It doesn’t seem that long ago. From my 13th floor office on K Street in Washington, my staff and I at the National Crime Prevention Council (NCPC), witnessed plumes of smoke gushing up from the Pentagon, the last of the 9/11 hijacked planes having just completed its attack. But what to do about it? NCPC’s […]
More Reflections on Obama’s Election
Dear All: I’ve just returned from Montreal, speaking at a press conference of the agency, the International Centre for the Prevention of Crime on whose board I once sat, and for a year chaired. Was beautiful: a European city, just over our border, brisk cold with light powdery snow falling on a brightly lit city […]
The Essential Role Played by Probation in California’s 13-City Gang Prevention Network
“This initiative has been fantastic. If I’ve got an idea or a problem, I know I can call or visit a colleague in a Network city, a colleague who is doing what I’m thinking about doing.” ~Paul Vinetz, LA County Probation With gangs playing a disproportionate role in violent crimes in many communities, probation officials […]
Reflections on the Election of Barak Obama
A Call to the Best in Each of Us It was an evening of triumph without triumphalism, victory without vindictiveness. There was no “It’s our turn,” no dualism—us/them. A profound sense that we are in it together, that the better angels in each of us is being summoned, to me marked one of the most […]
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