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NYPD youth intervention programs and their effectiveness

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Council Member Rita C. Joseph inquires about NYPD intervention programs for youth who have experienced gun violence. Assistant Commissioner Alden Foster describes various initiatives and partnerships aimed at supporting and engaging young people.

NYPD partners with DYCD to hire and engage 1,000 young people during summer programs
Focus groups are conducted to determine what kind of programming young people want
Officials assert that these programs help deter young people from crime and highlight success stories

Rita C. Joseph

2:22:12

I have another question for you.

2:22:13

Does the NYPD have any intervention programs to support youth that had previously experienced gun violence?

2:22:18

You spoke about that earlier in in your community ceasefires.

2:22:21

Are young people also part of this conversation as you putting out these programs?

Alden Foster

2:22:25

Absolutely.

2:22:26

And, what we do during the summer with that thousand young people that we hire in a police department do DYCD, that partnership, we do a number of different focus groups to find out what what kind of programming that they look for.

2:22:39

What we did with the aviation program, when we just started on the Polo Grounds, the young people wanted that type of programming and working with Commissioner Keith Howard and his team at DYCD, we was able to get that off the ground.

Rita C. Joseph

2:22:52

So, do you find that these programming, does it deter young people from going back to the life of crime you're trying to save them from?

Alden Foster

2:23:00

Absolutely, and it and I want to shine a light on some of the success stories with that because a lot of when you talk about school safety agents, which the Community Affairs Bureau

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