Memphis, TN – March 14, 2024 – The City of Memphis continues to struggle with controlling violent crime and has one of the highest rates in the country compared to other large cities. The Group Violence Intervention (GVI) model was adapted in Memphis to help combat the high rate of violent crime. GVI is an evidence-based strategy to help prevent and combat group-involved violence in the community and is built on the idea that group-involved individuals are a small part of a city’s population but are responsible for almost 70% of homicides and gun violence incidents in a city (National Network for Safe Communities, 2016, 2020). [use the link below to continue reading this report]