Violent Crime Prevention
"Effectively combating violent crime also demands that – with the help and leadership of our U.S. Attorneys’ Offices, as well as the FBI, ATF, DEA, and Marshals Service – we continue to crack down on the gang-, gun-, and drug-fueled violence that menaces our streets and threatens our communities. Through intelligence-driven, threat-based prosecutions – we will focus on dismantling criminal organizations and putting them out of business for good. In so doing, we will fight to keep guns out of the hands of criminals and those who are not lawfully allowed to possess them." - Attorney General Eric Holder, April 25, 2011
Anti-Violence Awareness
by U.S. Attorney Jim LettenEastern District of Louisiana
As we in New Orleans continue to grapple with some of the highest per capita homicide rates in the United States, we find ourselves at the tip of the spear of the bold enforcement, prevention, and re-entry strategy which Attorney General Eric Holder presented as the new cornerstones of PSN and this Administration’s invigorated 21st Century anti-violence strategy. That very strategy calls for both short and long-term solutions for what has for too long been a debilitating crime problem in this city and throughout the United States. Indeed, that strategy addresses root causes of violent crime in our communities.
Indiana Project Safe Neighborhoods Video
Tony Dungy, former NFL coach, narrates as three inmates reflect on the choices they made in their youth and how those choices changed their lives forever. The video serves as reminder to other youth that gun and gang violence never solve anything and that bad choices made now can affect their lives forever.
As part of Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN), the Justice Department’s violent crime strategy is a critical initiative being developed and led by an outstanding network of United States Attorneys. The ultimate goal of this initiative is to reduce and prevent violent crime in communities with a focus on three key areas: enforcement, prevention, and reentry.
U.S. Attorneys, Navajo Nation officials, and FBI officials meet to discuss matters including drugs and gang activity, asset forfeiture, arrest procedures and extradition, and efforts to address domestic violence. Links on Tribal Justice
In the Eastern District of Kentucky, 55 members of the "148" gang—an armed narcotics trafficking gang that had operated with impunity in Paris, Kentucky, for years—have all been sentenced.
In the District of New Jersey, 12 alleged members of the Grape Street Crips and 15 alleged members of the Fruit Town and Brick City Brims Bloods Set are indicted.
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Eastern District of North Carolina — December 6, 2011 Curtis Ray Eder Sentenced in US District Court
District of Montana — December 5, 2011 Mexican Veterinarian Sentenced for Conspiracy to Distribute Meth and Unlawful Possession of Firearm
District of Idaho — Dcember 2, 2011 Five MS-13 Members Sentenced to Life in Prison
Northern District of California — December 2, 2011 Man Sentenced to 210 Months Imprisonment on Cocaine Charges
District of Arizona — November 30, 2011 Farmington Man Sentenced to 262 Months in Prison for Attempting to Rob Wells Fargo Bank in Raton, N.M
District of New Mexico — November 29, 2011 Coin, Iowa Man Sentenced to 319 Months in Prison
Southern District of Iowa — November 22, 2011 Federal Prison Term Handed Down to San Antonio Texas Mexican Mafia Member
Western District of Texas — November 18, 2011
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Rap Against Violence is a program in Central Florida designed to get communities talking and moving to action to address gun violence in our neighborhoods.
Eastern District of North Carolina is targeting robberies of commercial establishments under the Hobbs Act and these signs are warnings to would-be robbers.
For information on public events near you, find your local U.S. Attorney’s Office and ask for the Law Enforcement Coordinator.
Fugitive Safe Surrender is a unique, creative, and highly successful, initiative that encourages persons wanted for non-violent felony or misdemeanor crimes to voluntarily surrender to the law in a faith-based or other neutral setting.
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National Criminal Justice Reference Service
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN)
Gang Resistance Education and Training
Links on Youth Violence & Prevention
