J’Ouvert and the West Indian Day Parade returned to Brooklyn this past weekend for the first time since the start of the pandemic, and officials said the event went smoothly — largely because community groups and city agencies worked together.
Officials at the press conference on Tuesday said they spent extra time planning this year and worked more closely with community members and violence interrupters to prevent shootings. Mayor Eric Adams, who has criticized the police department for squandering city resources by oversaturating major events, said fewer officers were deployed more efficiently this year.
“A big goal of ours going into this weekend certainly was to recognize the deep meaning of what this weekend represents for the Caribbean community, but also to allow celebration,” said Assistant Chief Michael Kemper, who supervises south Brooklyn. “And very importantly, how can we as a department achieve this by avoiding unnecessary community-police conflict?”
Kemper said he used to work at the event early in his career without knowing what it was about. This year, he said every officer assigned to J’Ouvert learned about its history and met with local elected officials and clergy to better understand the environment they were patrolling. NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell noted that the lack of violence at this year’s celebration followed a citywide trend for the holiday weekend. She called 2022 the “third-best Labor Day weekend this city has seen related to violence in the modernNeither Sewell nor the NYPD explained what she specifically meant by “third-best” or shared which years ranked as first- and second-best.
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