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Council member raises concerns about NYPD program consistency and target audience
2:51:08
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Council Member Nantasha Williams expresses concerns about the consistency of NYPD community programs across the city and questions whether these programs are reaching the intended audience. She specifically focuses on the Explorers program and its participants.
- Williams points out the lack of consistency in programs offered across different parts of the city
- She criticizes the Explorers program for primarily attracting 'cream of the crop' students rather than at-risk youth
- Williams emphasizes the need to engage a more diverse group of young people, including those 'hanging on the block'
- Assistant Commissioner Foster offers to meet and discuss these concerns in more detail
Nantasha Williams
2:51:08
Okay, thank you.
2:51:09
And more consistency across the city like there's a dance program one place in the city and then you have boxing made, it's it's just no consistency within that unit at all.
Alden Foster
2:51:21
I would love to sit with you, talk further and explain the plan and and how this all works together.
Nantasha Williams
2:51:29
And then lastly, feel like even with the Explorers program, you tend to like get the cream of the crop in the community that actually interact with the police department.
2:51:37
Like you're not getting the kid on in the sand on a block, that's not who's in the Explorers program.
2:51:42
These are like cream of the crop and so just another thing like it is helpful if you're like recruiting diversity of young people not just cream of the crop because I love the Explorers as well.
2:51:56
They volunteer at all my programs.
2:51:59
Every event that I have in the district, I always have the Explorers and these are like cream of the crop students.
2:52:03
These are not again the students hanging on the block.
Alden Foster
2:52:06
So councilman, we do have over a thousand young people citywide.
2:52:10
I would definitely like to sit with you and then really talk about that program as well and the young people that we have in that program.