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Mayor Woodfin details public-safety push: focused deterrence, hospital intervention training and SET team results
Summary
At the March 18 Birmingham City Council meeting, Mayor Woodfin outlined a multi-pronged public-safety strategy including a focused deterrent approach, hospital-based violence intervention training, expanded street outreach and the city—s special enforcement team (SET) arrest figures.
Mayor Woodfin on Tuesday updated the Birmingham City Council on the city—s public-safety response, saying the administration is combining enforcement, intervention and community-based programs to reduce violence.
The mayor said the city is implementing a focused-deterrent strategy with the Birmingham Police Department and local partners; Chief Pickett and BPD leadership have been involved since January. "There—s an actual carrot side to that as well as far as the resource piece of giving people an opportunity to get out of that street life," Woodfin said, describing job and reentry supports that would accompany targeted policing.
The mayor also discussed a hospital-based violence-intervention program. He said a memorandum of…
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