Operation Ceasefire is one element of a collaborative, comprehensive strategy implemented in Boston to address the community's escalating violent crime rates. For a more detailed description of Operation Ceasefire, and a discussion of how this program fits into Boston's overall crime reduction strategy, see profile 2.
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Problem-solving research for Operation Ceasefire and the Boston Gun Project ... Since Operation Ceasefire, the Boston Gun Project, Operation Night Light, neighborhood policing, tougher youth offender laws, and expanded prevention and intervention programs went into effect, there has been a dramatic decrease in the number...
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The Boston Gun Project’s Operation Ceasefire; Developing and Implementing Operation Ceasefire; David M. Kennedy; Anthony A. Braga; Anne M. Piehl; Measuring the Impact of Operation Ceasefire; Anthony A. Braga; David M. Kennedy;
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Borrowing From Boston; Myriad approac hes to gang violence in Los Angeles in recent decades had failed, so Boston’s Operation Ceasefire became a possible model.
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Operation Ceasefire/; Boston Gun Project ... "Problem-Oriented Policing, Deterrence, and Youth Violence: An Evaluation of Boston's Operation Ceasefire." Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 38, no. 3 (August 2001). (see a draft of the paper)
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Operation Ceasefire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Operation Ceasefire (also known as the Boston Gun Project) is a youth gun violence intervention strategy, first implemented in 1996 in Boston. Violence was particularly concentrated in poor, inner-ci...
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This Research Report is part of NIJ's Reducing Gun Violence publication series. Each report in the series describes the implementation and effects of an individual, NIJ-funded, local-level program designed to reduce firearm-related violence in ... It describes in detail the problem targeted; ... U.S. Department of Justice,
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Operation Ceasefire is a problem-oriented policing intervention aimed at reducing youth homicide and youth firearms violence in Boston. It represented an innovative partnership between researchers and practitioners to assess the city's youth homicide problem and implement an intervention designed ... ... Education and Training...
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Operation Ceasefire is a problem-oriented policing intervention aimed at reducing youth homicide and youth firearms violence in Boston. ... Our impact evaluation suggests that the Ceasefire intervention was associated with significant reductions in youth homicide victimization, shots-fired calls for service,
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the result was Operation Ceasefire, which reduced firearm violence by 68 percent in one year. ... The way the Operation Ceasefire group had imagined working, [a group member] pointed out, was too inflexible for the situations the streets ... Read the report Reducing Gun Violence: The Boston Gun Project's Operation Ceasefire.
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