From Nickerson Gardens to National: An End in Sight to Violence in Inner-City America? BY David M. Kennedy, LAPD Chief Charlie Beck

Summary: Award-winning criminologist Kennedy, who orchestrated the "Boston Miracle", a revolutionary method for gang intervention in the mid-1990s, writes about this successful approach in his new book, Don't Shoot, and discusses solving the problem of crime in our country today, along with the launch of "Operation Ceasefire" in Los Angeles with Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department Charlie Beck.