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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For those people claiming violence interrupters are a failure, please look up their combined budget (hint: tiny) and the MPD budget (hint: huge with tons of overtime) and tell me how you logically conclude that.[/quote]

For those who think they're a success, point to one metric that proves that. Just one. And if you're going to point to a reduction in crime in the small areas they serve, please include the areas that directly surround it. Because the crime just moves to where the violence interruptors aren't (if it moves at all, which it mostly doesn't).[/quote]

How about we fund it seriously for more than a year or two to find out.  Police have had how long now?  And they still haven't figured it out?

You all started condemning it before it even started, so it's hard to take you seriously.[/quote]

Violence interrupter programs have been around for 30+ years.  The idea that you just heard about it so therefore it's a fresh idea is pretty illuminating to the kinds of people that are committed to defending this nonsense.[/quote]

So cool, at what levels has DC been funding it over the last 30 years?[/quote]

Do YOU know the answer to this? If you’re the same poster, you seem to be attacking JLG/violence interruptors detractors by asking about data, but you’re providing none yourself.

As PPs have said, violence interrupters have been around for a long time. Every time a shooting has occurred on Kennedy St. in the last 10 years, the council member’s office response is, we need to ramp up violence interrupters. This was the response when a shooting occurred at 3 p.m. on a weekday on Kennedy, right outside the daycare where my kids were that very day (and where the teachers took the kids out for walks). Touting violence interrupters as an accomplishment is not enough. [/quote]

1. You (or one of your crime crime crime buddies) pointed to the guardian angels, who are volunteers.  The recent round of funding for violence interrupters is about a few years old.  I remember the roll out.  And they are still at minimal levels unlike MPD.

2. JLG hasn't been in office for 10 years. Are you taking about Brandon Todd also?  It's hard to have a serious argument with you when you're so off base.

3. If you actually listen to JLG, read anything she puts out, go to any event on public safety, she has violence interrupters as one component of a bigger system that includes (gasp!) MPD, OAG, USAO, etc.

So you're just not worth having a serious discussion with.[/quote]

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