Posted on 02/14/2023 4:33:39 PM PST by Libloather
Los Angeles, California city officials announced a new public safety initiative which implements yoga, meditation and healing circles to homeless communities as an alternative form of unarmed policing. The initiative's launch cost the city of Los Angeles $2.2 million in city funding.
At a briefing on Monday, Councilwoman Monica Rodriguez, who chairs the City Council's public safety committee, announced the Project TURN initiative-which stands for Therapeutic Unarmed Response for Neighborhoods. The initiative aims at providing trauma training and services to 100 community intervention workers to tackle retaliatory violence.
"Community-based public safety workers are regularly exposed to high trauma environments and providing comprehensive training and support is an important tenet of how our City will deliver transformative change and strengthen our public safety response and create more equitable investment in a community based public safety model," Rodriguez said on Monday, according to FOX Los Angeles.
Project TURN hopes that therapy, yoga, meditation, and healing circle will reduce the need for officers to engage in the homeless neighborhoods scattered across Los Angeles. The effectiveness of Project TURN will in part be determined by how successful the workers continue to be in deescalating situations, according to Rodriguez.
"That's the whole point, is that we want to avoid the crisis before we're in one," Rodriguez said.
Homelessness has become a pressing issue in Los Angeles as local leaders continue to feel pressure to address the matter amid increasing housing costs.
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They moved it to 9:00 so as not to interfere with other activities after midnight. 🙄😂👍
Holy Hannah....I read the headline and thought “The Bee really uncorked a great one.” Smh
Mexicans don’t play basketball.
Aw, Midnight basketball. I had some interesting conversations with a highly liberal friend about that at the time slick Willy was proposing it. It’s when I first started to realize that you are pissing in the wind to talk logic with a liberal. It was a joke
Midnight basketball ball lost it’s funding to Obama’s tire pressure guages.
I thought it was the Bee also. SMH hard enough to risk concussion.
Yeah, that's what the homeless need. That's a much better use of $2.2 million dollars. I'm sure the homeless will turn out in droves.
Well...good luck I guess.
Come see me in 6 months when this shitshow quietly disappears..
That will definitely work. Right?
Hmmm. Gang bang or yoga class?
It sounds like da yoots are going to have tough decisions to make.
I am sure the “lotus” position will be transformed into the “praying mantis” position.
“Yoga??? We don’ need no stinkin’ yoga!!!!!”
“That’s an oval, it has to be a circle.”
I was certain this was the Bee
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