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The police have traditionally been considered the experts in crime prevention, and a large body of research supports the effectiveness of many police-led prevention initiatives targeted at crime hot spots. However, there is growing interest in identifying alternative prevention efforts that do not rely on the police, especially in communities whose residents lack trust in and/or have been harmed by formal criminal legal system institutions. In this paper we examine the role of the community in crime prevention beyond the police. We discuss the results of a quasi-experimental evaluation of an innovative place-based, school-community crime prevention partnership in which the community led the crime prevention effort, and social justice and social impact were woven into the initiative from the start. The partnership was associated with statistically significant reductions in crime incidents and calls for police service in the areas immediately surrounding treatment schools, even controlling for the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and school closures. We conclude the paper by more broadly exploring the guidance that research can provide on non-policing interventions and some of the inherent challenges in leveraging informal social controls in this context.