The Safer Streets Mission: Causes, Solutions and Next Steps to Reducing Violence

One of the five key missions which the UK Government set itself when it came to power in 2024 was to create Safer Streets by increasing confidence in the police, alongside halving knife violence and violence against women and girls over the next 10 years. This BFI conference, co-sponsored by Griffin Catalyst and curated by the Chicago Crime Lab and the UK’s Ending Youth Violence Lab, seeks to inform these efforts with the best available data and evidence, drawing on lessons from the US, UK and other countries, from economics and adjacent social science disciplines, and leading practitioners alongside leading academics.

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Speakers

Abi Adams, Oxford University
Anjali Adukia, University of Chicago
Roseanna Ander, University of Chicago
Kathryn Atherton, Behavioural Insights Team
Iain Brennan, University of Hull
Jennifer Doleac, Arnold Ventures
Oendrila Dube, University of Chicago
David Halpern, Behavioural Insights Team
Lord Hastings of Scarisbrick, UK Parliament
Kenny Imafidon, ClearView Research
Taya Jackson, Behavioural Insights Team
Rt Hon Diana Johnson, Home Officer Minister for Policing and Crime Prevention
Judd Kessler, University of Pennsylvania
Tom Kirchmaier, London School of Economics
Benjamin Krause, Becker Friedman Institute for Economics
Tim Leunig, Nesta
Susanna Loeb, Stanford University
Jens Ludwig, University of Chicago
Tom McBride, Ending Youth Violence Lab
GJ Melendez-Torres, University of Exeter
Lib Peck, London Violence Reduction Unit
Julia Quinn, Director of Philanthropy, Griffin Catalyst
Charles Ramsey, former Commissioner; Philadelphia Police Department, former Chief; District of Columbia Metropolitan Police Department
Nerys Thomas, College of Policing
Chico Tillmon, University of Chicago
Paul Trenell, UK Home Office
Ilana Turko, New York State Executive Chamber
Essi Viding, University College London
Liz Ward, Metropolitan Police
Jon Yates, Youth Endowment Fund