Reducing Violence News Archive

A profile of Youth Organizing to Save Our Streets (YO S.O.S.), the youth leadership arm of our neighborhood-based anti-violence initiative, Save Our Streets.

A profile of our Save Our Streets (S.O.S.) Bronx program, highlighting its work to create safer streets and the credit it's receiving from anti-violence researchers and the New York City Police Department.

In the context of the recent advocacy on gun violence, a profile of our Youth Organizing to Save Our Streets (YO S.O.S.) program in Crown Heights, Brooklyn—working to combat violence, strengthen youth leadership and their community, and now preparing for a march on Washington.

In an op-ed for City & State, our Greg Berman and Julian Adler offer "three underappreciated lessons" from New York City's historic reductions in crime and incarceration.

Citing John Jay College's evaluation of our Save Our Streets program, an exploration of the role played by the "credible messenger" approach to violence prevention in New York City's historic crime reductions.

A local T.V. report on a milestone reached by our Save Our Streets Brooklyn violence prevention program.

An independent evaluation of our South Bronx violence prevention program by John Jay College found significant reductions in shootings and improvements in social norms around violence.

News 12 Brooklyn reports on the rapid community response organized by our Save Our Streets violence prevention program following a series of shootings in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.

Representatives from the nine sites participating in the federal Minority Youth Violence Prevention initiative gathered in Savannah, Georgia to share accomplishments, learn from common challenges, and plan for how best to carry the work forward.

At the Brooklyn Public Library, a sold-out crowd of 500 finds out about the anti-violence work of S.O.S. Brooklyn. The New York Times reports.