The residents of Brownsville are benefiting from the renovation of Betsy Head Park as a safe space for young people.
How can police and community leaders in Brownsville stop this trend? If you ask them, the solution lies in partnerships and creating safe spaces for city youth, CBS2's Kristine Johnson reported Monday.What may appear as a typical practice session is actually crime prevention. Time spent there is time not spent on streets that surround the park, a neighborhood where bullets fly from guns held by criminals.
O'Connor said he believes youth outreach is essential to drive down crime. So when the privately funded teams take the field, the NYPD has cops on patrol. It also creates an opportunity for police assigned to the neighborhood a chance to interact, even play. "We need to be in places where kids are when things aren't wrong, when it's just, 'Hey, we're having practice on Wednesday night. There's the cops again.' They're in the park, they're walking around, they're saying hello. They're throwing the football around," O'Connor said.
The same effort is happening just over a mile away in East New York. A first-of-its-kind community center is fully staffed by the NYPD. Basketball, martial arts, even a recording studio is offered there, but perhaps most influential is the one-on-one time. Cops and kids bonding over video games and conversation."Would you miss this place if it closed?" Johnson asked.Site director Monique Porter said this, too, is crime prevention at work.
"I've seen the anger disappear. I've seen kids who don't really have anywhere to go after school and don't want to go home," Porter said.
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