{"id":2525,"date":"2020-12-10T17:23:58","date_gmt":"2020-12-11T01:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=2525"},"modified":"2020-12-10T17:35:09","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T01:35:09","slug":"violence-interrupters-a-story-you-cant-make-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=2525","title":{"rendered":"“Violence Interrupters” — A Story You Can’t Make Up"},"content":{"rendered":"

What in the world is a \u201cviolence interrupter\u201d? If you thought that might be a euphemism for a law enforcement officer\u2014or maybe a prison guard\u2014you\u2019d be wrong. Here\u2019s what Wikipedia says it is: \u201cViolence interruption<\/b>\u00a0is a community-based approach to reducing communal and interpersonal violence that treats violence as a public health problem.\u00a0<\/sup><\/sup>Individuals providing violence interruption services are known as\u00a0violence interrupters.\u201d\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

OK, sounds a little nutty but probably harmless\u00a0 —\u00a0 until you see the rest of it, courtesy of Steve Hayward’s note<\/a> on PowerLine.<\/p>\n

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Here’s the punchline:<\/p>\n

Lots of \u201cviolence interrupters\u201d appear to be ex-gang members and other such individuals who have \u201cstreet cred.\u201d I\u2019m guessing this is what the \u201cdefund the police\u201d people have in mind as an alternative to Officer Murphy on the beat. Well, if so it\u2019s not working very well:<\/p>\n

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DC Violence Interrupter Charged in 2017 Homicide<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

A violence interrupter with the D.C. Attorney General\u2019s Office is charged in a 2017 homicide, the Metropolitan Police Department said. . .<\/p>\n

Police executing a D.C. Superior Court warrant arrested 39-year-old Cotey Wynn of Southeast D.C. Friday, D.C. police said. He is charged with second-degree murder while armed.<\/p>\n

Wynn was under Pretrial Services Agency\u2019s supervision when he was arrested, police said.\u00a0[In other words, he was out on no-bail for some previous offense.]<\/em>\u00a0His arrest history includes felony murder, first-degree murder, possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine and distribution of a controlled substance.\u00a0Wynn is an employee and violence interrupter with the attorney general\u2019s Cure the Streets program.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sounds like Wynn\u2019s experience made him the model employee for the program! Or maybe you can just chalk this up to a new application of the \u201cit takes a thief\u201d theory.<\/p>\n

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The woke among us seem to have forgotten that communities have police for a reason.\u00a0 There are bad guys out there who are not really interested in getting a job and saving up their money.\u00a0 They’re interested in taking what you have, by stealth if possible but by force if not.\u00a0 This is not a new or isolated phenomenon; indeed it’s existed worldwide from the beginning of communal life.\u00a0 You can’t make these guys go away by “re-imagining” police work or implementing “restorative justice,” whatever that means.\u00a0 You have a chance of making them go away, or at least making them think twice about belting Grandma over the head in order to get her purse, if you have police on the beat who are there to make it possible for her and you to live in peace and under democratically adopted law.<\/p>\n

The idea that gang hoodlums can fill this role is part of the insanity that now goes by the name “criminal justice reform.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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