“‘It takes a neighborhood’ to take a stand against gun violence,” said Lance Feurtado, co-founder of King of Kings Foundation. King of Kings is a Cure Violence partner in New York City.
ABC News Live spent the day with Mr. Feurtado and the violence interrupters seeking to make a difference in their community as they find themselves at the center of America’s gun violence epidemic.
Ted Talk – Dr. Gary Slutkin
Al Jazeera – Cure Violence Bronx
PBS NOVA – Cure Violence Feature
PBS NewsHour (2016)
Cure Violence Colombia
Cure Violence Trinidad
Cure Violence South Africa
Cure Violence Animated Short #2
The Daily Show w/ Trevor Noah (2016)
Cure Violence Animated Short
The Interrupters — Award winning documentary
Flamo – clips from The Interrupters
Robert Wood Johnson Fdn – Cure Violence in Chicago
Cure Violence – Relationship with Police
Introduction to Cure Violence
Cure Violence RWJF video
New York City Evaluation Presentation
NYC Panel – Cure Violence in Action
Panel – State of the Evidence on Cure Violence
You & Me Morning Show
ITV News
Gary Slutkin interview with Kelly Wright
Wayne Brewton, Baltimore Safe Streets
Dennis Wise, Baltimore Safe Streets
Gary Slutkin – Dent Conference
Gary Slutkin – PopTech
Gary Slutkin – 2013 Elfenworks
Gary Slutkin presentation to MacLean Center
Gary Slutkin – CUSP 2013
New Yorker Podcast
WNYC – The Takeaway
PRI’s The World
NPR – Tiny Spark
WNYC – The Takeaway
Ted Radio Hour
Anne E. Casey
“Violence is a contagious disease. This is good news as this knowledge offers new strategies for control.”
“The statistical evidence demonstrates specific reductions in [killings] in [Cure Violence] communities.”
“Gary Slutkin of [Cure Violence] wrote to me, “I believe that someday we may be able to contain violence, as we have so many other problems of history.””
“A central characteristic of the Cure Violence model is the use of credible messengers as workers – individuals from the same communities who are trusted and have access to the people who are most at risk of perpetrating violence.”
“Slutkin was stunned and disappointed by the so-called solutions that existed for treating violence.”
“What Slutkin brings … is training and mentoring, technical skill, functional (not locally specific) knowledge, a scientifically developed methodology, and a perspective on how these kinds of problems work in many different places.”
“Successful replication of the [Cure Violence] model in Iraq validates this implicit understanding that violence is a learned behavior that acts like an infectious disease.”
Inspire: Seven Strategies for Ending Violence Against Children
WHO, UNICEF, UNODC, USAID, PAHO, World Bank
“According to multiple quasi-experimental evaluations conducted in Chicago, Baltimore, Brooklyn and New York City (87–90), the Cure Violence programme is associated with fewer shootings, killings and retaliatory killings in communities where it has been implemented fully, with 20–70% reductions in violence.”
