Here's what they found: 60% percent of violence intervention workers said they have witnessed an attempted shooting, 32% saw someone get shot, 20% have been shot at and 2% have been shot and injured on the job.
Damien Morris is the Senior Director of Violence Prevention at Breakthrough Urban Ministries. He said street outreach workers are, adding that"the men and women who have local experience, lived experience, they are trustworthy, they are credible and they are committed to seeing a better community." The study's co-lead was Andrew Papachristos. He is a sociology professor at Northwestern University. He is also director of the Northwestern Neighborhood and Network Initiative.
"Back in 2016 there was another spike in violence in Chicago. And after that outreach organizations in the city were really trying to revamp and rebuild efforts to coordinate. To make sure that best practices were instilled, that training was happening. And we actually couldn't answer some very basic questions about the workforce," he said.
As for the study's findings, Morris said"I wasn't surprised but that speaks to the importance of us really acknowledging the street outreach worker as a first responder. So put them in the same category as a police officer as well as a firefighter. because when they operate and when they're going to these scenes they do not have a badge, they do not have a gun.""The study of outreach workers themselves," said Papachristos.
Along with everyone else in Chicago. Your point?
Here is another little tid but…who lease faces these things? 100% of Police, Fire, and EMT’s. But nice study for the mostly gangbangers “street outreach workers”