Project Longevity, a program aimed at reducing violence by gang and group members, has had a positive impact in reducing shootings and homicides in New Haven, according to a study byYale University sociologists.
While New Haven had been seeing an upward trend of homicides starting in 2003, the opposite of the nationwide trend toward lower rates of violent crime, the city began to show a drop in group-related violence with the inception of Project Longevity in November 2012, according to the study sponsored by Yale’s Institution for Social and Policy Studies.
Since that time, there have been 4.6 fewer group member-involved shootings and homicides per month, according to the study.
Hartford, which is also beginning to implement Project Longevity, was used as a control and did not see the decrease in gun violence that New Haven did, according to the report.
[For more of this story, written by Ed Stannard, go to http://www.nhregister.com/arti...51024/NEWS/151029727]
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