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7-07-2021 3:57am
Yonkers Police Department Commissioner #JohnMuellers Keeps Saying Violent Crime Is Down And That We Live In "The Safest City"...
John Rivera
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#OMG.... Yonkers Police Department Commissioner #JohnMuellers Keeps Saying Violent Crime Is Down And That We Live In "The Safest City"...
#SMH....But Governor Andrew Cuomo Just Declared A #StateOfEmergency And Is Declaring A War On Gun Violence Newburgh, Poughkeepsie, Kingston, Monticello, New Rochelle and #Yonkers
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Governor Andrew Cuomo Says The #YonkersPD Is Wrong And We Do Not Live In "The Safest City"
PRESS RELEASE: Saying if we could defeat COVID-19 we can defeat gun violence, Governor #AndrewCuomo, declared war on the scourge, which is particularly devastating to black and brown communities.
NEW YORK: The governor signs legislation declaring a disaster emergency on gun violence and announced a multi-pronged approach to put a lid on it.
QUOTE: “If you can beat COVID, you can beat gun violence, you can beat poverty, you can beat drug abuse; you can beat whatever you want to beat. We just have to want to do it,” #GovernorCuomo told an audience of community leaders at #JohnJayCollege in New York City.
The governor committed $138 million in state funds to the efforts.
The plan ranges from providing alternatives for young people to avoid street crime, like jobs and recreational activities; mapping and targeting high-crime areas; getting illegal guns off the streets; intervening with victims right at hospitals with interveners like with the SNUG program (SNUG spells GUNS backwards); community engagement; and building police-community relations.
In recent months, gun violence has been on the rise in this area in #Newburgh, #Poughkeepsie, #Kingston, #Monticello, #NewRochelle and The #CityOfYonkers.
Many communities are already doing what the governor said.
Yonkers has the SNUG program and the #YPD crime mapping to target crime-riddled areas, but refuses to share the information and monthly crime statistics with the community.
Nor, will the #YonkersPolice post a crime blotter of police calls and arrests on its website, as Mueller keeps aying violent crime is down on his watch - but Gov. Andrew Cuomo is willing to tell the people the truth.
