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Ableton On Air is a member of the National Academy for Television Arts and Sciences Boston, New England Chapter. Welcome to this edition of Ableton On Air, the one and only program that focuses on the needs, concerns, and achievements of the different label. I've always been your host, Lauren Syler, and on this particular episode, we are talking to Zakey Musa-Dramé, editor-in-chief and chief officer of Park Chester Times, New York Parrot, and the Muslim Community Report, which is part of the Muslim Media Corporation who sponsors Ableton On Air, and we would also like to say special thanks to our sponsors, Green Mountain Support Services, Washington County Mental Health, Muslim Media Corporation, and also with partners as the Sustainable Montpelier Coalition, the Vermont Division for the Blind and Visually Impaired, and the Vermont Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired, and many, many, many others. Welcome to Zakey Musa-Dramé to Ableton On Air once again. Okay, and we would like to, today we are talking about a very important topic, violence, and violence around the world, and violence in the Bronx, and also we are going to also talk about violence and people with disabilities. So why don't we start, what's going on in the Bronx and why is the Bronx, you know, having problems with violence around people with disabilities as well. You say, wait a second, you said unleash, you said unleash. Example, example, not so long ago there was a shooting in Times Square, and also one of the biggest things that they're having now is homeless people are hitting innocent people, and you know, and what about, and what about that, the violence against Asian, the Asian descent, you know, that's happening too. Violence in Brooklyn against the Jewish population, when Jewish people go to synagogue, they're getting hit, they're getting robbed, so there's a lot going on. Um, gotten worse since the pandemic, or was the 1970s, 1980s worse? Which was it, or which is it? That's why I'm asking you, go ahead. To ask you a serious question in terms of this, they want to kind of de-escalate the, the, the, the, the Blasio administration wants to de-escalate police and put more citizens in charge. Yes, you have, in Brooklyn, there's a really well-known group that we know is called Chevrolet Rim, that their citizens, you know, they, they, they carry badges, but they don't, and, and then, and then your organization, Shaquille, you have citizen police patrol, but is it really, is it, yes, citizens should know about what's going on in their neighborhood, but is it dangerous to put citizens in charge of, of really violent crimes? How, how, um, you know, what if those citizens' groups get hurt? How, how do you deal with that? One of the, one of, one of the things, uh, one of the things that I wanted to bring up, which is part of violence, um, you know, domestic violence is also a problem. I found, um, there are six facts, I just want to bring this up, six facts about people with disabilities and domestic violence, you know, violence in the home. People with disabilities have a higher lifetime prevalence of experiencing abuse than people without disabilities. People with disabilities experience violent crimes at least twice the rate of people without disabilities. Then, yeah, number three, uh, people with disabilities are times likely to be sexually assaulted by their peers without disabilities. Number four, in 2008, intimate partners perpetrated, uh, uh, sorry, uh, perpetrated, uh, 27% of the violent crime against women with disabilities and 1.1% of crime against men with disabilities. Number, uh, number five, police are likely to, less likely to respond to reported violence against victims with disabilities than they are to be reported violence, uh, against victims without disabilities. Police respond to 90% of reports by victims without disabilities and 77% of reports of victims with disabilities. Number six, a survey conducted by the Spectrum Institute Disability and Abuse Project found that 70% of respondents with disabilities experienced some form of abuse by an intimate partner, family member, caregiver, acquaintance, or stranger. Of those, 87.2% experienced verbal and emotional abuse, 41.6% experienced sexual abuse, and 37.4% experienced neglect, 31.5% experienced financial abuse, 37.3% experienced, uh, abuse by law enforcement, and 10% were arrested, um, in abuse cases reported by law enforcement, uh, you know, perpetrators. Anything you want to say against domestic violence, because that's part of it too. Because courts, because courts, the court is more stringent, you know, more stronger, like example, in years past, I know that the law is that if you have, um, sexual relations with someone and they are mentally incapable of taking care of themselves, or, um, I don't like using the word mentally retarded, because they don't use that anymore. But if they're mentally, quote unquote, incapacitated, you can go to jail for a longer time versus a regular, uh, person, you know what I mean? Um, that the laws are more stronger in that way. I mean, violence against anyone is no good, but, you know, but it, it, it becomes more of a problem if there's violence against people with disabilities, especially at nursing homes and hospitals. So, so question what, so, so the main, the main question becomes, are the, are the courts in this case controlled politically? Why are they allowing a person to be arrested seven times and let go, you know, let go, come back in, let go, come back in? I mean, I mean, something has to give you, you know? But why is it, why isn't that people sometimes don't want to participate in civic affairs? Is it because they're scared? Well, I would like to, um, before we end, um, where can people contact, uh, Park Chester Times and New York parrot if they want to, you know, write for you guys or send you information. I made a mistake. So what is your title? Publisher. Okay. Okay. So you're the publisher. I apologize. Wait a second, you're the publisher, but, um, also, um, so in New York parrot is www.NewYorkParrot.com. Okay. And what, what about the Muslim community report? Same thing? Okay. Well, I would like to thank Shaquem Musa Jamey, publisher of, um, the Muslim media corporation and, uh, which includes Park Chester Times, Muslim community report, and the New York parrot. And we would like to say special thanks to him and, um, our sponsors, Washington County Meta Health, Green Mountain Support Services, Muslim media corporation, and, uh, many others, including, uh, the partnership with the Vermont division for the blind and visually impaired, as well as, um, Vermont association for the blind and visually impaired, and, uh, the sustainable Montpellier coalition and many, many, many others. Um, this puts an end to this edition of Ableton On Air. I'm Lauren Seiler. See you next time. Ableton On Air is sponsored by Green Mountain Support Services, empowering people with disabilities to be home in the community. Washington County Mental Health, where hope and support comes together. Media sponsors for Ableton On Air include Park Chester Times, Muslim community report, WWW, this is the Bronx dot info, Associated Press media editors, New York parrot online newspaper, U.S. press corps, domestic and international anchor FM and Spotify partners for Ableton On Air include Yehad, New York and New England, where everyone belongs, the Orthodox Union, the Vermont division for the blind and visually impaired, the Vermont association for the blind and visually impaired, the Montpellier sustainable coalition. Ableton On Air has been seen in the following publications Park Chester Times, New York parrot online newspaper, Muslim community report, WWW, this is the Bronx dot info, and WWW dot H dot com. Ableton On Air is a member of the National Academy for Television Arts and Sciences, Boston, New England chapter.