

• Focusing on Focused Deterrence

• Dramatic drop in South Philadelphia gun violence City officials and criminologists cited in these and other recent media reports most often attribute the progress to data-driven police strategies, as we have shared in the past:

Nutter cited a three-step strategy, including aggressive attention to illegal guns and hotspot policing, but also convening frontline stakeholders across the city to prevent violence before it happens.

So, why do media reports focus only on police innovations when we see progress?

GunCrisis.org Our mission at the includes reporting on "the groups and individuals pursuing possible solutions to end the epidemic of homicide by gunfire, and to look for evidence of successful interventions in our city and beyond."

Here are a few of the programs we have followed most closely: