Following the recent March for Our Lives, gun violence is front and centre in America’s law and order debate. Join us at our upcoming event in collaboration with the National Network for Safe Communities looking at how cities implement strategies to reduce violence, improve public safety and minimise arrest and incarceration. Can certain interventions improve relationships between law enforcement and the communities it serves?

Professor David Kennedy is the Director of the US National Network for Safe Communities at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York and Rachel Locke is its Director of International Interventions. They joined United States Studies Centre’s senior lecturer in American politics, Dr David Smith, to discuss how an integrated strategy that narrows in on the specific drivers of violence can keep communities safe, lower homicides and address drug markets.