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The project's aim is to improve neighborhood safety and decrease gun violence in American communities. Project Safe Neighborhoods was established in 2001 through support from President George W. Bush. [1] The program expands upon strategies used in Boston's Operation Ceasefire, and in Richmond, Virginia's Project Exile.
In November 2015, the director of the Stanford Justice Advocacy Project and co-author of Proposition 47, Michael Romano, said that with respect to Proposition 47, "In the long term, this reallocation of resources should significantly improve public safety". Romano authored a study supporting his conclusion. [10]
Operation Ceasefire (also known as the Boston Gun Project and the Boston Miracle [1]) is a problem-oriented policing initiative implemented in 1996 in Boston, Massachusetts. The program was specifically aimed at youth gun violence as a large-scale problem. The plan is based on the work of criminologist David M. Kennedy.
United States Attorney Brandon B. Brown and the Project Safe Neighborhoods Task Force announced approximately $152,565 in grant funds for Louisiana.
Project Safe Neighborhoods is a Department of Justice funded project that matches Training and Technical Assistance providers with selected field sites. The National Center evaluates field site’s Victim Service Units, conducts joint analyses with partner organizations and hosts training on subjects, such as Domestic Violence and Firearms.
In this capacity, he was the first national coordinator of Project Safe Neighborhoods, which he helped to author. He later served as counsel to the assistant attorney general for the Office of Justice Programs and attorney advisor for the Department of Justice's Office of Public Affairs.
During the 1980s Kennedy worked as a case writer in the Case Program of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. [2] While visiting the Nickerson Gardens neighborhood of Los Angeles on an assignment, he became acutely aware of ravages of the crack epidemic and gang-related violence on poor communities of color in the United States.
Immergut was born in Brooklyn, on December 22, 1960. [2] [3] Her father was an Austrian chemist and her mother a Swedish mathematician. [3]Her parents married in Sweden and then immigrated to the United States where Karin was born.