"New York City’s stop-and-frisk crime-fighting strategy involving street searches of mostly minority residents unleashed a tsunami of controversy. San Francisco is about to try a radically different tactic: Stop and offer therapy.
"The new approach is one part of an innovative plan of attack on crime by San Francisco District Attorney George Gascon. His office has been awarded a three-year, $1 million grant from the US Department of Justice to battle violence in the Eastern Bayview section of Bayview-Hunter’s Point. The program aims to prevent crime through effective use of intervention, mental health outreach and treatment, better access to victim compensation, and by promoting neighborhood stability and safety through support for organizations and revitalization efforts. Twenty-six percent of all murders in the city from 2008 to 2011 occurred in the area, which is considered the “most distress and violent” community in San Francisco, according to the grant proposal....
"One of the largest investigations ever to make the link between childhood trauma and adult problems, including violence, is the seminal Adverse Childhood Experiences study of 17,000 adults carried out by the Centers for Disease Control and Kaiser Permanente...."
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