New York City's new $485 million plan to curb gun violence includes supporting teens who aren’t on track to graduate high school, upgrading public housing, job training in neighborhoods with high poverty rates and better mental health care in city jails.
Make your contribution now and help Gothamist thrive in 2023.Mayor Eric Adams unveiled a $485 million plan to curb gun violence Monday, including more support for teens who aren’t on track to graduate high school, upgrades to public housing, job training for young people in neighborhoods with high poverty rates and better mental health care in city jails.
Liz Glazer, former director of the Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice, said the plan’s success would depend on its execution. Those areas will create their own neighborhood safety action plans, which Mitchell said would be uniquely tailored to address the needs in those communities. The mayor’s office is also rolling out meetings called “Community CompStat” in those precincts, which will bring together police and community stakeholders to review data and talk about local public safety concerns.
Researcher Jeffrey Butts said the city should partner with a third-party to monitor and analyze the data in a way that is “systematic and unbiased.” Butts noted that only analyzing neighborhoods with high rates of violence could also skew the metrics, because they’re statistically more likely to drop.
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