David M. Kennedy

David M. Kennedy joined the faculty of the John Jay College of Criminal Justice at the beginning of 2005 and can be reached there at 212-484-1323 or dakennedy@jjay.cuny.edu.

From 1991 to 2004, David was a senior researcher at the Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. His work focused on strategies for assisting troubled communities. He has written and consulted extensively in the areas of community and problem solving policing; police corruption; and neighborhood revitalization. He has performed field work in police departments and troubled communities in many American cities, London, Sydney, and Puerto Rico. He is the co-author of a seminal work on community policing, Beyond 911: A New Era for Policing, and numerous articles on police management, illicit drug markets, illicit firearms markets, youth violence, and deterrence theory, including editorials in the New York Times, Washington Post, and elsewhere. He has advised the Justice Department, the Department of the Treasury, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, the Office of National Drug Control Policy, and the White House on these issues.

He directed the Boston Gun Project, a ground-breaking problem-solving policing exercise aimed at serious youth violence. Its chief intervention, Operation Ceasefire, was implemented in mid-1996 and appears to have been principally responsible for a two-thirds reduction in homicide victimization among those 24 and under citywide. Operation Ceasefire won the Ford Foundation Innovations in Government award, the Herman Goldstein International Award for Problem Oriented Policing, and the International Association of Chiefs of Police Webster Seavey Award. He has contributed to similar homicide prevention exercises in San Francisco, Minneapolis, Indianapolis, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, High Point and Winston-Salem, North Carolina, San Joaquin County, California, and elsewhere. He helped design the Youth Crime Gun Interdiction Initiative, launched by the Clinton Administration in 1996, for which he received a director's commendation from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms.

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