In other words, she accomplished one of CeaseFire's goals: to "interrupt" violence.
Proven remedies include mediation to interrupt violence between rival gangs, targeted education and recreation projects for at-risk teenagers, and counselling and childcare support for single-parent households.
I first got a sense of what it means to interrupt violence in early September, at a vigil for a slain teen in Far Rockaways, Queens.
Kotlowitz, along with Ameena Matthews and Eddie Bocanegra, two interrupters (so called because their goal is to "interrupt" retaliatory violence), will be participating in a live chat on the PBS Web site today at 1 p.m. Jason Deparle of The Times, who writes frequently on poverty, will be asking questions.
The unit brings together police, probation officers, youth services, local voluntary organisations and even someone from the Department for Work and Pensions to interrupt cycles of violence and steer young people, including girls, away from gang culture and activity, as well as enforce the law.
By employing former gang members to interrupt and prevent violence, he has seen communities slash violent crimes by 40 to 100percentt, he said.
In 2011, Mayor Nutter and New Orleans Mayor Landrieu founded Cities United, a collaborative effort among mayors, foundations, nonprofits, federal agencies, and individuals to interrupt the cycle of violence across the United States, specifically among urban African-American males.
"The specialness of the day doesn't appear to interrupt the relentless drumbeat of violence," Mayor Mitch Landrieu said outside a hospital where victims were being treated.
Continued empirical investigation of variables that potentiate or mitigate the association between family-of-origin violence and marital violence at different developmental stages is needed to identify explanatory mechanisms and, ultimately, to interrupt the intergenerational transmission of marital violence.
"For violence, we're trying to interrupt the next event, the next transmission, the next violent activity," Slutkin told me recently.
On today's Daily VICE, we meet Cobe Williams, an ex-convict who works for Ceasefire, a group dedicated to interrupting the cycle of violence in Chicago.
