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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.
For additional information visit
www.brooklynda.org. To have your questions answered in a future
column send your inquiries to
asktheda@brooklynda.org. |
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