What’s the Police Department’s Crime Fighting Strategy?

With the latest figures showing an uptick in murders compared to the same period in 2023, the Commissioner of Police is crafting a proactive crime-fighting strategy to prevent this year’s numbers from exceeding last year’s count. He is relying on the Leadership Intervention Unit to ensure that interventions and mediations occur whenever tensions flare between rival gangs.

 

Isani Cayetano

“You’re going into the fourth quarter of this year, what is the outlook?  Is it that the police, in trying to keep these numbers down, will take on now a more proactive, as opposed to a more reactive approach to policing?”

 

Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police

“Certainly, and that’s my thing to them this morning, that we need to be more proactive in terms of our approach.  We don’t want to respond.  I even said to them, if it is that they hear that there is an issue brewing between two different gang groups, we must step in, do intervention, do mediation, get LIU involved, get Mr. Nuri involved.  Let’s see how we can stem that before it reaches a stage where somebody’s getting killed because once somebody’s getting killed the problem becomes greater because then the other side wants to retaliate and so we need to do what we can to avoid getting to that stage.”