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Michael Blake: “Brownsville Safety Alliance did a collaboration where for a…”

Featuring: Michael Blake, Democratic | Former Candidate, U.S. House New York, District 15

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Michael Blake Discusses Mayoral Candidacy and Reform Agenda with Citizens Union

Published | Video Starts at 11:45

And I do believe you can achieve that by looking at a model that we've seen happen in Brooklyn, for example, in the last two weeks where Brownsville Safety Alliance did a collaboration where for a week 911 calls were going to the Violence Interrupters. as opposed to just to the nypd. Now, when there were serious items and offenses that were happening, it would still go to nypd. (11:45–11:54)

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Asserts that a collaboration in Brownsville redirected 911 calls to Violence Interrupters as a model of shared accountability.

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