Brooklyn District Attorney Charles J. Hynes has announced the creation of Safe Stop, an initiative which provides a safe place for youth, seniors, and all others to go if they need help in case of an emergency. The program was pushed into action following the Leiby Kletzky tragedy, though it had been in the works for a while.
Stores that participate in the Safe Stop program will display decals in their windows identifying them as a designated Safe Stop location. The merchants will be trained by Executive Directors of neighborhood Business Improvement Districts (BID), and will be able to provide a shelter, call 911 in case of emergency, or give public safety information from the DA’s Office and the Police Department if it's not an emergency.
The first stores involved in the program are in Park Slope, Sunset Park, and Williamsburg.
While this sounds like a great program and a great effort, anyone else see the problem here? Neither Borough Park, where Kletzky was from, or Kensington, where his remains were found, have a Business Improvement District.
that DA’s office will "take part in an additional initiative through the Legal Lives Program where prosecutors will present a law-related curriculum to hundreds of schools throughout Brooklyn each year," in an additional effort to get the word out about the program.
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