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 - Project Safe Neighborhood Initiative Launched On Long Island -- Sixteen Prior Felony Offenders Face Federal Firearms Charges
   Announced the filing of federal federal firearms possession charges against sixteen defendants.

 - Execution Of Federal Search Warrants In Furtherance Of Project Safe Neighborhoods
   Washington, DC - Special agents and investigators announced today the successful execution of five federal search warrants in Charlottesville under the new PROJECT SAFE NEIGHBORHOODS initiative.

 - Targeted Crime Reduction Efforts in Ten Communities - Lessons for the Project Safe Neighborhoods Initiative
   The Strategic Approaches to Community Safety Initiative (SACSI) starts with the simple but powerful notion that law enforcement has the power to prevent the next homicide.

 - Project Backfire: The Beginning of the End of Gun Crime in Kentucky
   We have a problem with gun crime in Kentucky. The problem we have is that we have gun crime in Kentucky. More and better prosecution is never the entire solution, but no solution is possible in the absence of consistently aggressive law enforcement. In the Western District of Kentucky we are attempting to provide our part of the solution through Project Backfire.

 - Detroit Sentencing
   United States Attorney Jeffrey G. Collins announced that Juan Jones, a resident of the City of Detroit was sentenced on March 13, 2002 in federal court in Detroit, MI. He was sentenced on one count of felon in posession of a firearm and one count of posession with intent to distribute crack cocaine.

 - Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms` (ATF) Project Safe Neighborhoods Resources
   ATF’s Office of Training and Professional Development has designed a comprehensive package of training and training aids to support the Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) initiative.

 - Project Safe Neighborhoods Enforcement Training
   This three day, intensive course on illegal firearms interdiction is a collaborative effort among the U.S. Department of Justice, the International Association of Chiefs of Police, The National District Attorney`s Association, the National Crime Prevention Council and ATF.

 - Community Gun Violence Prosecution Program
   Awards By State as of March 2002

 - Launching Project Safe Neighborhoods
   APRI Highlights is the newsletter of the American Prosecutors Research Institute (APRI.) As an affiliate of the National District Attorneys Association (NDAA), APRI`s mission is to provide America`s 27,000 local prosecutors -- the elected and appointed prosecutors and their assistants -- with the latest information, research, training and technical assistance.

 - Project Safe Neighborhoods Investigation Targets Illegal Firearms Traffickers
   Knoxville, TN - On June 6, 2002, Harry S. "Sandy" Mattice, Jr., United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Tennessee, and James M. Cavanaugh, Special Agent in Charge (SAC), Nashville Field Division, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF), announced the arrest of 23 individuals, charged in 20 separate indictments, and the execution of 18 Federal search warrants at various locations throughout Tennessee and North Carolina.

 - NYPD Efforts Reduce Gun Violence
   Recent initiatives implemented by the New York Police Department seem to be decreasing gun violence in the city.

 - Helping Communities Reduce Gun Violence
   Ways in which you can implement Project Safe Neighborhoods in your community.

 - Community Policing Ideas from Boston`s Project Ceasefire
   
 - Conclusions
   Effective policing strategies related to gun violence

 
 
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