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 A core participating agency was defined as one that regularly participated in the Boston Gun Project Working Group over the duration of the project.<ref name="Braga2">{{cite journal |author=Braga, Anthony A., David M. Hureau, Andrew V. Papachristos |title=Deterring Gang Involved Gun Violence: Measuring the Impact of Boston's Operation Ceasefire on Street Gang Behavior |journal=Journal of Quantitative Criminology |url=http://www.hks.harvard.edu/var/ezp_site/storage/fckeditor/file/pdfs/centers-programs/programs/criminal-justice/GangsGunsUrbanViolence/Deterring%20Gang-Involved%20Gun%20Violence.pdf}}</ref>  The participating core agencies included the [[Boston Police Department]]; Massachusetts departments of probation and parole; the Suffolk County district attorney; the office of the [[United States Attorney]]; the [[Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives|Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms]]; the [[Massachusetts Department of Youth Services]] (juvenile corrections); Boston school police; and gang outreach and prevention streetworkers attached to the Boston Community center program. Other important partners with more intermittent participation include the Ten Points Coalition, the Office of the [[Massachusetts Attorney General]], the [[Drug Enforcement Administration]], and the [[Massachusetts State Police]].<ref name="kennedy" />
-Design on the project began in 1995. It led  to what is now known as the [[Group Violence Intervention]] (GVI), typically overseen by the [[National Network for Safe Communities]], out of [[John Jay College of Criminal Justice]] in [[New York City]], but has also been implemented independently by several jurisdictions. The Boston project launched in 1996 with an innovative partnership between practitioners and researchers. These groups came together to assess the youth homicide problem and implement the intervention, and found a substantial near-term impact on the problem. Operation Ceasefire was based on [[focused deterrence|"pulling levers policing"]] deterrence strategies, which focus criminal justice enforcement on a small number of chronic offenders and gang-involved youth who were responsible for much of Boston's homicide problem.<ref name="dontshoot">{{cite book |last=Kennedy |first=David |author-link=David M. Kennedy (criminologist) |title=Don't Shoot: One Man, A Street Fellowship, and the End of Violence in Inner-City America |year=2012 |publisher=Bloomsbury USA|isbn=978-1608194148 }}</ref>
+Design on the project began in 1995. It led  to what is now known as the [[Group Violence Intervention]] (GVI), typically overseen by the [[National Network for Safe Communities]], out of [[John Jay College of Criminal Justice]] in New York City, but has also been implemented independently by several jurisdictions. The Boston project launched in 1996 with an innovative partnership between practitioners and researchers. These groups came together to assess the youth homicide problem and implement the intervention, and found a substantial near-term impact on the problem. Operation Ceasefire was based on [[focused deterrence|"pulling levers policing"]] deterrence strategies, which focus criminal justice enforcement on a small number of chronic offenders and gang-involved youth who were responsible for much of Boston's homicide problem.<ref name="dontshoot">{{cite book |last=Kennedy |first=David |author-link=David M. Kennedy (criminologist) |title=Don't Shoot: One Man, A Street Fellowship, and the End of Violence in Inner-City America |year=2012 |publisher=Bloomsbury USA|isbn=978-1608194148 }}</ref>
 Early impact evaluations suggested that the Ceasefire intervention was associated with significant reductions in youth homicide victimization,<ref>{{cite journal |author=Braga, A., D.L. Weisburd |title=The Effects of Pulling Levers Focused Deterrence Strategies on Crime |journal=Campbell Systematic Reviews |year=2012 |volume=8 |issue=1|pages=1–90 | doi=10.4073/csr.2012.6|doi-access=free }}</ref> shots fired, calls for service, and gun assaults in Boston.<ref name="kennedy" /> Within two years of implementing Operation Ceasefire in Boston, the number of youth homicides dropped to ten, with one handgun-related youth homicide occurring in 1999 and 2000.<ref name="rushefsky">{{cite book |author=Rushefsky, Mark E. |chapter=Criminal Justice: To Ensure Domestic Tranquility (Chapter 7) |title=Public Policy in the United States: At the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century |publisher=M.E. Sharpe, Inc. |year=2002}}</ref> After a change in supervising personnel within the Boston police department and city government, this first site was abandoned. Youth homicides began to climb again with 37 in 2005 and reaching a peak of 52 in 2010.<ref name="BPDonline">{{cite web|url=http://www.bpdnews.com/2010/11/16/crime-data-%e2%80%93-january-1st-%e2%80%93-november-16th-2009-vs-2010/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110723053114/http://www.bpdnews.com/2010/11/16/crime-data-%e2%80%93-january-1st-%e2%80%93-november-16th-2009-vs-2010/ |archive-date=2011-07-23 |url-status=dead|title=CRIME DATA – January 1st – November 16th, 2009 vs. 2010 : BPDNEWS.COM|accessdate=2014-10-23}}</ref>

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