(NEW YORK, NY) –The Legal Aid Society, Brooklyn Defender Services, The Bronx Defenders, The Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem and Queens Defenders released the following statement in response to Mayor Eric Adams’ remarks on gun violence: "We appreciate Mayor Adams’ commitment of significant resources to strategies that support a holistic approach to mitigate gun violence by expanding New York City’s Crisis Management System, mental health intervention services, and job development and housing support for young people, people in the foster system and those currently suffering homelessness

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However, we do not support Mayor Adams’ focus on discredited punitive and surveillance-based strategies, including his call for additional rollbacks to bail and discovery reform, amendments to Raise the Age, increased use of facial recognition and reinstatement of the NYPD’s historically racist Anti-Crime Unit."

View the full statement here.