Cites across the Country have implemented strategies with promising results to tackle the growing gang problem. Those strategies are Social Network Analysis and Operation Ceasefire, which includes Social Network Analysis in the model.
Social network analysis in its simplest form is a map of specific ties, such as friendships, between people or organizations. This approach can help to identify which individual members are most likely to commit violence or be victims of violence and should be the focus of enhanced enforcement and intervention. It can also help law enforcement to better understand the underlying structures of individual street groups. Chicago’s West Side police district credit Social Network Analysis for its 40% decline in homicides. To read the article in the Chicago Tribune about Chicago's West Side's crime reduction click here.
Operation Ceasefire is a problem-orientated policing model that aims to reduce serious crime problems. Operation Ceasefire brings together criminal justice practitioner, uses qualitative and quantitative data, and develops an intervention model for cities and neighborhoods across the Country to reduce serious crimes. The Los Angeles Police Department implemented Operation Ceasefire in its San Fernando Valley after an increase in homicides. Last summer, police sent gang members a notice to gang members that violence will not be tolerated. And 18 gang members participated in a meeting that brought together police, prosecutors and community activists to deliver the message “put the guns down or we’re coming down on you.” To read the article in the Daily News about how Los Angles has implmented Operation Ceasefire click here.
Operation Ceasefire is a problem-orientated policing model that aims to reduce serious crime problems. Operation Ceasefire brings together criminal justice practitioner, uses qualitative and quantitative data, and develops an intervention model for cities and neighborhoods across the Country to reduce serious crimes. The Los Angeles Police Department implemented Operation Ceasefire in its San Fernando Valley after an increase in homicides. Last summer, police sent gang members a notice to gang members that violence will not be tolerated. And 18 gang members participated in a meeting that brought together police, prosecutors and community activists to deliver the message “put the guns down or we’re coming down on you.” To read the article in the Daily News about how Los Angles has implmented Operation Ceasefire click here.
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