“If you’re trying to reach out to the young people most likely to be involved in violence, they hate the police,” Vitale said.
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And getting a flyer on a table about some job training program that’s already full is not going to be enough.”Īnother concern: If the initiative is led by police rather than by the community, it could quell buy-in from some residents. Elsewhere’s three stories of dancefloors and stages have been home to expansive sonic offerings for all New Yorkers to explore. Working with designer Sarah Frankel, we fabricated the stage wall at Elsewhere, an arts/music venue in Bushwick, Brooklyn, produced by the. “I mean, right now people are staring eviction in the face, they’ve lost their jobs. Five rooms, three performance stages, world-class audio-visual equipment, and 24,000 square feet of indoor and open-air possibilities. “Just setting up some tables and doing some outreach is not going to be enough if there aren’t robust new services available for people to deal with their very real problems,” he added. “A short-term intervention can create a little blip, but it’s only going to be sustainable if we can really begin to get to the root of the problem,” he told THE CITY while noting that community organizations need more financial support. He said putting too much weight on the small-scale success in Brownsville could place future efforts at risk for backlash if there is a violent incident. Still, expansion of the program poses nagging questions for police reform advocates like Alex Vitale, coordinator of the Policing and Social Justice Project at Brooklyn College. "It has my full support, and that's all that matters" - Yoav Gonen January 8, 2021 Mayor de Blasio on whether the NYPD supports a pilot program that saw police briefly withdraw from their regular posts on a high-crime stretch in Brooklyn and violence interrupters move in: Elsewhere is a 24,000+ square foot event space, music venue, cultural hub & nightclub in Brooklyn with (5) distinct spaces, including a 3,000 sq ft rooftop with. The Brownsville Safety Alliance pilot program left many advocates and politicians in the community optimistic about what local Assemblymember Latrice Walker (D-Brooklyn) called “defund the police in actuality.”ĭuring those five days there were no valid 911 calls, officials noted, the only case in which a cop could enter the community-led zone. “We used the flood areas with police when I was there, that wasn’t the answer.” ‘Robust New Services’ Needed Elsewhere, NY 2014 1 h 29 m IMDb RATING 7.
“That’s the focus that we have, the mindset that we have in moving forward,” she added. In an interview with THE CITY after the Council session, Holmes praised Deputy Inspector Terrell Anderson, the new commanding officer of the 73rd Precinct, for “developing relationships with the community and let them decide where they needed their police.” The exchange marked a rare moment of agreement during the meeting.Ĭouncil members and advocates had spent most of the hearing sparring with NYPD and de Blasio administration representatives over reform efforts following last year’s Black Lives Matter protests.
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