Violence Prevention Initiatives Across New York State

by
Rebecca Balletto, Jeffrey A. Butts, Sheyla A. Delgado, Justice Evans, Gina Moreno, Michael Rempel, René Ropac, Elia Del Carmen Solano-Patricio, and Kathleen A. Tomberg

Research and Evaluation Center
&
Data Collaborative for Justice
February 2025

Officials from New York State government asked researchers at John Jay College of Criminal Justice to assess the community safety benefits derived from more than ten years of investment in violence prevention initiatives managed at the county level. As of 2014, nearly two dozen counties in New York were operating at least one of the different violence prevention models funded by the State. The scale of the investments expanded significantly after 2021. John Jay College research teams from the Research and Evaluation Center (JohnJayREC) and Data Collaborative for Justice (DCJ) examined changes in the incidence and rate of serious and violent offenses at the county level between 2010 and 2023 in an attempt to detect the effects of the State’s effort to build community safety at the local level.