strategies to a variety of violent crimes and drug market problems including its groundbreaking work around law enforcement institutionalization, community moral engagement, and racial reconciliation between law enforcement and affected communities.

June 20, 2011
Webinar Series: Employing Streetworkers to Address Group Violence
The Institute of the Study & Practice of Nonviolence in Providence is a national pioneer in training and employing professional street outreach workers to address and prevent violence. It has also forged a highly effective partnership with the Providence Police Department that the National Network for Safe Communities believes can serve as a model for other jurisdictions seeking to utilize street outreach workers as part of implementing the group violence reduction strategy.

The Institute of the Study & Practice of Nonviolence in Providence is a national pioneer in training and employing professional street outreach workers to address and prevent violence. It has also forged a highly effective partnership with the Providence Police Department that the National Network for Safe Communities believes can serve as a model for other jurisdictions seeking to utilize street outreach workers as part of implementing the group violence reduction strategy.

In this webinar, the Institute's Executive Director Teny Gross and Streetworker Program Manager Ajay Benton discussed the following key issues:

  • Principles and Practice of Nonviolence
  • Training
  • Hiring & Firing
  • Partnering With Police, Schools, and Hospitals
  • Selecting Target Clients
  • Managing Risks
  • Managing Public Relations
  • Measuring Success

To download the webinar's PowerPoint click here or view the whole webinar by clicking on the title above.

May 23, 2011
Webinar Series: Using Social Network Analysis in Crime Prevention
Social network analysis— the scientific tool behind social media like Facebook and Twitter—is used widely in the private sector to understand markets and organizations and in the health sector to understand the spread of disease. It can be used just as effectively to devise new ways to reduce violent crime. National Network Leadership Group jurisdictions Chicago and Cincinnati have been at the forefront of applying social network analysis in crime prevention. In this webinar, Andrew Papachristos, Ph.D., a national expert and the research partner of the Chicago Police Department, and Captain Daniel Gerard of the Cincinnati Police Department demonstrate how social network analysis is applied in the context of the National Network's group violence reduction strategy.

Key issues addressed include:

• Mapping of group, gang and faction structures and relationships
• Designing surgically precise enforcement actions
• Expanding knowledge of group membership using commonly available administrative data
• Identifying the most influential group members for taking antiviolence messages back to affiliates

To download the webinar's PowerPoint, click here or view a recording of the webinar by clicking on the title above.

May 16-17, 2011
Peer Exchange I-- Providence, Rhode Island (by invitation)
Street Outreach and Police Partnership-Building

February 15-17, 2011
Second Leadership Group Meeting (by invitation)

January 10-12, 2011
Working Session: Community Moral Engagement (by invitation)

November 22, 2010
Webinar Series: Communicating with Offenders—Innovative Notification Strategies *
This webinar focuses on innovative techniques for communicating key messages to offenders, potential offenders and affected communities as part of the National Network's group violence reduction and drug market strategies.

Key issues addressed include:

  • Best practices in the "classic" call-in format
  • Voluntary call-ins for gang members
  • Home visits with impact players
  • Custom legal assessments
  • Prison call-ins
  • The use of "influentials" in both strategies
  • Emphasizing legitimacy in the call-in
  • Use of social network analysis

To download the webinar's PowerPoint, click here or view a recording of the webinar by clicking on the title above.

October 12-14, 2010
Working Session: Law Enforcement (by invitation)

September 20, 2010
Webinar Series: Engaging the Community Moral Voice
The presentation, by National Network Co-Chair David Kennedy and experienced National Network practitioners, focused on identifying and engaging the community's moral voice as part of the National Network's group violence reduction and drug market strategies.

Key issues addressed include:

  • Community norms and narratives and how to they affect crime and crime control
  • Race, truth-telling, and legitimacy and why these matter
  • Promoting informal social control in the community
  • The role of the community's moral voice in strategy implementation

To download this webinar's PowerPoint, click here.

July 19-21, 2010
First Leadership Group Meeting: Executive Session (by invitation)

April 26, 2010
Occasional Series Symposium (open to public)
Beyond Reentry? The Council of Thought and Action and its Role in the Drug Market Intervention Strategy of Hempstead, NY

March 8-9, 2010
Working Session: Research (by invitation)

December 2-3, 2010
First Annual Conference (open to public) Bernard Melekian, Director of the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS), delivered the keynote address to the conference. To view a selection of conference sessions and other speeches, click here.

December 1, 2010
Executive Board Meeting

October 13-14, 2009
Working Session: Project Management (by invitation).

October 13, 2009
Managing Community Interventions
An introduction to the work of the National Network for Safe Communities by David Kennedy, with project managers from leading National Network jurisdictions around the country reporting on their progress to date in implementing the group violence and overt drug market strategies in their states and cities.

March 24, 2009
Putting the Action in Action Research
Dr. Robin Engel and Jessica Dunham of the University of Cincinnati and Captain Daniel Gerard of the Cincinnati Police Department presented on a unique police-researchers partnership that won the CPD the 2009 International Association of Chiefs of Police West Award for Excellence in Criminal Investigations.