Operation Ceasefire

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Operation Ceasefire (also known as the Boston Gun Project) is a youth gun violence intervention strategy, first implemented in 1996 in Boston. The plan is based on the work of David M. Kennedy.

Boston

Violence was particularly concentrated in poor inner-city neighborhoods including Roxbury, Dorchester, and Mattapan.[1] There were 22 youths (under age 24) killed in Boston in 1987, with that figure rising to 73 in 1990.[1] Operation Ceasefire entailed a problem-oriented policing approach, and focused on specific places that were crime hot spots. Focus was placed on two elements of the gun violence problem, including illicit gun trafficking[2] and gang violence.[1]

Within two years of implementing Operation Ceasefire in Boston, the number of youth homicides dropped to ten, with one handgun-related youth homicide occurring in 1999 and 2000.[3] Youth homicides later climbed again with 37 in 2005 and reaching a peak of 52 in 2010.[4]

Other cities

The Operation Ceasefire strategy has since been replicated in other cities, including Los Angeles and Oakland, California[5] and various cities in New Jersey including but not limited to Newark, Irvington, Camden and Paterson.[6]

Guns-for-tickets

Operation Ceasefire is also the name for a guns-for-tickets exchange program that was once run by the Denver Police Department, in conjunction with the Denver Nuggets,[7] Colorado Rockies, and Denver Broncos.[8]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Kennedy, David M., Anthony A. Braga, Anne M. Piehl (2001). Reducing Gun Violence: The Boston Gun Project's Operation Ceasefire. 
  2. ↑ Braga, Anthony A., Glenn L. Pierce (2005). "Disrupting Illegal Firearms Markets in Boston: The Effects of Operation Ceasefire on the Supply of New Handguns to Criminals". Criminology & Public Policy 4 (4). NCJ 212303. 
  3. ↑ Rushefsky, Mark E. (2002). "Criminal Justice: To Ensure Domestic Tranquility (Chapter 7)". Public Policy in the United States: At the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century. M.E. Sharpe, Inc. 
  4. ↑ http://www.bpdnews.com/2010/11/16/crime-data-%e2%80%93-january-1st-%e2%80%93-november-16th-2009-vs-2010/
  5. ↑
  6. ↑ National Institute of Justice (February 2005). Research Report: Reducing Gun Violence - Operation Ceasefire in Los Angeles. 
  7. ↑ Boeck, Greg (October 14, 1993). "Nuggets' Ellis makes mark with little fanfare". USA Today. 
  8. ↑ "Bengals, Bucs protest ruling". USA Today. December 16, 1993. 
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