BALTIMORE — Baltimore's Safe Streets program is moving, when it comes to which office manages it.
Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh is shifting the violence prevention program from the supervision of the Health Department to be run directly out of her Office of Criminal Justice.
Safe Streets is not a law enforcement effort. Calling themselves violence interrupters, Baltimore's Safe Streets workers try to de-escalate incidents in four city neighborhoods before violence erupts. They follow a public health model and have long operated under the Health Department, but soon they'll be under the control of the mayor's office.
"We are going to be very careful about how we roll the program out because we believe the model does work and we are not trying to change the model," Pugh said.
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""We are going to be very careful about how we roll the program out because we believe the model does work and we are not trying to change the model," Pugh said."
ReplyDeleteIt WORKS?!?!?! Maybe if you don't count homicides. I will grant you that the Health Department can't do much for people who are already dead (shot?) but just what does this new group hope to accomplish other than being in charge?
Safe streets in Baltimore, what a joke.
ReplyDeleteHow come we don't hear about the "safe streets" program in Salisbury any longer?
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