Daily News | A city-led effort to reach potential shooters has produced encouraging results, Philly officials say
of another community-based antiviolence program said it was disorganized and struggling to accomplish basic goals.
“It’s working,” said David Kennedy, a criminologist at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice and a national expert on the strategy. “There aren’t many good days if you do this work. But this is a less bad day than most.” Variations of the approach have led to gun violence reductions in cities such as Oakland, Boston, and Indianapolis, proponents say. And a similar strategy, then called Focused Deterrence, was deployed in South Philadelphia a decade ago but fizzled out,Many of those other iterations relied on “call-ins” in which program leaders would gather members of suspected groups and tell them to stop the violence.
The evaluation of GVI, conducted by criminologist Ruth Moyer, said visits by the mobile teams led to “significant” reductions in violence among contacted groups: about 38% after one visit, and 50% after two.
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