Summary
"Even though crime has decreased across the
country since the early 1990s, high rates of
violence persist in many neighborhoods. In
response, many jurisdictions are seeking ways to
understand and prevent violence with a broader
multidisciplinary approach, treating violence
collaboratively as both a public health issue and a
crime problem.
A growing number of communities have been
adopting this approach. One leading advocate of
this method is The California Endowment, whose
senior vice president, Anthony Iton, has said, “If
you want to change an environment, you have to
change many systems.”
To identify which systems need changing and
the most effective ways to do it, The California
Endowment, the Center for Court Innovation,
and the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of
Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS
Office) met in Los Angeles on August 1, 2014.
In their roundtable discussion titled “Spreading
a Cure for Crime,” law enforcement executives,
public health professionals, funders, researchers,
and government officials worked together
to share information and craft collaborative
strategies to prevent crime."--Page 1.