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Category: Press Coverage
NY1 News — Study: Community Program Reducing Violence in Two NYC Areas
NY1 News reports on JohnJayREC’s recent study about the effects of Cure Violence. Includes a short comment from Jeffrey Butts.
The Trace — Big Drops in Gun Crime Reported in NYC Neighborhoods Where ‘Violence Interrupters’ Patrol
Ann Givens The Trace The most comprehensive study yet of a popular violence-prevention group’s New York City program has found
Wall Street Journal — ‘Interrupters’ Help Reduce Violence in New York City
Wall Street Journal article described JohnJayREC’s study of the Cure Violence model in New York City.
WRVA News Radio — Violent Crime Data from the FBI
Crime Upticks September 27, 2017 JohnJayREC director, Jeffrey Butts, interviewed on WRVA NewsRadio by host Jeff Katz, discussing new crime
The Trace — Feds Say One of Chicago’s Last ‘Violence Interrupters’ Was Really a Gang Leader
Francisco Sanchez said his days as a gang leader on Chicago’s West Side were over. At 50, he said he had seen numerous lives ruined by violence — young people losing the best years of their lives to prison; children left without parents in the name of petty disputes and turf wars. That’s why he became something else: a leader in an organization committed to ending gun violence.