 caucus and council members out there Stephen June is gun violence awareness month and it is incredibly important that we continue to raise awareness and work towards a comprehensive solution to this issue. I am really frustrated and quite frankly sick and tired. Even as I was thinking about the words to say I really don't have any words because we know this has been an issue for far too long. We will not stand by silently while more people are killed by gun violence. We will not babies are dying in the streets. Enough is enough equalizer and we must not balance politics on the backs of our communities. The lack of action. We need to remove guns off our streets and we need to replace them with resources. We know that gun violence does not just let's go from my colleague, council member Williams for a powerful words that she mentioned today. When we started this thing called the hood caucus. It was something that we had a common boundary amongst ourselves in the council. We represent different neighborhoods within New York City. Within council members Stevens and council member Williams and myself. We represent Queens in the Bronx. We realized that gun violence is plaguing our communities. This is things that is affecting our neighbors on a daily basis. When we talk about the conversations that we're having today, a lot of the times our hoods are in board to these conversations. When we formulate the hood caucus, we want to address issues that are happening within our neighborhoods. We live in our hoods. I live in the Northeast Bronx by eating a wall and co-op city. I see everything that's happened in my neighborhood on a daily, everyday basis. We're not up here giving you talking points. We're up here giving you feelings. We're up here giving you situations that are happening within our neighborhoods on a daily basis. But the issue that's happening today is that our neighborhoods aren't involved in these conversations. And what we realize is we have a strong tool that we are. We have within New York City to address this. This is our CMS groups. This is that energy you see behind me. We have these armed shirts on. Even though this is gun violence awareness month, June, we deal with this on a daily basis. 12 months a month. 12 months a year. Excuse me. 365 days a year. We deal with this on a daily basis. What we're trying to do is form the hood caucus where we're bringing our hoods to the table. When we're addressing things as a government, if you're from the hood, you understand the hood don't really relate to the government. We don't relate to the government. And we try to address things that happen in our neighborhood on a daily basis. We want to make sure that they have a seat at the table. And this is why we create the hood caucus. This is why Council Member Stevens, Council Member Woodings and myself stand today to bridge colleagues, government together to address the issues that happen in our neighborhoods. This is why we've been having conversations prior to us being elected with crisis management groups within our communities to address these issues. This is why we stand here today. This is not just here for a press publicity stunt. This is work that we're actually putting in on the background. This is work that we're trying to call or government and elected officials together to address this. We're not going to address gun violence, excuse me, a specific group. We're going to address gun violence together. And this is why we want to have this conversation today. So with that being said, I want to introduce my colleague, Council Member Stevens, to come up here to give some remarks on behalf of the youth that we're really trying to impact on this journey. Peace. We want peace on one piece. Family. I need to hear that because it's important. We're talking about our young people here. If you know me, everything I do is about our young people. And let's be clear. If I say Shaneeva over again, our kids don't want to die deptable and a need for them to carry a gun. Talk about it. Our young people deserve better investments. They deserve programming. Problem should be solving it. The young people are they should be solving it conversation. They need to be part of the task force. They need to be a part of this work because it's them who are dying in these streets. It's them who are scared. So they're picking up a gun because we haven't done the work. Every young person that died in the street taken as a failure of each and every one of these adults were here today. And it's our fault. It is our fault every time because every kid that dies because those are babies and we failed them. We must continue to invest in them. We must continue to love them. This is not just about gun violence awareness month. Gun violence awareness is every single day because my children, my community are suffering from it daily. So people say the hook caucus, they did think it was a joke, but we are talking about how we bring the hood to this conversation because for too long, we didn't have a seat at the table. And guess what? I got a folding chair and I brought it to the table. So next the next person I'm gonna bring up. I know the next person I'm gonna bring up who's been leading this work and set the groundwork for us three to be here today. He's done this work. He's been in the trenches and continue to do this work. Let's give it up for our public advocate, Jimani Williams. Peace and blessing. Love and light to everybody. Yo, can we give it up for the unabashed hood caucus right now, please? I'm gonna go a little bit back. I just want to go back a decade ago when I was in the city council. I wish we had a hook caucus. We didn't. This is the brilliance of the of the generation now. But I remember giving a speech after a shooting and saying if the people who were dying had less melanin in their skin and they lived in another part of the city, the whole city would stop short and try to figure out how to solve this problem. There was another shooting. I said the same thing. If this were different people dying, the whole city would stop. Everybody would get together. And finally, to her credit, the then speaker put together a task force and appointed me the coach here. The task force to combat gun violence. And what we said then is some of the same pushing back and some of the same things that we're here saying saying now somehow we don't care about the young people dying in our streets. Nobody cares more about the people dying in the streets than the people that live there. And what we said was we understand that our law enforcement has a role to play, but if they alone could have solved that problem, they would have already solved it. And what we needed was deep investment in our communities to deal with the issues that those communities are dealing with, especially if we're not going to stop the flow of guns, which we should be stopping in the first place. So it's an honor to be here 10 years later because we had that task force and it was it was great to hear from people who were doing this work like the Fertile Brothers. It was great to have people who were doing this work like Erica Ford was then on the task force. A.T. Mitchell, who I know is going to be making some great news in a little bit on that task force. My brother K. Bain was my legislative director who helped guide me through this work. It's an honor to be here and I have to tell you it took way too long and we still don't have enough money. But when we were there, I remember them saying there's a couple, we're not going to name names, but they try to take a couple of people off the task force. But we said we're not removing anybody because what you're seeing is the trauma of years of watching kids die. So you're going to deal with this trauma just like the community had to deal with it and they have a lot to bring to the table. I had to go in, I wasn't in the budget, budget negotiation team, I was just a freshman. We convinced Republicans to support us. I remember they wanted to give us like two million dollars. We said we're not taking two million dollars. You try to give us that money, we're going to have a press conference and say you don't care about black and brown people dying in the streets. So we got them to five million dollars, a million dollars in each borough. I'm so proud they were over a hundred million dollars right now to this system. But it has to be short-lived collapse because the NYPD is up to 11 billion dollars with a B in the funding that they receive. Nothing that we will discuss here today gives you the right to shoot 11-year-old Kiera in the Bronx. Gives you the right to shoot 12-year-old Cade in Brooklyn. Gives you the right to shoot 13 black people in Buffalo in the supermarket. You don't have a right to do that. You have to have consequences and accountability for your actions. But what we have been saying for so long is stop spending more money on the accountability and the consequences than preventing it from happening in the first place. That's all we've been saying. We are about to go to the fourth or fifth surge of police in the subways and we still have violence. So all we are saying is we need more resources. If you really want to support the law enforcement stop asking them to solve all of the problems that so many people have a part to play. That's the best thing that you can do. So I'm honored to be here now to see where this thing has come with people who were with us. Tamika Mallory who was here as well was also on that task force. To see the people who started from nothing who said if there's nothing there we will create it. And lastly we fought every step of the way from 2012 to 2018 forcing them to do the things that we said needed to be done. Forcing them to lowering saying you can't stop more black people than live in the city of New York. Forcing them to put resources into communities. And in 2018 2019 in part because of the work that was done here we became the safest city we ever been in this in this country and in the history of this city. And we started sounding the alarm when this pandemic went up that the violence was going to go up. We know what to do. Fund it. Structuralize it. Make sure that when people call on the phone they can get something that's not just police to deal with the violence problem that we've been dealing for a long time. The last thing I'll say is the answer cannot be that we arrest more and more black and brown children of the black and brown people we arrested 10 years ago. Peace and blessings. Love and light to you all. I just want to shout out some of my colleagues that are standing here today. As many know we have a new call a new council. I'm like new caucus be the new caucus a new council. That's how we get down here. All right so council member shaker krishnan did I forget any of my Vanessa right here. So just really quickly my president just stepped in the building so we're going to bring her up to have a couple of words. Vanessa Gibson who was also in that task force. She was important for the correction but she's been doing this work. We're going to acknowledge her. So Mike is working. No it's not. Okay peace family good afternoon brothers and sisters. Isn't it Vanessa Gibson and I'm so thankful to be here on this day. We have a collective responsibility as elected officials as advocates as CMS organizations to do our part to save our children. Our baby in the six months that I've served as Bronx borough president I've already experienced and he lived to see one years old. We had a 16 year old fatally shot leaving school a few weeks ago and just two weeks ago we had an 11 year old shot. I want everyone to understand this is not normal. We have got to do better. We know that the answer to address gun violence are jobs and programs and after school and community centers and recreation centers and jobs and more jobs. We have a gun violence problem in this country. This is not just a problem in New York City and so as Bronx borough president I stand with the members of the city council with the hood caucus our public advocate crisis management organizations. I want to shout out my Bronx groups who are with me every day in the trenches. We do this work every day not just the month of June. I want the media to understand. We have to tell a better narrative. I need y'all to show up when we have job fairs not just the shooting. I need y'all to show up when we are at college graduations. I need you to show up when we get these young people jobs. I need the media to understand that there's a better narrative that we can tell in this city. It is not all negative. We have young people going to college and careers right now and they're black and brown. That is our future. Every young person is not a criminal. We have to do better. They're on a detour but guess what? We can get them on the right path. So I want to shout out Guns Down Life Up, SOS, BRAG, RTG. I want to shout out Life Camp, GMAC, MAN UP, East Harlem Save, True to Life. I see you. I see all of you out here and I know y'all are doing this work. Don't give up. Stay focused because our children need us. We will not lose our children to the streets. We will not let them go. We will stay with them and we will stay out here in these streets until every child in the city of New York is safe. God bless you, my brothers and sisters. I just also want to acknowledge another one of my colleagues, council member Eric Botcher and with that we are actually going to bring up, oh you can't hear me? Can you hear me now? Yes, Eric Botcher is here and now we're going to actually hand it over to A.T. Mitchell who does not really need an introduction to facilitate the CMS groups and a few other fun things. So good afternoon everybody. Good afternoon everyone. It is a great afternoon and again as I traditionally always like to say and pay homage and respect to and that's to every single one of these men and women that's on the steps. This is about you all. So respectfully we are the crisis management system as been mentioned. We are no newcomers to this city to this issue. We have a host of veterans long-time activists that work these streets day in and day out. So you may not see us normally here at city hall until today but we got a number of our leaders that are going to come forward and tell you more about who we are what we do and I ask that you please be patient with them as well. First up as well that does not need any introductions is one of our queens of the movement and one of our kings of the movement. Erica Ford of Life Camp Incorporated and Lance Fatato from Kinga Kings Foundation. My name is Lance Fatato. I am the founder and executive director of the Kinga Kings Foundation and I'm one of the pioneers along with Erica, A.T. and a host of us Tamika Mowgli. So we want to talk about how do we get to this point. This started way back in 2009 when we suffered a rash of shootings in three of our boroughs Brooklyn, Harlem and Queens. Us being street generals we said to ourselves enough is enough. So we came together no money no support just the love for our people the love for our people and the love for life. We are pro-life and so we came together and we said you know what collectively we have to do something to reduce gun violence in our communities. So we developed a think tank where we all came together and we adopted this model from out of Chicago back then it was called ceasefire known now as cure violence. Am I right? Now we're CMS known as crisis management system. When there's a crisis we come through and we manage it. As my sister Erica said there's not enough support. We don't have anything bad to say about anybody but it's not 5,000 of us it's not 40,000 us it's only 500 of us and we need to grow this. There's 33 sites we need 150 sites across the city so every borough has at least 25 sites and that's a true way that we can help reduce violence in our communities and we make a better way of life for our future leaders. When I say peace up you say guns down. Peace up! Peace up! Brothers and sisters first of all family this is a system to respect us especially if it's the members of the city council talking in the back while we're here until freedom. I'm also one of the individuals who is so proud to be here today joining my brothers and sisters and particularly Erica and AT because we gather many who were there in the very beginning when we did not have this. The purpose was to provide jobs and opportunities for those that we knew could help us to address the issue of violence. We knew that the people who could actually work on this issue and deal with this issue and bring violent crime down were those who had experience whether they be formally incarcerated a shooter a victim the mother needed to be on the people so that the people can help address the concerns of the people so we worked hard to make this happen and today what you see behind us is not just the government made it happen because to be clear we were told no every time that we asked for resources when we first started we met with the mayor at the time and he looked Erica Ford and I dead in the face and said there is no proof that what you're trying to do will work but we proved it they sent us back they told us to get data and all that Erica has mentioned in terms of how many days weeks years months went by without shootings in this city we did that together now once the pandemic came it changed a lot for everybody so stop trying to act like a media who you are here if you have any moral conscious tell the true story violence is up everywhere 63 Malcolm X got in big trouble for saying something that we see today which is that the chickens are coming home to rules as we see shootings happening across this nation shootings of all types mass shootings violence everywhere remember that this group we told you we told you what would happen we gave you the forecast of what would happen to this nation if we did not deal with mental heal with the lack of jobs and resources if we did not address food deserts and other concerning issues in our community we already told you that today would come and so if we are to go forward and this nation is to be better this group is an example of what must come together in order to address those concerns the police force cannot do it alone if they could have cms would have never been needed the government cannot do it alone half the time they can't figure out from one side to the other what to do it takes all of us but the main thing is that the people must be centered and so we look forward to having our new hood caucus fight to bring more resources to cms and other groups who are doing this work around the city so that the nation can learn from new york city how to bring violent crime down god bless you thank you yeah what we're gonna do at this point again we respect and appreciate everybody's patience i don't think everybody expected even to be this hot today right it was literally supposed to rain but without further ado i want to bring up the mayor of the city of new york mayor eric adams hey hey hey you know it is it is hot but our communities are hot every day and i say this over and over on the campaign trail that i'm not new to this i'm true to this and nothing personifies that more than the people who are here today at mitchell eric afloat for it to mika k bay we've been in the field together for a long time in some of the names vinesa vinesa gibson we have been doing this for a long time and history is going to show that the first crisis management funding came from an idea i had in the state senate called snug guns spelled backwards first allocation of money first and it has moved into the movement you see behind us and so when people believe that folks of color want to normalize gun violence in their community they are wrong they are wrong this is a real issue that we want to attack head on but what we don't want to do is minimize the complete picture that must be addressed by the time a person picks up a gun we've already failed we've already failed now said this over and over again there are many rivers that feed the sea of violence and it's time to damn every river not just one with law enforcement damning every river is what we're going to do the epidemic of gun violence is not a new york problem it's not a democrat republican problem tulsa is a red state the shooting that took place there was a red state just an announcement came over just a few minutes ago of a 16 year old attempting to recruit others in berkeley to go in and shoot up a school every day we're hearing about this is breaking our hearts breaking our bodies and breaking our communities when a bullet hits the target the physical bullet stops but the emotional trauma rips apart the anatomy of our entire community and there have been more mass shootings think about this for a moment more mass shootings in america than days of the years unbelievable and we've normalized it we say it's okay and i think we often dismiss it because the victim of handguns violence for the most part are black and brown and in the inner cities all across america so we've normalized it and stated that that is just the way it has to be and we're saying today your damn right is not going to be that way we could turn it around and make it happen it's not a big city problem it's america problem the proliferation of guns that are impacting our communities and the rise of radicalization that's the focus that we are ignoring and the role of social media on attempting to allow this radicalizing of people across our city in their homes it's the culture that says you have the right to feel more powerful and more important than your right to live and peace in our communities and so we are here today to gather and reject that mindset coming from different philosophies outlooks and belief coming together to unify around around one cause and that cause is to end gun violence and so today i am announcing a new task force to formalize my executive order 19 it would be a cult it would be cold chair by A.T. Mitchell A.T. which is a long advocate in this space that i have known for 30 years 30 years of being on the ground of fighting hard for this issue and some people say well what about his background well what about my background what about all of our background we're not looking for a nun we're looking for someone that's not afraid to be in the street and embrace our people we're looking for the right person for the job and A.T. is the right person for the job founder of man up a violence prevention and community development organization in each new york for used to be the murder capital of our country on the ground every day i'm proud to have him here 20 years of experience designing and delivering proven solutions that contribute to safer neighborhoods he will be co-chairing the task force with deputy mayor right think about that for a moment think about that for a moment the person on the ground is co-chairing with a deputy mayor the highest end of my government is being focused on this issue in a real way the task force members will include every deputy mayor police commissioner chancellor everyone that impacts or touches the lives of a young people will be part of the solution of dealing with gun violence because we can't continue to believe that because you made an arrest you solved the problem the problem is why our children haven't or feel they have the need to have guns in the first place that is where the failure has already took place even as we see the shocking headlines across the nation and the endless speed of these guns we took close to 3000 illegal guns off our streets since january 3000 and they continue to come in so the answer can't be just downstream making arrests the answer is going upstream preventing people from being and having these guns in the hands of our children in the first place we're seeing a substantial decrease in shooters 30% decrease in homicide 30% but you know what those numbers mean nothing because you tell that to the mother of 11-year-old child that was shot and killed so we don't want to throw around stats we want to make sure we give the resources to the people that need it that's on the ground and we're going to do more this is an all hands on deck moment all of my agencies will be involved every agency will have a liaison to speak directly with the leaders of the crisis management team with at and uh deputy mayor sheina sheina right the task force will ensure the community safety agencies responsible and support to those first responders we're going to expand the definition of first responders because first responders are not only the police e-m-t f-d-n-y they are the c-m-s add those new three letters to the definition of first responders we're going to expand the program with proven records we're going to have summer youth program saturday night lives they were engaged with communities most impacted by violence identifying gaps and getting the resources to build on them we're going to make sure people who are in need are connected with our department of health and mental hygiene so we can deal with mental health issues health care affordable housing we're going to ensure that our affordable housing teams are in place we're going to ensure housing of those who are returning citizens can go into some form of housing so they don't go back into incarceration we're going to make sure our children are screened for dyslexia 30 of our inmates are dyslexic that's why david banks is going to be part of this task force we need to make sure that our parks are open and clean and communities that need them sports programs and yes instead of g-u-n-s let me give you another four letters how about j-o-b-s let's get our children jobs let's put them on a pathway of employment that's why we have a hundred thousand summer youth jobs first time in the city history thank you germany Williams for pushing this for years that is why we're pushing to tell corporate america we want a 100 paid internship program throughout the school year leading into our foster care children to give them the support they need so they don't age out at 21 give them mentors until they're 26 all of these things are going to help us deal with this issue in a real way time to take our city upstream and build real partnerships with people who are tired as i am of pulling people out of the river downstream this is our moment you do not elect me to do what everyone has done in the past you wanted a different outcomes and you picked a different mayor and trust me it's a lot of noise out there everybody's gonna critique us everybody's gonna start telling why don't you pick this one why don't you pick that because i'm the mayor and we're going to make the decisions now to save our children with the level of urgency that we deserve we've been on the ground too long doing this right too long and you call dsn y to say we need to clean up a street so that we can stop hiding drugs and and behind packages and no one's responding you call the closer street to make sure you can have a basketball program and no one wants to give you the permit you want to go to the precinct and speak to a precinct commander because you want to de-escalate something and our precinct commander is not giving you the love and respect you deserve those days are over you are now part of the apparatus of making our city safe intervention and prevention there's a new day in the city of the new new york where we all will benefit from it thank you all of you for being here today we're going to hold it down for our communities thank you brevish all yours wow so again good afternoon everyone i first and foremost want to personally thank mayor adams for doing what he said that he would do even before he got into politics he said that he was going to make a difference and that's how he's been living his life every day since that i've known him share your new title with him share your title share your title with him i'm a part of a very robust group of advocates that i'm very proud to be a member of and a lot of us know each other respectfully but thank you to mayor adams for naming me to be the gun violence prevention czar in new york city it's a new title it's the first ever and it should be as he mentioned we should want some things that are different we've been dealing with this issue for far too long and we've been using the same tactics over and over again and we've been getting the same results so so so no one should have a problem with us trying something different give us a chance to prove our self-worth we are the people who are closest to the problem so quite naturally we have the answers to those problems there's nobody that wants gun violence to end more than the young people that come from the neighborhoods and the people who live in this community every single day and so this is a community driven approach when you hear about the state or the feds and now the city now include the community that's the fourth leg of the chair that you sit in on marsha the community that we represent can create as you heard mentioned at this podium solutions for themselves and we're going to work hand in sink with that community to make sure that we deliver the things that they say that they need the things that they say that they want and these men and women behind me are trained to deliver those resources into those neighborhoods where other people cannot go so i'm proud to accept this opportunity i'm looking forward to working with the other members of the administrations and my colleagues i'm looking forward to helping us strengthen the crisis management system to expand on it on its successes i'm looking forward to working with all of you thank you i'll give it back to you yes sir well well summer actually started already for us as you can see when the weather gets hot it's summertime in our neighborhoods right so we already been preparing ourselves all year round throughout the pandemic throughout the first six months of this administration we've been preparing ourselves and we have to be honest we didn't get into this problem overnight so we shouldn't expect an overnight cure we were actually asking for an honest opportunity a fair opportunity i can't put a time frame on it because we've been living in these conditions for far too long because we're not miracle makers you know we are trained and disciplined at what we do i can assure you that with the support that we will get from this city we will continue to do our part but i can't put a thing on the time right now marshal i can't you marshal i'm sorry somebody asked that louder what i don't hear from you most important what do you need what is the most important resources marshal i think one we need honestly we need everybody's full cooperation you know every one of us are human resources right as an individual we have something that we have that we can share with the next person and so first and foremost it starts with us before we look outside for the resources we want to look within the person who we see in the mirror every day is a resource and every one of us here can bring something to the table but as it relates to what we know works because we've been out there for decades and that is if we bring employment opportunities that are meaningful and living and and living wage opportunities that that helps at the beginning if we bring in housing opportunities so that people can be able to feel like they have their own space if we can bring more counseling and mentorship into the schools into the neighborhoods to deal with the trauma that a lot of the people are suffering but also we can bring more opportunities like this that we have been able to showcase that these men and women most of which who have been there and done that have been able to get employed and to go back into their neighborhoods and to become someone that they feel proud of and help and rebuild their own neighborhoods i'm sorry i'm sorry i'm sorry i'm sorry all good all good number one we we've already have committed financial resources to the crisis management team we believe in the system as i stated starting out and when i was in the senate we believed in that system but the second is about using our pre-existing resources in our agencies the agencies have not been connected to the number one crisis we are fighting and so i want my chancellor connected as we deal with safe zones around our schools as we have members of the cms team going to schools and de-escalate and build those relationships i want um hbd to be part of as we identify our housing returning citizen housing those who are informally incarcerated our shelter system we need to have the crisis management operating operation and our shelters de-escalated situation they have been excellent skilled at de-escalation and so if if all of our agencies are aligned and look at this these organizations as partners we can turn around this conversation they have not been considered partners they have been considered a separate entity and now they're considered as partners that's what the councilpersons are saying that's what i'm saying as the mayor that's right well you know hiring their own family members i think y'all beat me up when i wanted to hire my my brother so you know uh listen let me be clear i've vetted at for 30 years i can't say that enough this is a 30-year relationship of a person who i have witnessed on the ground as shooters on the ground talking to people who are in gangs getting them out of gangs on the ground getting people to disarm themselves that's a 30-year relationship so i don't want people to send me in their resume and telling me what they did that other people know about i only had to vet one person at metro he was the right person for the job because of my long relationships being on the ground i don't have to find people i have relationships with people and so the doi did their investigation they came up with recommendations he followed the recommendations and that's what that's what his um they're doing following the recommendations and so um i think the best recommendation we have is the recommendation i gave to my team that at mitchell's the man to do this job well well we are showing progress on the police arm 30 drop in shooters 30 drop in homicide the largest uh a rest rate for guns in over 30 years in closer 30 years so there's progress there now we need to look at progress with the our progress and support in these teams and groups here we underestimate everyone talks about how many shooters that are taking place we underestimate how many shooters are prevented because of these group and you can't always measure the prevention people want to look at what happened and not to prevent you i'm a big believer we need to look at how many preventive shooters we witness and so it's crucial to us part of what we want to do is give support to all of the crisis management team build out their infrastructure we're going to bring in some professionals to show them some standards things that we want to do we're going to roll out all of them so that they can have a solid infrastructure because far too often they're busy being on the ground saving lives they don't have that infrastructure support that they need now that the supreme court ruling i am blown away that the rest of america is not afraid of this supreme court ruling that i'm keep talking about they're about to say the right to carry that means everyone on the train can openly carry a gun you're in a supermarket everyone can carry a gun that should be the number one issue we're talking about this open carry law that trump supreme court is about to push forward a lanter just removed all of its restrictions for obtaining a gun so as shooters are going up the restrictions are going down and we're creating an environment where every person no matter what they're meant to stay no matter what they're going through can be armed with a gun so simple a traffic infraction can turn into a shootout a simple dispute can turn into a shootout we need to be laser focused and put pressure on the supreme court to say do not pad do not allow this to come into law i'm sorry what what what they were judging me they were judging me january first you would have thought i would man for four years the way they were judging me you would judge us when the city is safe and we're going to keep trying new things do different things we're going to keep evolving to create a safety that could address that national problem the national gun problem that's what we need to really understand this is a national crisis and we're going to partner with our mayors across the city i spoke to the mayor but we had the man shooting in texas i spoke to him today and he stated i'm a republican eric but i want to align myself with what you're doing because we need to be partners in what's happening in our cities we're going to do two more and i got a i got a bounce yes we did we talked about that you know uh weeks ago he said eric this is where this is what it is i'm an open book and i said yo brother i want you you know because i'm you know when you're talking about doi i'm talking about doi i'm on our children are dying that's right our children are dying and the lack of urgency of getting the best talent to stop the doi i have to stop the doa's that's my focus the doa's they made recommendations he did the recommendations we are moving forward and we're focused on stopping the doa's no no we don't want to integrate this into city agencies the uniqueness of these crisis management team is their ability to say they're not city employees that they're able to sit down and they're not going to be restricted and how they interact with those they're trying to get guns out of their hands that's the uniqueness of this we want to we want to make sure that they're getting the support from city agencies as they carry out their missions so if they want to go into a school to de-escalate a situation they need to have the relationship with that principle that that principle see a witness them as an additional resource to go in to de-escalate just the problem well you have two phases you have the deputy mayor and you have uh at so you're bringing both groups together so what he's going to do on this on the streets is what we're going to do inside government and see here's the is the uniqueness of this and and i and i gotta bounce because i got other stuff to do but here's the uniqueness of this y'all trying to define the way y'all do things to weigh us we don't do the one two three one two three dance we do the boogaloo so you trying to say well what's this what's this what's this you don't understand this is not how we operate you know this is like a different way if you're trying to stop someone that's carrying a gun that doesn't have a home to sleep in don't have anything to eat live it in the shelter and you start try to go to them and say well you know what i got this philosophical principle that i learned in my theoretical class that people will say get out of my face they got this unique way based on their life experiences to communicate with people and i'm not trying to take that away from them i'm not trying to fit it into my neat little governmental box i'm saying to all of them do your thing get that gun out of the hand get that person employed get them back in school let's stop the deaths of our children and it may be strange to you it may be because you didn't spend any time in this new york so all of this may be far into a whole lot of folks a whole lot of folks may be saying what are they talking about we got it but you know what when they do that job you're going to be able to live in a safer city that's right that's what we're going to do thank you make some noise y'all yeah i got it i got it i got it yes i think it's important to do so knit together cases knit together you know those who are really inflicted this violence i think that i call for that on the campaign trail i think it would be a great idea we do it in other areas we should have one person or one a special person that knows how to knit together all of these all of these cases i don't have the authority to to do so you know we need we need uh judge fiori and we need to da's to also buy in and that's part of the conversation that we're going to engage in okay thank you sir eric eric