The National Network’s approach has attracted significant media attention over the years. This page features the most recent coverage of our work and a searchable archive of media about the National Network’s projects around the nation and abroad.
The National Network convenes regular conferences, working sessions and webinars to discuss and promote developments in its core areas of operation, showcase innovations, and set research and development priorities.
We Can’t End Inequality Until We Stop Urban Gun Violence
Our country is not facing a gun violence crisis. Instead, it faces four separate but related gun crises. During the ...
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Mayor de Blasio urged by community leaders to increase anti-violence funding amid shooting surge in northern Brooklyn
Dozens of Brooklyn community leaders called on Mayor de Blasio to increase funding for anti-violence and shooting prevention efforts after ...
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NNSC Conference Celebrates 10 Years of Creating Change in Communities
The National Network for Safe Communities (NNSC), which celebrates its 10- year anniversary this year, held its biennial conference on June ...
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Researcher lays out ways to stop urban violence
Author and Harvard researcher Thomas Abt joins Morning Joe to discuss how to reduce urban violence, which he outlines in ...
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NYPD failed to find one incident of biased policing in five years
The NYPD received 2,495 reports of biased policing since it began investigating allegations from the public five years ago — ...
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Why Tackling Urban Violence Should Be First on America’s Domestic Agenda
“Agree or disagree with him, but by all means read him.” That’s The New Yorker writer Jelani Cobb’s take on Thomas ...
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Don’t Blame Me Policing
At a time when the murder rate of peer cities nationwide is significantly declining, you can make the case that, ...
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Is Jackie Rohr Based On A Real Person? Kevin Bacon’s ‘City On A Hill’ Character Is A Super Corrupt Cop
Showtime's City on a Hill,takes place during the Boston Miracle of the early 1990s — a police effort that infiltrated the ...
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Friday Editorial: Melissa Nelson has done impressive work as state attorney
When Melissa Nelson first appeared before the Times-Union Editorial Board, she was a first-time candidate for public office who was ...
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Raytown mom called cops on ex, was killed hours later. Did police do enough to help?
One expert in intimate partner violence suggests police could have stopped Jack that night had they focused on him, but ...
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Cops Across The US Have Been Exposed Posting Racist And Violent Things On Facebook. Here’s The Proof.
Local law enforcement departments across the country have grappled with officers’ use of social media, often struggling to create and ...
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