David Kennedy, a professor from John Jay College of Criminal Justice, went to Cincinnati in the fall of 2006 to pitch his program, which is sometimes known as Ceasefire.
Kennedy first implemented his revolutionary approach to curbing gang violence in Boston and has since implemented it in Providence, Rhode Island; and High Point, North Carolina where it was most successfully used to deter public drug dealing.
The program has been a success so far in Cincinnati as well and is being seen as a new tool for making communities safer.
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