Comprehensive Anti-Gang Initiative

Audience

Strategy

Comprehensive anti-gang initiatives combine enforcement, prevention, and reentry efforts to target gang-related gun violence in high-crime neighborhoods. Sites that implement this approach to tailor the program to their communities’ strengths and areas of need. Enforcement efforts include increased federal, state, and local prosecution; prosecution screening; and hot spots policing. Prevention and intervention efforts include skill building, education, outreach, school-based prevention, and substance use treatment. Reentry efforts include outreach and community-based services for individuals reentering the community following incarceration.

Specific programs and implementation sites:

Comprehensive Anti-Gang Initiative, National Gang Center
Comprehensive Homicide Initiative, Richmond, CA

Helpful resources and citations:

Primary implementing agency:

Law Enforcement

Potential partnering agencies:

Community organizations
Reentry partners

Links to evaluation evidence:

Gang Reduction Program, Promising
PSN Comprehensive Anti-Gang Initiative, Promising

PSN Pillars

Accountability

Focused and Strategic Enforcement

Prevention and Intervention

Community Engagement

Body-Worn Camera Auto-Triggering Technologies

Law Enforcement

Comprehensive Gun Violence Reduction Strategies

Consent to Search and Seize Program

Gun Buy-Back or Turn-In Programs

Gun Courts

Gun Dealer Records Maintenance

Gun Licensing

Gun Prosecution Case Screening

Gun Tracing

Law Enforcement

Gun Violence Prevention Hotlines

Gunshot Detection Technology

Homicide and Non-fatal Shooting Databases

Homicide Investigations and Prosecutions Assessment – PSN Resource

Homicide Review Commissions

Hospital-Policing Partnerships

Identifying and Responding to Chronic Offenders

Lost/Stolen Gun Reporting

Mentoring

Individually Focused

National Instant Criminal Background Check System Denials Investigations

Neighborhood Engagement Units

Nonfatal Shooting Assessment – PSN Resource

Law Enforcement

Policing

Parent/Guardian Counseling

Individually Focused

Parent/Guardian Counseling

Individually Focused

Police-Community Liaison

Public Awareness Campaigns

Real-Time Crime Center

Law Enforcement

Regulating Bulk Firearm Purchases

Promote Safe Storage of Firearms

Problem-Oriented Policing

Search and Seize Policy – Domestic Violence

Street Outreach Workers

Community-based Violence Intervention (CVI)

Sustained Investigation of Gun-Involved Cases

Policing

Youth Counseling

Cure Violence

Community-based Violence Intervention (CVI)

Extreme Risk Protection Orders

Lethality Assessment Instruments

Credible Messenger Program

Community-based Violence Intervention (CVI)

Comprehensive Youth Violence Prevention Programs

Individually Focused

Top Offender List Training – PSN Resource

Law Enforcement

Focused Deterrence

Improve Homicide Investigations

Policing

Respond to Retaliatory Violent Disputes

Law Enforcement

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