{"id":338393,"date":"2026-09-04T22:02:49","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T22:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/338393\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T22:02:49","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T22:02:49","slug":"brooklyn-violence-interrupters-saw-less-violence-this-summer-but-say-theres-more-work-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/338393\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn violence interrupters saw less violence this summer, but say there&#8217;s more work ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text-base line-height-3\">On average, there are more shootings and murders in the summers in New York than there are at other times of the year, but this year, the NYPD is reporting a historically safe summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-base line-height-3\">In the beginning of the summer, WNYC&#8217;s All Things Considered talked about summer violence with Camara Jackson, the founder and CEO of Elite Learners, a community based organization in Central Brooklyn that provides mentorship and focuses on violence prevention for youth and at-risk individuals.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-base line-height-3\">As we near the end of summer, WNYC&#8217;s Sean Carlson checked back in with her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-base line-height-3\">\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On average, there are more shootings and murders in the summers in New York than there are at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338394,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[4982,98,100,99,87440,17,2538,9,24,12,4999,63,7994,21888,7178,25774,87439],"class_list":["post-338393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-arts","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-classical","tag-culture","tag-music","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-npr","tag-nyc","tag-podcasts","tag-public","tag-radio","tag-wnyc","tag-wnyc-studios"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338393","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=338393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}