Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s administration will be sending a newly created team of street outreach workers to Chicago neighborhoods during the Memorial Day weekend to help with the city’s violence prevention efforts.
Thank you for supporting our journalism. This article is available exclusively for our subscribers, who help fund our work at the Chicago Tribune.Gov. J.B. Pritzker talks with Chicago police Cmdr. Andre Parham, 15th District, before a pre-inauguration event for Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson outside Michele Clark Magnet High School on May 15, 2023.
The announcement of the strategy comes ahead of the Memorial Day holiday weekend, the unofficial start to summer and a time of year when Chicago has historically seen especially high tallies of shootings.The new unit also signals the approach that Pritzker and new Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson have said they want to take in addressing crime in the city, which has seen an increase of gun violence since the COVID-19 pandemic began in 2020.
“The most important work we do is keeping our communities safe, and this is another important step towards addressing violence and conflict through research-based, community-focused approaches,” Pritzker said in a statement. The “peacekeepers” in the new unit receive training in areas including crowd de-escalation tactics and crisis interruption. State officials said the training is aimed at helping the unit respond to mass gatherings like the ones
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