Gov. Kathy Hochul is announcing nearly $36 million in record-level funding to reduce gun violence in the state of New York.<\/p>\n
The money is going to nearly two dozen counties outside of New York City.<\/p>\n
The announcement comes as her office highlights a 19% decline in shootings statewide throughout August compared to this same time last year.<\/p>\n
The funding is part of the Gun Involved Violence Elimination, or GIVE, initiative, which supports 28 police agencies, as well as sheriffs\u2019 offices, probation departments and district attorneys\u2019 offices.<\/p>\n
G.I.V.E. is administered by the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services.<\/p>\n
Executive Deputy Commissioner Joseph Popcun says it\u2019s been operating for \u201cabout 13 years.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cG.I.V.E. works now in 21 counties where we have most of our violent crime involving firearms,\u201d said Popcun. \u201cSo, it\u2019s roughly 90% of the violent crime by firearm outside of the city.\u201d<\/p>\n
G.I.V.E. funds personnel, overtime, equipment and technical assistance.<\/p>\n
This is a breakdown from the governor\u2019s office of the funding with Western New York and the Finger Lakes region seeing the highest amounts:<\/p>\n
Western New York: $9,014,185
\nFinger Lakes: $6,579,486
\nNorth Country: $448,027 \u00a0
\nCentral New York: $3,598,127
\nSouthern Tier: $1,667,774
\nMohawk Valley: $1,539,256
\nCapital Region: $5,102,896
\nMid-Hudson: $5,419,607
\nLong Island: $2,618,625<\/p>\n
G.I.V.E. requires participating agencies to have a comprehensive plan supported by evidence-based strategies to reduce shootings and firearm-related crime.<\/p>\n
\u201cThose strategies look different for each of the communities,\u201d said Popcun. \u201cIt\u2019s everything from crime prevention through environmental design. So, \u2018hey we need to install lighting, or we need to cut shrubberies, or we need to tackle urban blight.\u2019 In other communities, it\u2019s street outreach.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n
Since taking office in 2021, Hochul\u2019s administration says the G.I.V.E. initiative has contributed to a 67% decrease in shootings involving injury throughout the state.<\/p>\n
In a statement, the governor said in part:<\/p>\n
\u201cKeeping New Yorkers safe is my top priority \u2013 and with record investments and strong partnership with law enforcement, we\u2019ll keep driving down gun violence to record lows. I remain committed to working with law enforcement and all stakeholders to ensure safer streets and communities for families throughout every corner of our state.\u201d<\/p>\n
In addition to upstate communities, the governor\u2019s office said gun violence is also down in New York City with a 58% decline since 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gov. Kathy Hochul is announcing nearly $36 million in record-level funding to reduce gun violence in the state…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363287,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[206,9,11,10,49,51,50,12,5304,112,108,87,200],"class_list":["post-363286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-albany-capital-region","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-news","tag-nicole-neuman","tag-ny-state-of-politics","tag-ny-state-of-politics-blog","tag-politics","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363286","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=363286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}