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KSDK St. Louis: The Save Lives Now! council developing plan to reduce violent crime (October 10, 2024)

Newsweek: Tackling Crime Requires Local, Data-Driven Solutions | Opinion (September 9, 2024)

Vox: This book is changing how cities fight violence (September 5, 2024) 

Ralph Nader Radio Hour: Homicide: Success on the Street (Aug 10, 2024)

The New York Times: A Plummeting Murder Rate Stuns Boston. But Can It Survive the Summer? (June 27, 2024)

First Alert 4: Local leaders attend first meeting of Save Lives Now! Advisory Council (May 23, 2024)

Spectrum News: Plan to cut homicides, non-fatal shootings in St. Louis region may not be fully underway until 2025 (May 23, 2024). 

KSDK St. Louis: Here's how the first regional initiative in the St. Louis area aims to reduce shootings, homicides by 20% in three years (May 23, 2024)

Stand Together: Homicide rates are too high in America. Here’s what we can do. (May 22, 2024)

St. Louis Today: Opinion: St. Louis city and county are collaborating against crime (April 25, 2024)

St. Louis Today: Opinion: Anti-crime initiative uses proven tactics to save lives (April 7, 2024)

The Boston Globe: Boston homicide numbers down sharply in first quarter of 2024 compared to same period last year (April 3, 2024)

CommonWealth Beacon: In remarkable start to 2024, Boston has had only 2 homicides this year (March 21, 2024)

St. Louis Today: Program to curb murders in St. Louis area aims to start this fall (February 22, 2024)

WATE: How Knoxville’s violence prevention plan helped reduce 2023 shootings (February 1, 2024)

Boston Herald: Shootings in Boston reached record low in 2023 (January 6, 2024)

Knox News: Knoxville saw a more than 30% decline in homicide numbers in 2023, lowest since pandemic (January 3, 2024)

Police 1: St. Louis initiative aims to reduce homicide rates by 20% using focused deterrence strategy (December 26, 2023)

Council on Criminal Justice: Perspectives on DOJ Violent Crime Reduction Roadmap (December 21, 2023)

St. Louis Today: Officials pitch plan to curb murders in St. Louis region. Business groups say they’ll back it (December 11, 2023)

U.S. DOJ: Justice Department Announces Release of Violent Crime Reduction Roadmap (December 11, 2023)

First Alert 4: St. Louis area leaders meet to discuss regional approaches to reducing homicides (December 4, 2023)

WVLT: Gun deaths in Knoxville down from last year, city has plan to keep that trend going (November 2, 2023)

Police 1:IACP 2023: Gun violence is a ‘sticky’ problem that requires focused, balanced, fair solutions (October 15, 2023) 

Washington Post: At House subcommittee hearing, agreement that D.C.’s in a crime crisis (October 12, 2023) 

AP News: As research grows into how to stop gun violence, one city looks to science for help (August 24, 2023)

WATE: Knoxville leaders aim to expand violent crime reduction plan (August 3,2023)

Dorchester Reporter: City strategy on violence: A year-round, street-by-street effort (June 14, 2023)

Terp Magazine: An End to the Bleeding (May 24, 2023)

St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Messenger: It'll take help across boundaries to solve the homicide problem in St. Louis (May 18, 2023)

St. Louis Post-Dispatch: After crime summit St. Louis leaders eye collaboration with national expert on crime plan (May 18, 2023)

Boston Globe: Boston Pledges to Slash Homicides and Shootings by 20 percent by 2026 (April 7, 2023)

Boston Globe: Boston Partners with National Researchers to Develop New Gun Violence Reduction Strategy (April 4, 2023)

NPR’s Consider This: Finding Solutions For Crime – Without Politics Getting In The Way (March 4, 2023)

WATE: Knoxville leaders building plan to reduce violent crime (March 1, 2023)

Crime and Justice News: How New Maryland Center Will Help Combat Community Violence (January 18, 2023)

Arnold Ventures: A New Anti-Violence Center Offers Scientific Solutions to Gun Violence (January 12, 2023)

WBIR: Knoxville partners with violence reduction center in Maryland, one of the first cities in the nation (December 14, 2022)

WATE: ‘The only goal is to save lives’: How new partnership will make Knoxville more safe (December 14, 2022)

WATE: Knoxville chosen for University of Maryland study to reduce violent crime (December 14, 2022)

Wall Street Journal: The U.S. Knows How to Reduce Crime  (November 25, 2022)

Maryland Today: New Center Takes Aim at Rising Community Violence (November 22, 2022)