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New city initiative plans to curb gun violence in Brooklyn

amNY

Violence prevention groups like Save Our Streets will help lead the efforts toward ending gun violence in Brooklyn, with a goal to "saturate the community with the violence interrupters and outreach workers and all the members of the cure violence team,” said Ife Charles, our deputy director for S.O.S.

How the Police Could Be Defunded

The New Yorker

Anti-violence and community-based organizations in New York City present an alternative approach to public safety. Save Our Streets "helped reduce shootings in the South Bronx area where they work by sixty-three per cent," the New Yorker reports in a profile of our work.

Project Reset is Taking Arrested New Yorkers to the Museum Instead of Court

NBCLX

Art is a powerful vehicle for racial and social justice. Project Reset partners with Brooklyn Museum to offer individuals with low-level cases the chance to dispose of the case through the study and creation of art that explores perspectives. In this video, teaching artist, Sophia Dawson, and two participants, Denagee and Aristides, share their experiences with NBCLX.

Restorative Justice Students Speak Their Truth on Racial Injustice, Win NPR Contest

NPR

"Climate change is racial injustice." Taking that as their topic, students in our Brooklyn-based Restorative Justice in Schools program placed first out of 2,200 submissions in NPR's Student Podcast Challenge. Read more about the students, and hear their award-winning episode, in this NPR profile. "Racism is like a tree," explains one of the students, "and police brutality and environmental racism are just a couple of branches off that giant tree."

Men in Color Group Wins NPR’s Student Podcast Challenge

The Brian Lehrer Show

Out of 2,200 submissions across the United States, "The Flossy Podcast," created by the Men in Color group, a project of our Restorative Justice in Schools program, won NPR's Student Podcast Challenge. Students Jaheim and Joshua and teacher Mischael joined WNYC's Brian Lehrer to discuss their winning episode on climate change and environmental racism.

Brooklyn’s Problem-Solving Courts Experience a Smooth Reopening

Brooklyn Eagle

New York City's problem-solving courts reopened on May 4. In Brooklyn, this includes our mental health court, presided by Judge D'Emic, along with a treatment court and domestic violence court, which provide defendants with services and mental health treatment to aid their rehabilitation under a single judge.

Launch of Project Reset on Staten Island Offers Non-Jail Option

SILive.com

In partnership with the Staten Island District Attorney's Office, Project Reset has expanded to serve clients on Staten Island. Now operating in four boroughs in New York City, Project Reset is a diversion program offering a new response to a low-level arrest that is proportionate, effective, and restorative.

What Will Prisons Look Like After COVID-19?

USA Today

In a call to "create a better, more holistic approach to justice in America," an opinion piece in USA Today includes our Red Hook Community Justice Center and Harlem Community Justice Center as examples of restorative justice programs that focus on healing and break the cycle of justice-involvement.

Syracuse Peacemaking Hits The Streets To Hand Out Masks

Spectrum News Syracuse

The Near Westside Peacemaking Project already knows community members from their restorative justice and crime prevention programs. Now, our team is visiting those same neighborhoods to hand out masks and gloves to anyone who needs them.

Anti-violence Work Continues, Despite Ongoing Pandemic

News 12 Brooklyn

The anti-violence work of Save Our Streets is continuing online during the coronavirus pandemic. By turning to social media, S.O.S. and RISE Project are offering virtual workshops on topics like abuse and intimate partner violence.

How to Meet Court-Ordered Obligations During Coronavirus

The Appeal

"The focus right now appears to be on safety and not just strict compliance monitoring,” says David Lucas, a clinical adviser at the Center for Court Innovation, on how drug courts across the country are responding to COVID-19.

Supervised Release Helps Monitor People Released from Jail to Slow COVID-19

Gothamist

Our director Courtney Bryan tells Gothamist that our supervised release program continues to operate, currently with 1,500+ NYC participants. Without the program, many would be on Rikers, where officials are trying to lower the population to slow the spread of COVID-19.

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