I
recently saw a decal in a storefront in my
neighborhood designating the location a “Safe
Stop.”
What
exactly is a
Safe Stop
location?
Last August I started
Project
Safe Stop in Brooklyn with 77 participating
merchants
in Sunset
Park,
Williamsburg and Park Slope.
To date,
199 merchants in Brooklyn participate in the
program.
I started the program to provide a
safe place for youth, seniors and all others to
go if
they need help
in case of emergency,
to
access information
about the
District Attorney’s Neighborhood
Office Program,
and crime prevention programs offered by
both my office and the Police Department.
Each
Safe Stop
location is a safe place to go in the event of
an emergency.
If someone is lost, has a medical
emergency, or is victim of a crime, they can go
into any one of these
Safe Stop
locations where special trained merchants will
have all types of information and resources
available to help.
Participants in
Safe Stop
display decals in their store windows
identifying themselves as a designated
Safe Stop
location.
The merchants are trained by Executive
Directors of neighborhood Business Improvement
Districts (BID).
The merchants are directed to call 911
for emergencies that require immediate medical,
police or fire department response.
Another component of
Safe Stop
has my Assistant District Attorneys spreading
the word about this public safety initiative via
our Legal Lives Program in which my attorneys
appear in schools throughout Brooklyn each year
to present a law-related curriculum to young
people
This is an example of law enforcement and
community working together at its best. If
interested in becoming a
Safe Stop
location please call (718) 250-2247.
Also, to find the location of the
neighborhood offices nearest you call our
hotline at (718) 250-2555.
