Community Justice News Archive

The New York City Police Department has announced a push to address high-crime rates in six precincts, a campaign to begin with community meetings. We work on-the-ground in all six precincts. WNYC spoke to our director of community development and crime prevention, James Brodick.

New Jersey Monthly profiles Judge Victoria Pratt and her work developing a problem-solving approach to low-level cases at our Newark Community Solutions.

In The Hill, our director, Greg Berman, along with George Mason University professor David Weisburd, argue proactive policing can work to reduce crime and improve relationships between police and the community, but it must be narrowly targeted and paired with community engagement and fairness.

With the Netherlands preparing to open its first community courthouse, a report on the visit from Dutch Minister for Legal Protection Sander Dekker to our Red Hook Community Justice Center.

Residents of the Wagner House are proposing for the expansion of social programming at the development, as part of their work with the Mayor's Action Plan for Neighborhood Safety. The proposal is dedicated to issues such as mental health, peer support, conflict resolution, restorative justice, and youth development. This resident-run initiative will transform a dilapidated lawn into a community gathering and event space featuring new planters, lawn furniture, a removable stage, a mural, and more.

Praising its "vivid" narrative and "balanced prescriptions throughout," the Los Angeles Review of Books looks at Start Here by our Greg Berman and Julian Adler.

A profile of Midtown Community Court's pioneering history as a problem-solving court, as it continues to serve "people in precarious situations who could be in need of more than punishment."

This article features the Mayor’s Action Plan for Neighborhood Safety and the Patterson Housing tenants—known as the NeighborhoodStat team— who have decided to invest in local gardens with the goal of increasing community engagement and collective efficacy. The article highlights James Reddick of the Center for Court Innovation, along with images of tenant and stakeholder, Eric Murray, taken in the Patterson garden.

From our partner court in Olympia, Washington, to our Midtown Community Court in Manhattan, US News & World Report profiles the many advances in community justice across the country, calling the Center for Court Innovation the "nonprofit engine of the community court movement."

As Scotland looks to reduce its use of incarceration and improve outcomes for the justice-involved, a report on the recent visit and testimony before Parliament of our director, Greg Berman, and the inspiration reformers there are taking from our Red Hook Community Justice Center.