Five Days Without Cops: Could Brooklyn Policing Experiment be a 'Model for the Future'? [thecity.nyc]

Rafael Maravilla(PACEs Connection Staff) 1/6/2110:04 AM

By Yoav Gonen and Eileen Grench, The City, January 3, 2021

A Brooklyn community’s experiment to deal with a longstanding crime hotspot in a busy commercial corridor took a new approach last month: They pulled back on policing.

Cops from Brownsville’s 73rd Precinct withdrew from their regular posts on Mother Gaston Boulevard for parts of a five-day stretch in early December, while violence interrupter and crisis management groups watched over the two-block zone between Pitkin and Sutter avenues.

“This was ‘defund the police’ in actuality,” said Assemblymember Latrice Walker (D-Brooklyn), who grew up in the nearby Glenmore Plaza Houses.

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