David M. Kennedy

David M. Kennedy is the director of the Center for Crime Prevention and Control at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City. He is the author of Deterrence and Crime Prevention: Reconsidering the Prospect of Sanction, etc. He directed the Boston Gun Project, which was responsible for a more than sixty per cent reduction in youth homicide victimization and won the Ford Foundation Innovations in Government award; the Herman Goldstein International Award for Problem Oriented Policing, and the International Association of Chiefs of Police Webber Seavey Award. 

He developed the “High Point” drug market elimination strategy, which also won an Innovations in Government Award. He helped design and field the Justice Department’s Strategic Approaches to Community Safety Initiative, the Treasury Department’s Youth Crime Gun Interdiction Initiative, and the Bureau of Justice Assistance’s Drug Market Intervention Program. He is the co-chair of the National Network for Safe Communities, which includes more than 40 jurisdictions – including Los Angeles, Chicago, Milwaukee, Cincinnati, Boston, Providence, High Point, and the state of North Carolina – dedicated to reducing crime, reducing incarceration, and addressing the racial conflict associated with traditional crime policy.