For years, New York City has employed a two-pronged approach to reducing gun violence, relying on the police and on the publicly funded conflict mediators known as violence interrupters... The February arrests of two interrupters has caused simmering tensions with the police to boil over and threatens to undermine a key part of Mayor Eric Adams's approach to curbing shootings and murders.
Where officers have the power to arrest, interrupters... rely on street credibility to steer people from crime. Over the past year, though, interrupters say officers have cursed at them; shoved them out of the way... and arrested them for minor offenses.
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