Upcoming S.O.S. Shooting Responses
Sadly, there were two shootings this past week in the 77th Precinct. One occurred on November 5th, at Troy Avenue and St.Johns Place, and one occurred on November 7th, in Brower Park. With these two shootings we’ve now experienced 66 shootings in our neighborhood since January 2010.
S.O.S. Crown Heights organizes a shooting response for every single shooting we learn about in the 77th Precinct. During a shooting response, we make the statement that these shootings and killings are unacceptable. They last approximately 30 minutes and acknowlege the tragedy of the violence and send a hopeful message that together we can transform the community. Please help us stop the spread of violence. We want to make Crown Heights a safer and healthier neighborhood for everyone- a place where shooting a gun is simply never even considered.
Please note the times and locations for the two responses:
Date: Thursday, November 11th, 2010 (Veteran’s Day)
Time: 3:00pm
Location: Troy Avenue and St. John’s Place
Date: Friday, November 12th, 2010
Time: 6:00pm
Location: Kingston Avenue and Park Place
Also upcoming, we are screening several anti-gun violence films made by local filmmakers and holding a discussion about what we can do to transform the community.
Date: Thursday, November 18th, 2010
Time: 7:00pm
Location: LaunchPad, 721 Franklin Avenue
Co-sponsors: DCTV, Kings County Cinema Society, American Friends Service Committee, LaunchPad, New Yorkers Against Gun Violence and S.O.S. Crown Heights
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All best,
Amy and Lisa
p.s. We need your help in creating new public education materials. We are holding a contest to get talented young people and community members to help us produce materials that will be used in our campaigns. To learn more about our contest, check out our blog (soscrownheights.blogspot.com).
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How is the success of the program measured? And I don’t just mean on a theoretical basis, but I am curious what specific goals are set and how you quantify the results.
What are the benchmarks? Is it about outreach? Reduction in shootings?
S.O.S. Crown Heights is an evidence-based replication of a statistically demonstrated model successfully pioneered in Chicago (Ceasefire) that was demonstrated to reduce gun violence between 40-70% in the neighborhoods studied. We have an internal researcher who tracks all the work we do and the impact and we are additionally part of an external federal evaluation. As we are able to quantify our results we will happily share this information.
In short, our goal is to reduce gun violence in Crown Heights. We will know we are successful if the number of shootings and killings go down. We have already had a number of success stories and violence interventions and we hope that our work will continue to make Crown Heights a safer place for our children to grow up. We will be having monthly open public meetings to inform people in a more in-depth manner about our strategies and methods as well as to answer any questions about the program.
Impressive! Are you all adopting the entire Ceasefire model? Please do keep us posted on the impact and the monthly meetings.