{"id":29787,"date":"2020-07-18T02:31:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-17T23:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/bill-de-blasios-hopeless-violence-interrupters-cure-for-nycs-soaring-crime\/"},"modified":"2020-07-18T02:31:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-17T23:31:00","slug":"bill-de-blasios-hopeless-violence-interrupters-cure-for-nycs-soaring-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/bill-de-blasios-hopeless-violence-interrupters-cure-for-nycs-soaring-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"#Bill de Blasio\u2019s hopeless \u2018violence interrupters\u2019 cure for NYC\u2019s soaring crime"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Bill de Blasio\u2019s hopeless \u2018violence interrupters\u2019 cure for NYC\u2019s soaring crime<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n Every day in the city is marked by shootings, many deadly. Murders are up 23 percent this year, and the pace of shootings app<\/a>ears to be accelerating: Almost 400 people have been shot since Memorial Day.<\/p>\n

To hear Mayor Bill de Blasio, though, you\u2019d think things are going great. He brags almost daily about how New York is the \u201csafest big city in America,\u201d a description that\u2019s steadily less true.<\/p>\n

One wonders if the mayor is trolling the city, laughing up his sleeve as he performs what would resemble a successful chief executive\u2019s lame-duck victory lap, if things weren\u2019t unraveling so disastrously.<\/p>\n

The NYPD\u2019s anti-crime unit, which was focused singularly on disrupting gangs and getting guns off the street, was disbanded last month, and the city\u2019s gangbangers have flourished in the new climate of freedom for thuggery and violence.<\/p>\n

In response, the mayor has recommitted the city to supporting \u201cviolence interrupters\u201d \u2014 local community groups that claim to be able to \u201cCure Violence\u201d by quashing beefs and settling disputes before they flare out of control.<\/p>\n

In Harlem last week, the mayor praised Iesha Sekou, the leader of Street Corner Resources, who planned an operation to \u201coccupy the corners\u201d to keep the neighborhood safe.<\/p>\n

De Blasio stressed that \u201cthis city has put millions and millions of dollars into building up the Cure Violence Movement and the Crisis Management System, and it is really money well spent because we are going to the root of the problem. We are trying to create community solutions. You can police in some very effective ways, but that is not the same as addressing the root causes.\u201d<\/p>\n

OK, so why is there so much violence breaking out in precisely the areas where \u201cmillions and millions of dollars\u201d have been spent to address \u201croot causes,\u201d at precisely the same time decriminalization, decarceration and anti-policing policies were launched?<\/p>\n

\u201cOftentimes,\u201d Sekou explained, \u201cwe have to go in the dark at night and have deep conversations about what\u2019s really going on.\u201d But you need to do \u201cwhatever is necessary to save the life,\u201d she added. \u201cSometimes you have to grab a kid up once in a while and put them in the van and just say, look, you\u2019re not getting out.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSome things are orthodox,\u201d Sekou explained, \u201cand sometimes you have to use some unorthodox moves, because it\u2019s really, at the end of the day, about saving the life.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cGrabbing a kid up\u201d and locking him in a van or subjecting him to \u201cunorthodox moves\u201d might, in fact, be just the thing some truculent youths need to set them straight. I don\u2019t condemn community-based \u201ctough love,\u201d though one suspects similar tactics by the NYPD would trigger lawsuits, protests and firings.<\/p>\n

Another \u201cCure Violence\u201d practitioner, Ife Charles, told the story of a young woman named Faith, who\u2019d been \u201cout in the streets years ago.\u201d Over the course of a decade and many long conversations, Charles worked to get Faith out of a life of crime.<\/p>\n

\u201cI remember,\u201d said Charles, when \u201cshe had her first child and she said to me, I\u2019m not ready yet, because you can force someone to [do] something, and then they revert back quickly.\u201d Eventually, Faith decided to turn her life around, and she is now a Cure Violence practitioner herself.<\/p>\n

Tales of redemption are great. But young moms like Faith are not the source of most of the city\u2019s violence. And if it really takes 10 years to turn someone away from a life of serious crime, then one must ask if that\u2019s a successful outcome, given the millions of dollars spent on violence \u201cinterruption.\u201d<\/p>\n

Indeed, the science<\/a> behind \u201ccuring violence\u201d is thin and based largely on a metaphor. Because violence is sometimes described as \u201ccontagious\u201d or an \u201cepidemic,\u201d why not treat it as a public-health problem?<\/p>\n

But real contagious diseases have biological causes that can be identified and treated. They are actually less complex than dysfunctional human behavior, which is much harder to model.<\/p>\n

The one proven method of reducing street crime is proactive policing, which New York practiced to great effect for two decades, cutting homicides 90 percent. Now that we are unwinding all that progress, let\u2019s hope a few people are still in key positions to repair de Blasio\u2019s grave errors.<\/p>\n

Seth Barron is associate editor of City Journal. Twitter<\/a>: @SethBarronNYC<\/em>\n <\/div>\n

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