David Kennedy is director of the Center for Crime Prevention and Control, a professor of criminal justice at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and co-chair of the National Network for Safe Communities. His crime-fighting strategies have been refined and deployed in over seventy cities. Kennedy's work has received two Webber Seavey awards from the International Association of Chiefs of Police, two Innovations in American Government awards from the Kennedy School of Government, a Herman Goldstein Award for Excellencer in Problem-Oriented
Policing, and the Hatfield Scholar Award for scholarship in the public interest.
Kennedy is author of Don't Shoot, One Man, A Street Fellowship,
and The End Of Violence In Inner-City America