“This is not the reason for creating security: Trump’s DC crackdown will not help. U.S. crimes

Donald TrumpHyperbola Carving Crimes in major U.S. cities deploy On the surface, the National Guard in Washington, D.C. has fought against it, reigniting decades of debate about crime, violence, and what policies and methods can be resolved.

The US president quoted cities such as Auckland,,,,, Philadelphia and Chicago As an example of a place where crime and violence are overwhelmed. He proposed more and more militarized law enforcement, More money and legal protection For police, it is the most effective way to solve homicides and other violent crimes.

But for workers who prevent violence, recent statements do not appear to be out of concern and concern, while those of low-income black and Latino victims With a large share In the crimes of the state, in order to undermine and refute the progress made by community groups.

Advocates believe that the government emphasizes law enforcement and prosecution because the only way to stop crime will make these groups useless through the violent and property crime cycles both the Republican and democratic governments face.

“Police is about responding. But that’s not the reason to create security,” said Aqeela Sherrills, the long-term head of community violence intervention in Los Angeles. “Many of our urban communities are war zones because they lack investment in infrastructure and programming. It’s frustrating to hear the misinformation from the U.S. president.”

Sherrills began his career in Watt’s violence prevention in the early 1990s. He has been the leadership force of several organizations since then, working with a small portion of the city’s population to prevent crime and support victims of crime. He said he has seen the greatest success of reducing violence during his tenure, through training local nonprofits, community leaders and officials on different violence community prevention models, and then allowing them to build custom strategies from there.

Various models have achieved significant success over the past few decades. Some deploy violence prevention workers to middle schools and high schools. In other programs, they use probation officials as a channel to connect with young people who illegally carry and use firearms. After the shooting, some plans have taken workers to hospitals to prevent retaliatory violence. Some models rely on partnerships in the police community, others do not participate in the police at all.

However, most plans focus on connecting with most young men and teenage boys whose conflicts spill over city streets, traumatizing the entire community.

This method shows the prospect, Research showsBrooklyn Community in Baltimore in 2024 No murder in a year After deploying a program called “Safe Street”. Cities such as Oakland, Seattle and Philadelphia, where city leaders invest in similar plans to reduce gun violence, have suffered a decline in homicides as plans flourish, according to the Association of Major City Chiefs. Violent Crime Investigation.

While the reasons for the ups and downs and flows of homicide cannot be reduced to a plan or strategy, those who work to build these plans have been fighting for credit and recognition.

During the Biden administration, they got it. Their approach finally established federal support by establishing an office for the prevention of gun violence and the federal government for community prevention teams working on the field. Over the past few years, plans across the United States have expanded as more municipalities have established their own offices for violence prevention.

But these insights do not seem to be informed Trump administrationSherrills added.

“He didn’t read the data, he didn’t look at trends and reports, he just responded to the knee,” he said. “It’s shortsighted because they only talk about one aspect of our criminal legal system.”

The latest crime debate comes after nearly four months Trump administration Nearly $170 million in grants cut from the gun violence prevention organization, including several groups established and co-founded by Sherry City, who had to lay off several employees, dealing a serious blow to the critical summer show.

Fredrick Womack Lost 20% of its budget Due to April cuts.

Womack said he was frustrated when he heard the list of cities that Trump picked out because they were all cities of black leaders who invested in community violence intervention. He said the call for an increase in police and potential military stances shows a disconnect between the Hall of Power and the needs of people most affected by violent crime.

“How can we support the victims when the military needs someone who is compassionate about what they are going through?” he asked. “I know people need justice, but they also need support. They need recovery and counseling.

He continued: “They won’t be involved in the project and ask people how they live. But they’ll look at a guy who lived two miles away last week and say, ‘We have a crime problem’.”

Womack founded Good Action in 2013, and since then, he and his small staff and volunteers work with teenagers and young people of the volunteers to be responsible for most of the violence in the city, and give them weird work and bring them to the Civil Rights Museum so that they can understand where they come from and gain community awareness. Womack’s work makes a difference: The years since the pandemic (a surge in gun violence nationwide) have begun killing rates, a changing city Officials attributed to Partly based on the work of community groups, including good action and their cooperation with the police.

cCommunity leaders also believe that not only will Trump be less efficient, but it is not intended to help people most affected by violence. On August 12 Press Conferencemost recently Fox News host Jeanine Pirro appointment Prosecutors in Washington, D.C., U.S. believe that Trump’s remarks about crime and his administration’s violent attitude in DC are carried out in the name of victims. Pirro is a poster of most black teenagers and children who have been violently killed by guns, and believes that including DC’s policies, including DC’s Youth Rehabilitation Act, will only be timid.

“I assure you that every one of these people is shot to death by someone who feels they will never be caught,” Pirro told reporters.

When reporters asked about the root causes of addressing crime and violence and the root causes of recent cuts to community-based programs, Pirro believes her focus is punitive rather than preventive.

For Sacramento-based victim and advocate for violence prevention, this kind of sentiment is common among conservatives, but missed it.

“It’s deaf and contradictory. The root cause is the reason we have victims,” Schenk said. “In my experience [crime and violence] From systemic oppression. This means that if a family cannot raise their own children, they will steal, rob, or commit some kind of fraud to survive and survive. ”

Schenk worked in the community advocacy field for more than three decades, at that time when the school area, local spiritual and physical health systems received a level of investment that matched the scale of the problem, the most successful youth crime, shootings and other forms of violence occurred.

“When we get support, we see the greatest success – from schools to law enforcement to churches – their support allows us to make a bigger scale.”

Despite comments and diverted by the Trump administration, Sherrills said the field of violence prevention will continue to flourish as federal support and charitable groups increase.

“We know we are in a challenging time, but it’s about double the success and make sure we keep winning,” he said. “We will continue to see a trend of violence due to the work that practitioners are doing on the scene. People are tired of killing and dying people and are looking for other ways to create better ways to navigate conflicts so as not to lead to violence.”