$38M is going for labs in 20 states to test the 56,000 unprocessed rape kits that have been discovered sitting unprocessed in police warehouses all around the country . The US Attorney General is contributing another $41 million to this backlog clearing project.
In New York City, police are getting smartphones from Mr. Vance’s fund: the biggest communication upgrade since walkie-talkies were purchased decades ago. He’s also introducing crime prevention programs, like sports in housing projects and family wellness education. The New York Times reports,
Some of the proposals being considered amount to social engineering aimed at addressing early traumas that studies have shown lead to crime. They include providing nurses to fractured families with babies and spotting troubled children in foster care and juvenile detention centers, then steering them into counseling. “There is a real interest in keeping people out of the system from the get-go,” Mr. Jacobson said.
Hat tip to Hemant Wadhwani for the excellent find. Photo source: New York County District Attorney’s Office
money is NOT the answer to transforming Policing in NYC….
It helps! Have to start somewhere and it will grow from there.
Stella Dixon-Draper : well it will require a bigger budget IF this is the ‘supposed’ answer’ to the problem because this means all WHITE Officers must first undergo a fucking LOBOTOMY (which is quite expensive)……… 😉
@ J. Harding. Lolol! Agreed, but keep hope alive!
U know what time it is…….
I DO!
“I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.”
~Leonardo da Vinci
Promising story. Let’s hope.