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  • Behind LA's dramatic decline in gang violence

    February 24, 2015 |

    The Huffington Post |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    In the past, Los Angeles was a dangerous city fraught with gang wars. Lately, though, LA has become a safer city due to six changes enforced by the police cracking down on public violence and gangs.

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  • How police can get it right

    February 08, 2015 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: United States, Atlanta, Georgia

    Atlanta Police Chief George Turner is building a diversified department that's less reactive and more humane. It could offer lessons after Ferguson.

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  • The End of Gangs

    December 29, 2014 |

    Pacific Standard |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    In 2014, the Los Angeles Police Department announced that gang-related crime had dropped by nearly half since 2008. The transformation of LA holds lessons for decreasing violent crime through community policing, a focus on gangs, and the use of CompStat.

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  • What police departments can learn about race relations from the LAPD

    December 21, 2014 |

    Yahoo! News |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    Los Angeles used to be a hotbed of racial profiling and unrest. Now, in the wake of Ferguson and the police killings in Brooklyn, Chief Charlie Beck thinks his force could be a model for the rest of the nation. The dept. has worked hard in recent years to create a police department that reflects the city it serves and has made fundamental progress on key civil rights issues.

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  • Colombia's Data-Driven Fight Against Crime

    November 20, 2014 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Colombia, Medellín, Antioquia

    Colombia has attempted to decrease murder and homicide rates by setting up curfews for teenagers, forcing bars to close earlier in the evening, and creating gun laws to prevent the carrying of weapons. As a result of this epidemiological, data-driven approach, along with other governmental factors, the homicide rate has decreased significantly in most of the cities in which it was implemented.

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  • How Conservative, Tough-On-Crime Utah Reined In Police Militarization

    September 01, 2014 |

    Buzzfeed |

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    Response Location: United States, Utah

    The militarization of police forces in cases such as Ferguson, Missouri’s riots has led the state of Utah to question what can be done to prevent such an overuse of force from happening. Utah expanded upon a law passed by Democratic legislature in Maryland, which Utah’s ACLU reworked with some libertarians, to require the police to provide data about SWAT team usage. Utah’s success demonstrates that demilitarization bills passed with bipartisan support are not impossible.

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  • Camden Turns Around With New Police Force

    August 31, 2014 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Camden, New Jersey

    Since moving to a county-run police department, Camden, N.J., historically one of the nation’s poorest and most dangerous cities, has altered its culture to overcome years of mistrust by developing a personal relationship with and empowering the local community.

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  • Mental Health Cops Help Reweave Social Safety Net In San Antonio

    August 19, 2014 |

    NPR |

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    Response Location: United States, San Antonio, Texas

    Across the country, jails hold 10 times as many people with serious mental illness as state hospitals do, according to a recent report from the Treatment Advocacy Center. To deal with the problem, San Antonio and Bexar County have transformed their mental health system into a program considered a model for the rest of the nation - the effort has focused on an idea called "smart justice" — basically, diverting people with serious mental illness out of jail and into treatment instead.

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  • How Cincinnati Revitalized Police-Community Relations

    June 25, 2014 |

    The Takeaway |

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    Response Location: United States, Cincinnati, Ohio

    After a policeman shot and killed a teenage African American, a community in Cincinnati blamed law enforcement for racial profiling and riots expanded throughout the city. With the help of the Department of Justice as a mediator, Cincinnati made policy changes. The city now has an African American Police Association that brings police officers in communication with representatives of communities.

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  • Did this city bring down its murder rate by paying people not to kill?

    June 01, 2014 |

    Mother Jones |

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    Response Location: United States, Richmond, California

    Since Richmond, California’s Office of Neighborhood Safety began paying stipends to its “fellows” – the dozens of young men it works with at any given time who are deemed to be at high risk of gun-violence involvement – nearly all of its subjects have survived. Other evidence of its success is anecdotal or merely suggestive of an effect on the city’s violence. While the police chief warily credits it for being a positive force, others in the community are skeptical, if not outright antagonistic.

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