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Advisory council debates CVI models, police community units and workforce referrals for at-risk youth
Summary
Council members compared local policing units and Baltimore's community-violence-intervention (CVI) approaches, discussed the role of trust and street outreach workers, and proposed employer-connected workforce referrals and family supports as parts of a broader strategy.
Council members spent a substantial portion of the meeting comparing community-violence-intervention (CVI) strategies and policing models and discussing nonpolice interventions, workforce referral systems and family-level supports.
Participants reviewed what they described as Baltimore’s recent model — reallocating responsibilities for a small group of officers to specialize in handoffs to community providers — and weighed it against Providence’s current structure. Providence police representatives described two local units: the Violent Crime Task Force and a Community Response Team (CRT). The meeting recorded that the violent crime task…
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