Via NPR: Interrupting Violence With The Message 'Don't Shoot'

At the start of the month NPR's Fresh Air program hosted guest David M. Kennedy, the author of Don't Shoot One Man, A Street Fellowship, And The End of Violence in Inner-City America. The interview allows the listener to walk next to Kennedy through over 15 years of his work in making cities safer and transformed, not suppressed. Kennedy gives a very raw account of his work and how it started and succeeded; his compassion and focus throughout time is truly inspiring. Anyone who has witnessed city violence will take away a message that can be spread and help heal our violent and hurting cities. Kennedy's main conclusion is of a model that includes everyone -- when promoting change in violent communities it must come from the community itself in all aspects.

Kennedy is the director of the Center for Crime Prevention and Control, and professor of criminal justice at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City. 

To read a summary of the interview or to listen to the interview in whole:

http://www.npr.org/2011/11/01/141803766/interrupting-violence-with-the-message-dont-shoot