A study from UC Berkeley’s Center for Global Healthy Cities revealed that Richmond, California’s Office of Neighborhood Safety (ONS) achieved a 61% reduction of the city’s gun violence injuries and deaths over the last 14 years. This study displays the impacts of a sustained community violence intervention program. 

Lead author of the research Alice Bruno stated, “We leveraged data from dozens of comparable cities across the United States to estimate what firearm violence would have looked like in Richmond without the ONS, Peacemaker Fellowship. We found that the Fellowship contributed to long-term reductions in violence, and that the declines only grew as the program operated.”