Sep 2023

NCGVR Webinar: Interventions to Improve Police Effectiveness

Oeindrila Dube Philip Cook

In a recent webinar hosted by the National Collaborative on Gun Violence Research, Oeindrila Dube presented her findings on the evaluation of Situational Decision-Making, while Philip Cook discussed the evaluation of the Chicago Police Department’s Area Technology Centers.

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Policing Leadership Academy Advisory and Research Committees

May 2025

View the members of the PLA’s advisory and research committees.

Policing Leadership Academy (PLA) Overview
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Policing Leadership Academy (PLA) Overview

May 2025

Read an overview of the Policing Leadership Academy (PLA), a first of-its-kind program launched in May 2023 to train America’s policing leaders working in some of our most violent neighborhoods.

Video: Reducing Violence and Improving Policing
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Video: Reducing Violence and Improving Policing

Feb 2025

This video offers a glimpse into the Policing Leadership Academy, a violence reduction initiative designed to prevent violent crime, support officers, and improve fairness and effectiveness in policing throughout some of the country’s most violent neighborhoods.

Video: Creating Safer Communities by Improving Policing
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Video: Creating Safer Communities by Improving Policing

Jan 2025

Griffin Catalyst highlights the Policing Leadership Academy, a new national leadership program that brings together rising police leaders from around the country for five months of advanced, intensive training in management best practices, leveraging data and technology and building community trust—all with the ultimate goal of creating safer, more vibrant communities.

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Violent crime is falling in Chicago. But will it last?
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Crain's Chicago Business
Jul 2025

Violent crime is falling in Chicago. But will it last?

Greg Hinz for Crain’s Chicago Business provides commentary on the city of Chicago’s declining violent crime rates and highlights Crime Lab analysis of homicide data for New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago from 1890-present. 

Opinion: The good news about murder
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The Washington Post
Jul 2025

Opinion: The good news about murder

In an op-ed for the Washington Post, E.J. Dionne Jr. highlights recent declines in homicides and shootings in the U.S. and discusses this return to pre-pandemic crime levels with Crime Lab leaders Roseanna Ander, Jens Ludwig, CVI Leadership Academy Executive Director Chico Tillmon, and former Los Angeles police chief and advisor to the Policing Leadership Academy Charlie Beck.

How Chicagoans are working to lower homicide, shooting numbers
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Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons
Jul 2025

How Chicagoans are working to lower homicide, shooting numbers

Crime Lab Executive Director Katie Hill joined WBEZ Chicago’s Reset podcast with Sasha-Ann Simons to discuss strategies for maintaining the recent downward trends in shootings and homicides as local violence prevention groups navigate federal funding cuts to research-backed CVI programs.