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How Denver’s Northeast Park Hill community reduced youth violence by 75%

  • Written by Beverly Kingston, Director and Senior Research Associate, Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence, University of Colorado Boulder
How Denver’s Northeast Park Hill community reduced youth violence by 75%The neighborhood had nearly double the youth arrest rate of the other 76 Denver neighborhoods combined.Royalty-free/Getty Images

Northeast Park Hill, a Denver neighborhood, has a long history of violence. During Denver’s summer of violence in the early 1990s, it was considered ground zero for gang conflict.

From the late 1990s through 2014,...

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