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RELEASE: 20+ Cities Launch National Offices of Violence Prevention Network, Building on the Movement To Reimagine Public Safety Date: February 2, 2021 Phone: 202.481.8145 Washington, D.C. — Today, 21 cities across the country joined with the National Institute for Criminal Justice Reform (NICJR), Advance Peace, and the Center for American Progress to launch the National Offices of Violence Prevention Network, a coalition of local governments committed to reimagining public safety. The newly formed Network brings together the leaders of civilian local government offices dedicated to commun...

That shows it's actually paying people not to shoot each other. joining me is the founding director of that program, devone boggan. >> thanks for having me. >> you guys are literally paying people not to commit violent crimes. >> yes, and no. let me first say that if we're going to seriously end gun violence in this country, guys like the young men we're working with have to be seen as part of the solution to the equation. certainly we're paying them if you consider putting an 18-month nonmandated fellowship around them to help them help us do something we've demonstrated we can't do without t...

Lot of outreach apparatus in other cities, we don't have a whole lot of turnaround. these are men who themselves have had backgrounds like some of the other young men we are engaging. and they are now vested city employees. and they are the most stable consistent part of our work. they're champions. they're heroes in these communities. and they have a great deal of credibility and legitimacy because they've been stable and consistent over the last four or five years. >> devone boggan talking about richmond, california. i don't care, five months without murder is five months without murder. >> ...