City of Milwaukee - File #: 170642

• File #: 170642
• Version: 1
• Type: Resolution
• Status: Passed
• File created: 7/31/2017
• In control: COMMON COUNCIL
• Final action: 9/26/2017
• Title: Substitute resolution requiring the Health Department to seek Common Council approval prior to implementing a Cure Violence initiative.
• Sponsors: ALD. MURPHY
• Indexes: HEALTH DEPARTMENT, VIOLENCE

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result	Tally
10/5/2017	1	MAYOR	SIGNED
9/26/2017	1	COMMON COUNCIL	ADOPTED	Pass	14:1
9/14/2017	1	PUBLIC SAFETY AND HEALTH COMMITTEE	RECOMMENDED FOR ADOPTION; Minutes note: Appearing: Ald. Murphy - Sponsor David Muhammad - Office of Violence Prevention	Pass	4:0
9/6/2017	1	CITY CLERK	DRAFT SUBMITTED
7/31/2017	0	COMMON COUNCIL	ASSIGNED TO

Number
170642
Version
SUBSTITUTE 1
Reference

Sponsor
ALD. MURPHY
Title
Substitute resolution requiring the Health Department to seek Common Council approval prior to implementing a Cure Violence initiative.
Analysis
This resolution directs the Health Department to seek Common Council approval prior to implementing any initiative based on the Cure Violence model.
Body
Whereas, Cure Violence is a nationally-recognized program that seeks to interrupt and de-escalate community-based violence; and

Whereas, The Cure Violence model includes hiring and training culturally-appropriate violence interrupters to identify and mediate potentially violent conflicts and to follow up with the involved parties to prevent further conflict from turning violent; and

Whereas, Cure Violence organizations in Chicago and New York have received media attention for hiring violence interrupters who were purported to be active gang members or who were accused of committing crimes while employed by local Cure Violence organizations; and

Whereas, A Chicago-based Cure Violence organization has provided training and education on the Cure Violence model in the Milwaukee area in the past; and

Whereas, The Cure Violence model has elements in common with and may be viewed as an extension of the City’s Safe Zones initiative, a place-based violence prevention program in which community members have been hired and trained in conflict resolution, de-escalation, communication, community mapping and counter-human trafficking and are available in troubled neighborhood “safe zones” to intervene in potentially violent situations and counteract the root causes of violence, such as poverty and educational disparity; and

Whereas, Any lessons learned from a thorough evaluation of the Safe Zones initiative should be used to focus and improve how a Cure Violence program could be implemented in Milwaukee; and

Whereas, The Common Council desires the opportunity to review and consider the appropriat...