Several city leaders not sold on success of group violence intervention program
In the first year of implementation, group violence intervention program leaders believe they’re seeing success.
“We’re seeing the results in the community and I think the numbers speak for themselves,” group violence intervention program manager Dondre Jefferson said.
“Convey these messages of enforcement and a helping hand and they’re sort of the cornerstone of [group violence intervention]-type programs around the country and currently we are not able to get as many people into those call-in’s as we need to,” said Josh Crawford, director of criminal justice initiatives at the Center for Opportunity.