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If you tuned into council today, you might have heard public comment from Fernando Rejón, ED of the Urban Peace Institute. The #FundPeacemakers campaign had asked for $54mil of the budget reallocation be directed toward funding intervention efforts.
UPI runs the L.A. Violence Intervention Training Academy - a 140-hr course those looking to become city-contracted intervention workers take. They also provide technical training and assistance to the LAPD's Community Safety Partnership (CSP). urbanpeaceinstitute.org/our-work-urban…
They were there @ the outset of CSP (back when they were part of the Advancement Proj.) and were heavily involved not just in training officers, but in trying to build up community infrastructure in Latino & Black nbhds in Watts to engage LAPD & make LAPD responsive to residents.
