Faith leaders and members of the NYPD have announced the launch of a new community patrol group aimed at addressing recent violence across Brooklyn.<\/p>\n
The initiative, called the Clergy Community Patrol, brings trained faith leaders into neighborhoods to help de\u2011escalate conflict and strengthen trust between the community and police.<\/p>\n
According to officials, approximately two dozen members of the Clergy Community Patrol\u2014also known as CCP\u2014have completed monthslong training focused on conflict resolution, community engagement and responding to mental health situations.<\/p>\n
Starting immediately, members will begin daily patrols in neighborhoods most impacted by crime, including areas within the 79th Precinct as well as the 73rd and 75th precincts.<\/p>\n
These deployments come after a string of recent violence in the same areas, including the fatal shooting of a 16\u2011year\u2011old boy last week and a double shooting just two days ago.<\/p>\n
Rev. Kevin McCall, founder of the Clergy Community Patrol, says the timing of this effort is critical.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s so much violence happening right before spring and summer come,\u201d McCall said. \u201cNow is the opportunity to have the clergy outside the four walls and being in the street.\u201d<\/p>\n
Organizers describe the patrol as a proactive approach centered on prevention, support, and visibility\u2014particularly for families impacted by violence. Members say the work begins immediately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Faith leaders and members of the NYPD have announced the launch of a new community patrol group aimed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216059,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-216058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}