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or silence your cell phone or other electronic devices. it s now my pleasure to introduce this evening speaker, david kennedy. mr. kennedy is a professor of criminal justice said john jay college as well as director at the center for crime prevention and control. a self-taught criminologist, he helped engineer the boston miracle in the 1990 s by bringing together law enforcement community leaders and drug traders to cut down on a street violence in the boston neighborhoods. his work has been adapted for cities across the country and has earned him numerous awards including the to innovations in american government from the kennedy school here at harvard. his new book, don t shoot is a memoir of his work developing and implementing his program by understanding and describing street violence on criminal level. the recent on line review for the new republic notes would is brilliant about his work is that specificity. its insistence that street violence has its own special cont