The surge in shootings in New York is testing the premise that critics of policing have argued for years: Gun violence can be prevented without throwing more cops at the problem. ChristRobbins reports on the plight of the city's violence interruptors
Jamal Glasgow and Anthony Green of Elite Learners in Brownsville, Brooklyn. Photo: DeSean McClinton-Holland When someone has been shot or is about to shoot someone in Brownsville, there is a good chance that Darien Scriven knows who they are. For the past five years, the 55-year-old has worked as a counselor for Brownsville In, Violence Out, the anti-violence arm of a nonprofit that gets funding from the city.
New York City is asking the same question. While most other major crimes are down, murders in the city jumped by 45 percent in 2020, when 462 people were killed — the most since 2011 — and this year is already outpacing 2020, like dozens of other major U.S. cities. Just recently, stray bullets have killed Shalimar Birkett, a 32-year-old mother attending a vigil in Brownsville, and Justin Wallace, who was sitting in his house in Far Rockaway just days shy of his 11th birthday.
Abt, who is encouraged by the work of community nonprofits, said he is wary of funding them at the expense of police budgets. “No city has successfully arrested its way out of violent crime, but no city has successfully programmed it’s way out of violent crime either,” he said. “We need police and community-based groups working together, not competing for funding.”
“Disgraceful the amount of people shot in Manhattan North in the past 24 hours! Where are the elected officials and violence interupter!! [sic]” one NYPD commander tweeted last summer during a surge in shootings. “The community is suffering!! Many anti-violence workers see the NYPD as necessary partners. “There are dangerous people out in the streets, and the police are definitely needed,” Scriven said.
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