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

By: Beverly Kingston

Outlets: Colorado Newsline

Published: March 12, 2026

Words: 1,258

Last Updated: 4 months, 3 weeks ago

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This commentary was originally published by The Conversation.

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, violent crime in Northeast Park Hill declined from its peak in the early ’90s but remained persistently higher than city averages. In 2016, Northeast Park Hill recorded

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