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Washington Post
3 days ago
- Politics
- Washington Post
D.C. lawmaker proposes taking violence intervention away from mayor
D.C.'s Office of Neighborhood Safety and Engagement, beleaguered by a bribery scandal involving a former D.C. lawmaker, could be dissolved under a proposal by council member Brooke Pinto (D-Ward 2) — who is also proposing drastically cutting the city's overall violence intervention funding. Pinto, who chairs the council's public safety committee, circulated a budget proposal Monday that would remove the agency's violence interruption program from Mayor Muriel E. Bowser's control and consolidate it within Cure the Streets, a separate violence interruption program run by the independent Office of the Attorney General.
Washington Post
24-03-2025
- Washington Post
He was a D.C. violence interrupter. Now he's a homicide suspect.
Fueled by his own brushes with the law and a desire to be a role model for his son, Cotey Wynn began working to prevent bloodshed in the nation's capital after years in prison. He joined Cure the Streets, a program run through the D.C. Office of the Attorney General, as a violence interrupter in the Trinidad neighborhood in Northeast Washington where he grew up. He helped people find jobs, brokered peace and answered late-night calls from community members in need, according to a 2020 biography on the attorney general's website.
