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Mayor's public-safety adviser says gun-problem analysis due; GVI partnerships expanding to hospitals
Summary
Darren Goodes said the county's Gun Violence Intervention program is adopting national best practices and a gun-problem analysis will identify 'trigger pullers' with results expected in roughly 90 days; he described MOUs with hospitals to restore intervention specialists at Le Bonheur and Regional One.
Darren Goodes, the mayor's public-safety adviser, told the commission the county's Gun Violence Intervention (GBI) program has adopted national best practices and is working with subject-matter experts on a gun-problem analysis intended to identify the most active shooters and crime drivers. "We should be getting some of those results back here in with 90 days or so in the very near future," Goodes said.
Goodes detailed partnerships with hospitals and community organizations to place violence-intervention specialists in medical settings, citing preliminary meetings with Le Bonheur and Regional One to negotiate MOUs for those specialists to return to hospital floors. He described multi-agency coordination — Memphis Police Department, mayor's office, U.S. Attorney's Office and other federal partners — and characterized the approach as combining enforcement and community-based services to reduce shootings.
Commissioners probed whether arrests followed by quick releases undercut intervention work; Goodes said federal charges in some cases are strengthening prosecutions while the joint office provides community services for people not prosecuted or awaiting outcomes.
Goodes also highlighted success stories from the GBI program and urged improved data capture to measure prevention outcomes (how many lives are saved or shootings prevented) so stakeholders can quantify program impact and pursue funding.
