The Importance of Preventative Medicine in Violence Prevention

In the traditional response to an incidence of violence, a shooting or stabbing, you may go to the ER real quick, and then you go straight to the precinct. What we decided to do is that we said, hey, let's shift the response and see what happens when we make the center of response a hospital instead of a jail. And that's what we're doing here at Jacobi Hospital. Some of our most effective people in this work are the former gang members, former people who formerly spent time at Rikers. I can hear how Fox News would spin this as AOC tries to defund the police and fund gang members. But Eric Adams has just increased police wages by 28%.