David M. Kennedy

David M. Kennedy is an American criminologist and professor who specializes in crime prevention among inner city gangs. He developed Operation Ceasefire, a group violence intervention strategy implemented in Boston during the 1990s that produced significant reductions in youth homicide, and later created the High Point Model for drug market intervention in North Carolina. Kennedy founded the National Network for Safe Communities in 2009 and directs a research center at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City, where he has taught since 2005. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/