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The Center for Court Innovation—and our operating programs—are regularly featured in the media. Here is a sampling of the press coverage of our work.

  • The 'Cure Violence' Model of Public Safety

    July 14, 2020
    WNYC/Brian Lehrer

    All communities want to be free from violence, but that doesn't mean all communities want more police. Shadoe Tarver, associate director of safety at Save Our Streets, Bed-Stuy, talk about community based models for public safety. 

  • How the Police Could Be Defunded

    June 26, 2020
    The New Yorker

    Anti-violence and community-based organizations in New York City present an alternative approach to public safety. Save Our Streets "helped reduce shootings in the South Bronx area where they work by sixty-three per cent," the New Yorker reports in a profile of our work.

  • Project Reset is Taking Arrested New Yorkers to the Museum Instead of Court

    June 18, 2020
    NBCLX

    Art is a powerful vehicle for racial and social justice. Project Reset partners with Brooklyn Museum to offer individuals with low-level cases the chance to dispose of the case through the study and creation of art that explores perspectives. In this video, teaching artist, Sophia Dawson, and two participants, Denagee and Aristides, share their experiences with NBCLX.

  • Restorative Justice Students Speak Their Truth on Racial Injustice, Win NPR Contest

    June 17, 2020
    NPR

    "Climate change is racial injustice." Taking that as their topic, students in our Brooklyn-based Restorative Justice in Schools program placed first out of 2,200 submissions in NPR's Student Podcast Challenge. Read more about the students, and hear their award-winning episode, in this NPR profile. "Racism is like a tree," explains one of the students, "and police brutality and environmental racism are just a couple of branches off that giant tree."

  • Men in Color Group Wins NPR's Student Podcast Challenge

    June 3, 2020
    The Brian Lehrer Show

    Out of 2,200 submissions across the United States, "The Flossy Podcast," created by the Men in Color group, a project of our Restorative Justice in Schools program, won NPR's Student Podcast Challenge. Students Jaheim and Joshua and teacher Mischael joined WNYC's Brian Lehrer to discuss their winning episode on climate change and environmental racism.

  • Brooklyn’s Problem-Solving Courts Experience a Smooth Reopening

    May 21, 2020
    Brooklyn Eagle

    New York City's problem-solving courts reopened on May 4. In Brooklyn, this includes our mental health court, presided by Judge D'Emic, along with a treatment court and domestic violence court, which provide defendants with services and mental health treatment to aid their rehabilitation under a single judge.

  • Launch of Project Reset on Staten Island Offers Non-Jail Option

    May 14, 2020
    SILive.com

    In partnership with the Staten Island District Attorney's Office, Project Reset has expanded to serve clients on Staten Island. Now operating in four boroughs in New York City, Project Reset is a diversion program offering a new response to a low-level arrest that is proportionate, effective, and restorative.

  • What Will Prisons Look Like After COVID-19?

    May 14, 2020
    USA Today

    In a call to "create a better, more holistic approach to justice in America," an opinion piece in USA Today includes our Red Hook Community Justice Center and Harlem Community Justice Center as examples of restorative justice programs that focus on healing and break the cycle of justice-involvement. 

  • Syracuse Peacemaking Hits The Streets To Hand Out Masks

    May 11, 2020
    Spectrum News Syracuse

    The Near Westside Peacemaking Project already knows community members from their restorative justice and crime prevention programs. Now, our team is visiting those same neighborhoods to hand out masks and gloves to anyone who needs them.

  • Anti-violence Work Continues, Despite Ongoing Pandemic

    April 21, 2020
    News 12 Brooklyn

    The anti-violence work of Save Our Streets is continuing online during the coronavirus pandemic. By turning to social media, S.O.S. and RISE Project are offering virtual workshops on topics like abuse and intimate partner violence. 
     

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