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Discussion on youth program discrepancies and rising detention rates
6:42:42
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Council Member Stevens and DA Clark engage in a discussion about discrepancies in youth programs between youth part and family court, as well as the alarming increase in youth detention rates.
- Stevens expresses concern about the increasing number of young people in secure detention
- She emphasizes the potential long-term consequences of high recidivism rates
- Stevens requests information from other panel members about their approaches to youth justice issues
- The discussion highlights the urgency of addressing youth justice as a crisis
Althea Stevens
6:42:42
Because that's that's one of things I've been talking with the advocates and providers about is just the discrepancies of the programs that's available in the youth part that's not in the family court, like, and it's just so different.
6:42:52
And that's one of the things that for me is I'm really trying to look to, like, solve for x, like, do we move forward because this has been a real problem.
6:42:59
We have an increased number of young people who are in secure detention, which is alarming for me and it should be alarming for everyone here and I know everyone loves to you know talk about justice and all this, but some of the justices like we are failing these kids and I say we as everyone because these numbers are going up and we're creating a generation of people who are gonna have high recidivative basis recidivist rates in the future.
6:43:20
And so for me, that's why I was really interested to hear more about this program and I guess into the panel and I guess very succinctly because I know everybody's tired at this point, especially chair who's been up here for a while now, to just talk about what are some things that you're doing around this youth issue that we're having because we are seeing a number and I know because I'm in The Bronx, know that like Darcelle has, Dia Clark has a youth advisory board and like she said, we work really closely with them and all the things.
6:43:47
And so I'm also just trying to see what other folks are doing around the youth part as well because this is up to me.
6:43:54
It is a crisis that no one is talking about and, you know, I know, like, we're we're we're fighting for all these other things, this is something that's near and dear to my heart and wanted just to hear a little bit what you guys are doing.
Eric Gonzalez
6:44:04
So in Brooklyn, I'll start, we have a designated group in my office to what DA Clark is trying to create in Bronx County.