The nationally recognized Gun Involved Violence Elimination (GIVE) initiative provides state funding to local law enforcement agencies for equipment, overtime, and personnel. It provides comprehensive, focused training and technical assistance to those agencies. GIVE is a key component of New York State's comprehensive plan to reduce shootings and firearm-related violent crime, including homicides, in communities outside of New York City.
The initiative supports 28 police departments and district attorneys’ offices, probation departments and sheriffs’ offices in 21 counties: Albany (Albany PD), Broome (Binghamton PD), Cayuga (Auburn PD), Chautauqua (Jamestown PD), Chemung (Elmira PD), Dutchess (Poughkeepsie PD), Erie (Amherst, Buffalo, Cheektowaga, and Lackawanna PDs), Jefferson (Watertown PD), Monroe (Greece and Rochester PDs), Nassau (Hempstead and Nassau County PDs), Niagara (Niagara Falls PD), Oneida (Utica PD), Onondaga (Syracuse PD), Orange (Middletown and Newburgh PDs), Rensselaer (Troy PD), Rockland (Spring Valley PD), Schenectady (Schenectady PD), Suffolk (Suffolk County PD), Tompkins (Ithaca PD), Ulster (Kingston PD) and Westchester (Mount Vernon and Yonkers PDs).
GIVE focuses on four core elements:
People – The strategy must focus preventative and enforcement efforts on top offenders who have been identified as being responsible for most shootings and homicides or firearm-related violent crimes (murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault).
Places – The strategy must focus preventative and enforcement efforts on the geographic locations (hot spots) where crime data and analysis demonstrate that most shootings and homicides or firearm-related violent crimes occur.
Alignment – The strategy must describe how partners will coordinate and align all existing resources in the community in an effort to reduce shootings and homicides or firearm-related violent crimes, where applicable.
Engagement – The strategy must clearly articulate how organized outreach to key stakeholders and the community at large will occur; how the stakeholders and community will be given a voice; and how coordination will occur in a transparent manner that fosters wide-ranging support for violence reduction efforts.
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