QUEST, which provides young offenders with an alternative to detention, is featured as an important element in New York City’s efforts to keep low-risk offenders out of “high-risk situations.” As the city’s Criminal Justice Coordinator John Feinblatt explains in the NY1 story: “We won’t allow dangerous kids to remain on the streets, but we also don’t want to separate low-risk youth from their families and their schooling a day more than we have to.”