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Buffalo Police talk strategy to stem violent crime surge after 2 fatal shootings Sunday
The COVID pandemic was cited as an interruption in anti-violence efforts. Two more fatal shootings were reported Sunday in the City of Buffalo. Author: Ron Plants Updated: 11:41 PM EDT June 27, 2021
BUFFALO, N.Y. With two more fatal shootings reported Sunday, the Buffalo violent crime index keeps rising at an alarming rate, just like many other cities across the country.
The Buffalo Citi-Stats program shows there is an average of 50 homicides in the city each year. The database shows there were 44 homicides in 2019, but it jumped to 65 in 2020. The Buffalo News reports that these two recent cases pushed the rate to 47 so far this year, at the halfway mark in June.
WBFO s Michael Mroziak reports.
Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown, when speaking of the challenges of policing, said the city has made police reforms and have some underway now, including the one introduced Thursday inside the Community Health Center of Buffalo.
Dior Lindsey, FamilyWorks Buffalo Program Manager at the Osborne Association, speaks Thursday during the introduction of a new partnership aimed at minimizing child trauma resulting from the arrest of parents or other engagements with police.
Credit Michael Mroziak, WBFO We think that this program, Safeguarding the Children of Arrested Parents, is critically important to strengthening the community-police relationship, Brown said. We think it s essential to reducing trauma in children in our community, and putting children of parents who have been arrested on a healthier path to success in the community.
Buffalo Police Department to be trained on how to arrest parents in front of their children
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BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) â The Buffalo Police Department is implementing new procedures when it comes to arresting parents in the presence of their children. On Thursday, the department announced its partnership with the Osborn Association. An organization dedicated to creating opportunities for people impacted by the criminal justice system.
âOsborn had been working, for several decades, with children of incarcerated parents, senior advisor of the Osborne Association Denise O Donnell said. And really observed that over those years, one of the most trauma inducing factors in the lives of children with incarcerated parents is being present when their parents were arrested.â
Children of arrested parents are focus of new Buffalo partnership wgrz.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wgrz.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.