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PSN in Your Area

Visit the Project Safe Neighborhoods Web site to learn about PSN activities in your region.

Prevention Strategies

Gun violence prevention programs employ multiple strategies including:

Gun Violence Programs: Project Safe Neighborhoods

Project Safe Neighborhoods is a national initiative to address gun violence by bolstering local programs. PSN is built upon three earlier federal initiatives: Project Exile, Operation Ceasefire, and SACSI.

U.S. Attorneys in all 50 states have implemented Project Safe Neighborhoods by chairing multiagency law enforcement task forces, developing programs to reduce firearms violence in their districts and enlisting community involvement.

NIJ researchers are evaluating several promising Project Safe Neighborhoods programs, such as a focused deterrence program in High Point, N.C., that is using drug trafficking data to identify areas for concentrated intervention.

Learn about the High Point program.

Gun violence intervention programs launched in the 1990s developed a body of evidence about which strategies and tactics work best to reduce gun violence. Project Safe Neighborhoods is applying this knowledge to communities across the nation. Researchers and policymakers are finding that some combination of lever pulling and focused deterrence, communication, data-driven problem solving and linking offenders to opportunities can be applied in nearly any jurisdiction to reduce gun crime. Learn about these gun violence reduction tactics.

Learn more about Project Safe Neighborhoods from an NIJ Research in Brief.

To learn more about Project Exile, see Promising Strategies to Reduce Gun Violence, Profile No. 38, and the Richmond Police Department Project Exile Web page Exit Notice.

Go to Gun Violence Prevention Strategies: Problem Solving.

Date Entered: June 26, 2008