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2 Stop The Violence Women Leaders Spearhead Organizations To Increase The Peace and Help Stop Violent Crime in NYC
By Kamau Austin, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief, The Southeast Queens Scoop
We constantly hear the question from conservatives and apologists for over aggressive police tactics, which too often result in deadly consequences, in the Black community - why don't Black organizations focus on "Black on Black crime?" Well there are at least a couple organizations which do exactly that in the NYC.
These two groups Life Camp Inc., of Southeast Queens, and Street Corner Resources of Harlem, along with many other persons in the community have contributed to a deep drop in violent crimes in NYC especially over the last few years. The number of gun related killings in NYC this year (2017) is under 300 in a city of about 8.5 million people. And if current trends continue the year will close with it being the safest year in NYC for - about 50 years!
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Erica Ford of Southeast Queens (left) and Ieshua Sekou of Upper Harlem (lower right) are
leaders of 2 different stop the violence and increase the peace type organizations |
