Community Violence Intervention Strategy

Overview

Community Violence Intervention (CVI) programs focus on reducing homicides and shootings by establishing relationships with people at the center of gun violence in our communities. These programs support people at the highest risk of being victims or perpetrators—or both—of violence.

Based on recent trends in shootings, killings and other forms of severe violence as evidenced by health indicators and local police data on shootings and violent incidents for at least the past three years, the City seeks to focus its initial CVI programming on several specific neighborhoods.

Initiatives

National Partners

• Cities United
• Equal Justice USA
• Everytown
• Giffords Law Center
• National League of Cities
• Safety and Justice Challenge
• The National Institute for Criminal Justice Reform
• Vera Institute of Justice
• Youth. Gov - Engage, Implement, Locate

Community Violence Intervention Reports

Information assembled by outside organizations about violence intervention and public safety in the City of St. Louis.

• Center for Policing Equity: Reimagining Public Safety in the City of St. Louis
• Gifford's Center for Violence Intervention: Addressing Community Violence in the City of St. Louis
• Vera Institute of Justice: Community Violence Intervention Programs, Explained
• 24-Hour Cities Network Safety Insight Report

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