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Experts urge data-driven Community Violence Intervention, stress street teams and sustained funding
Summary
Community-violence intervention experts told Portsmouth’s Scribe and Gun Violence Prevention Task Force that CVI focuses on targeting a small share of people responsible for most shootings, using credible messengers, daily briefings, data and interagency coordination; they urged sustained city budgeting rather than one-time grants.
Marcus McAllister and Dr. Cicco Tillman, visiting experts with the University of Chicago’s Community Violence Intervention Leadership Academy, told the Portsmouth Scribe and Gun Violence Prevention Task Force that CVI (community violence intervention) uses targeted, data-driven methods and community-based credible messengers to reduce shootings.
The experts said CVI is distinct from broad “violence prevention” programs because it focuses near-term on a small number of people at highest risk, identified through three pathways: social-network algorithms, criminal-justice flags and local community knowledge. “We utilize those three things, not independently but cohesively to identify individuals who should be in the program,” Tillman said.
Why it matters: the presenters argued that concentrating resources on a small number of high-risk individuals is more manageable and more likely to reduce…
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