Talk:Operation Ceasefire

Some suggested style changes

I came across this article. I didn't update anything, but there were parts that I personally thought could be made clearer, or otherwise touched up. The following are my thoughts, but this is basically style-related editing, so it's a matter of preference.

• Item 1

In the first paragraph, "criminologist" should not be capitalized.

• Item 2

State-Wide Jurisdictions

Further, several states have associated Ceasefire programs.

Connecticut – Project Longevity

But only one state is listed.

• Item 3

Findings & Results

The Pareto Principle in Ceasefire

Research on the Ceasefire method has found a profound and so far invariant connection between serious violence and highly active criminal groups.[5] A typical city-level finding is that groups collectively representing under 0.5% of the city’s population will be connected as offenders, victims or both, with between half and three quarters of all homicide in the city.[10] Typically, a very small percentage of a city's population will be associated-- as offenders, victims, or both-- with the vast majority of all homicides in the city.[10] This Furthermore, the proportion of homicides associated with this small group is likely an underestimate and the lower bounds bound, since only incidents known to be street group connected connected to street groups are counted as such. This means that some substantial portion of those not known will also be group connected.[10] This sentence could be made clearer, but all in all, it's not clear that it's correct, it doesn't seem to add much, and it may dull the point just made.

In Boston, for example, which at the time had a population of roughly 556,180 people, approximately 1,500 individuals were identified as comprising 61 separate groups. This 0.3% of the population was responsible for 60% of the city’s homicides.[2][11] Similarly, in Cincinnati in 1997, which had an approximate population of 333,210, between 800 and 1,000 individuals (less than 0.3% of the population) were identified as being group related, and were responsible for 75% of the city’s homicides.[12] Would this whole paragraph be better represented as a table, maybe with one introductory sentence? (I don't know what labels you'd want for headers, etc.)

City	Population	Individuals identified as (?) high risk (?) -- number	(?) Individuals identified as high risk -- percentage of the population	Percent of homicides this group is responsible for
Boston	556,180	1,500	0.3%	60%
Cincinnati	333,210	800 - 1,000	< 0.3%	75%

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Results from Ceasefire Sites

Ceasefire strategies have been deployed in more than 60 cities – from Los Angeles to Providence, from Chicago to Nashville – I don't know but this seems too whimsical for an encyclopedia article; does it really add anything? over almost 20 years. A recent Campbell Collaboration Systematic Review of the strategies, and others related to them, concluded that there is now “strong empirical evidence” for their crime prevention effectiveness.[13]

The following section seems a bit weak as it's just a list written out in paragraph form. Studies of the initial Boston Operation Ceasefire found a 63% reduction in youth homicide.[14] Stockton’s Operation Peacekeeper produced an overall 42% reduction in gun homicide homicides?? in the city.[15] The Chicago extension of the national Project Safe Neighborhoods initiative capitalize Initiative??, has shown 37% reductions in homicide a 37% reduction in homicides,[16] while the Lowell, MA Project Safe Neighborhoods efforts have produced 44% reductions in gun assault reduced gun assaults by 44%.[17] A 34% reduction in homicide homicides?? has been recorded in Indianapolis, IN after the launch of the Indianapolis Violence Reduction Partnership.[18] Cincinnati, OH’s Cincinnati Initiative to Reduce Violence (CIRV) has shown a 41% reduction in street group member-related homicides.[19]

Jkgree (talk) 22:09, 14 June 2017 (UTC)

Missing History

I think there are some notable events missing from this article. I'm doing research into Safe Streets as part of my work on the Cure Violence Global organization (Safe Streets was originally trained by workers from CVG, and the CVG founder has written editorials in support of Safe Streets in the Baltimore Sun), and I was surprised to read the sentence "Operation Ceasefire, a program Rawlings-Blake restarted last year, is trying to re-establish itself under new leadership." It seems notable that it stopped at some point and then was re-started. This article mentions that one site was abandoned, but that does not sound like the scope of what the Baltimore Sun article is referring to.

Unfortunately I do not have time to follow this because the CVG work is already a lot more than I anticipated when I first started, but I wanted to leave this note here along with a link to the relevant article in case anybody wants to pick this up.

https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/crime/bs-md-ci-safe-streets-20150601-story.html

skyvine 🏳️‍⚧️ (talk) 01:54, 5 May 2023 (UTC)