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Boston Gun Project
In 1995, the Youth Violence Strike Force, Probation, the TenPoint Coalition, and the Streetworkers began working with David Kennedy and his Harvard team, creating the Boston Gun Project Working Group. The Project, sponsored by a grant from the National Institute of Justice, was an attempt to systematically apply community and problem-solving policing principles to the problem of youth homicide in Boston. Over 1995 and early 1996, principals from all groups noted above (and others) met regularly at YVSF headquarters in an attempt to answer one fundamental question: what is driving the violence, and what, if anything, can we do that will make a substantial impact in the near term? Working Group members shared history and perspectives, conducted and analyzed research, and ultimately crafted what is now known as the Cease Fire intervention.
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