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 - Corporation for National & Community Service
   The Corporation for National and Community Service engages Americans of all ages and backgrounds in service to help strengthen communities.

 - First Anniversary of PSN Marks Expansion
   Chicago,IL- PSN-Chicago welcomes your interest and involvement in making all neighborhoods safe.

 - Firearms Trafficking 101 Or Where Do Crime Guns Come From?
   On November 21, 1994, Bennie Lee Lawson, who had previously been interviewed by DC Police in relation to a triple homicide, entered Metropolitan Police Headquarters in Washington, DC and asked where the homicide squad was located. By mistake, he ended up in the offices of the cold case squad, a unit comprised of DC Police and FBI agents, which evaluated and reopened, unsolved homicide cases. Once inside the office, Lawson produced a fully automatic MAC-11 and opened fire. In the moments that followed, a police officer, Frank Daley, and two FBI agents, Martha Hernandez and Mike Miller, were shot and killed. A third FBI agent was severely wounded by the gunfire, but survived. Lawson eventually took his own life. In the end, law enforcement would be left with little; a dead suspect who was a convicted felon, an unlawfully possessed fully automatic weapon with an obliterated serial number, and one burning question - "How did Bennie Lee Lawson, a convicted felon legally barred from possessing a firearm, get a gun in Washington, DC, where handgun possession is restricted?"

 - 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. This concept was not uniformly embraced at the SACSI sites at the onset. Prosecutors, police officers, and probation officers wondered: "Could the decisions we make really affect who will get shot tomorrow night or next week?" This provocative question was eventually answered with a "yes," but only after considerable hard work by many people. This article presents the main lessons from SACSI problem-solving efforts with the hope that the Project Safe Neighborhoods Initiative (PSN) sites will learn from what SACSI has accomplished.

 - Using Community Resources in Gun Violence Reduction Initiatives
   In launching Project Safe Neighborhoods, Attorney General Ashcroft called on United States Attorneys to work with coalitions within their communities to increase citizen awareness and participation in their district`s gun violence reduction program. In the not too distant past, directing federal prosecutors to partner with community-based groups in a crime-reduction initiative would have been unthinkable. United States Attorneys are now increasingly including community outreach as part of their mission. The communities that United States Attorneys work with are potentially well situated for partnership responsibilities, a result of community development initiatives of the Department of Justice`s Office of Justice Programs (OJP). This article illustrates how a United States Attorney`s Office can benefit from OJP`s work in establishing, training, and funding community public safety coalitions.

 - Community Involvement: A Smart Move
   A comprehensive approach to community involvement.

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

 - Approaching Community Violence Prevention
   Various findings designed to better help you work against violence in your community.

 - Crime Prevention Tips
   This October, you can help Take A Bite Out of Crime© by supporting National Crime Prevention Month. Reducing crime is everyone’s business. Together we can make our communities safer and citizens more empowered in the fight against crime.

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