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NYC Steps Up Partnerships with Cops, Communities, and Courts to Create Safer Summer

NYC Steps Up Partnerships with Cops, Communities, and Courts to Create Safer Summer

By Yehudit Garmaise

     Mayor Bill de Blasio is finally “doubling down on crime,” he said, and it is just in time because the NYPD just reported a 250% increase in shootings last week, compared to this week, last year.

     “This won’t just be a summer of recovery, it will be a summer of safety,” said de Blasio before launching his three-part plan that “coordinates across whole justice system” to improve the ways in which “communities, cops, and courts” can come back “full-strength.”

     First, the mayor spoke about, as he often does, crime-fighting “community-based solutions,” such as a “summer youth anti-violence employment effort that get summer youth working in the right direction to avoid violence.”

     NYPD Police Chief Rodney Harrison added, “In order for us to stop the violence, we have to get young people moving in the right direction: teach them a trade, a skill set, positive activities, mentors, and hope for the future.”

     In terms of cops, the mayor said, “We need to make sure police are where we need them most intensely.”

  Among his ideas were to choose exact city blocks at which violence tends to take place and station police officers in a “100-block strategy,” that “pinpoints crimes down to a block level.”

    “Less than 1% of the population commits crime,” said Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez, as he explained how Precision Policing can ensure “the right police presences in key areas.”

    The most important thing, however, that is going to happen to reduce crime is that the courts are going to reopen, said the mayor, who mentioned last week’s reopening of the courts in Brooklyn.

     The court system shows people that there are consequences to harming people and committing violence actions, and the courts were closed in the past year.

  “Police [this year] were making the highest level of arrests in 25 years, but folks getting arrested when they caused harm to others,” the mayor said. “Nothing could happen because court system not open. Now that the courts are reopening, we are going to create a culture of consequence, which is what we need.“


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