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At the Center for Court Innovation, we believe community residents are the experts on their own neighborhoods and know best what needs to happen to achieve greater safety. Residents are also the engines that make things work. No matter how much evidence there is that a certain approach can provide results, if community members don’t buy in, it won’t work. Interventions need to be grounded in community-led information gathering to ensure that those most affected by poverty, crime, racism, and institutional neglect have a chance to define what safety means and how to best achieve it.