Charles J. Hynes has served as district attorney of Kings County (better known as Brooklyn), New York, since 1989. Here, he discusses his interest in community prosecution and his views about criminal justice innovations.
Judge Richard Hopper is the presiding judge of the Hennepin County Community Calendar in Minneapolis, Minnesota. In the following interview conducted at the national community court coordinators meeting in February 2000, Judge Hopper talks about the institutional obstacles planners had to overcome to launch the court.
Judith S. Kaye served as chief judge of the State of New York from 1993 to 2008. She was the first woman to serve on New York State's highest court when Governor Cuomo appointed her Associate Judge of the Court of Appeals on September 12, 1983. Before her retirement, Judge Kaye talked about the Midtown Community Court and the Center for Court Innovation.
Former Marion County District Attorney Scott C. Newman was elected Marion County Prosecutor in 1994, and was the driving force behind the Marion County Community Court that opened in April 2001. He talked with Sarah Archer-Beck of the Community Justice Exchange about the court..
Scott C. Newman was elected Marion County District Attorney in 1994, and served until 2003. In this role he made community prosecution a key part of his overall crime-fighting strategy for Indianapolis and surrounding areas. He talked with Sarah Archer-Beck of the Community Justice Exchange about his interest in community justice and the obstacles he encountered—and overcame—as his office looked for new ways to address issues of crime and public safety.
Dr. Catherine Coles has been a researcher and fellow in the Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University since 1996. In December 2001, Nicole Campbell of the Center for Court Innovation and Catherine Coles discussed the burgeoning field of community prosecution including its origins, best practices and its future.
In 1992, Portland District Attorney Michael Schrunk asked then Assistant District Attorney Mike Kuykendall to help launch a community prosecution program, one of the first in the country. Later, he directed the Community Prosecution Program at the American Prosecutors Research Institute in Virginia for several years before returning to Portland. At the time of this interview, he was Vice President of Central City/Downtown Services for the Portland Business Alliance. Here he speaks with the Center for Court Innovation’s Robert V. Wolf about his work.
Judge Alex Calabrese is the presiding judge at the Red Hook Community Justice Center, a multi-jurisdictional community court that opened its doors in 2000 in a renovated parochial school in southwest Brooklyn. Recently, he sat down with Center staff to discuss his work in the court.
Judge Ruben Martino presides over the multi-jurisdictional courtroom that handles both housing and juvenile delinquency cases at the Harlem Community Justice Center. Carolyn Turgeon from the Center for Court Innovation sat down to talk with him about juvenile justice.
As Chief Community Prosecutor of the Fulton County District Attorney's Office from 2001 until 2005, Wanda Dallas acquired a wealth of first-hand knowledge about solving neighborhood problems. Perhaps the most important lesson she learned is about how to engage the community—a critical feature of any community prosecution program and one whose importance was underscored for her when the community protested the seizure of a drug house. She talked about that particular experience and others with Robert V.
