AGENCY TESTIMONY
Proactive community campaigns and education efforts
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The NYPD emphasizes the importance of prevention through education and community outreach to combat elder fraud. These efforts aim to inform elderly community members about common scams and how to avoid them.
- Stresses that prevention is the best cure for elder fraud
- Highlights the goal of educating the community to prevent financial loss and avoid contact with the justice system
- Mentions that more detailed information about the Crime Prevention Division will be discussed later
Josh Levin
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The best cure is prevention.
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If you can educate the community, they can remove themselves from the harmful situation, which prevents any financial loss and avoids any contact with the justice system entirely.
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Now, we're gonna speak today, I'm sure, more in-depth to the work of the crime prevention division, but I wanna briefly highlight some of their efforts here.
