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Mayor Adams Announces City has Served Over 750 Family Members of Fatal Overdose Victims Through Firs

MAY 3 - Mayor Adams Announces City has Served Over 750 Family Members of Fatal Overdose Victims Through First-in-Nation Support Program
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Mayor Adams Announces City has Served Over 750 Family Members of Fatal Overdose Victims Through First-in-Nation Support Program​


May 3, 2024

Builds on ‘HealthyNYC’ Goals to Reduce Opioid Overdose Deaths by 25 Percent by 2030​

NEW YORK – New York City Mayor Eric Adams and New York City Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Jason Graham today announced that the city has served more than 750 family members of fatal overdose victims through a first-in-the-nation support program through the New York City Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (OCME). Since launching in late 2022, OCME’s Drug Intelligence and Intervention Group (DIIG) — a unit staffed by trained social workers and public health professionals — has offered support to surviving family members and close contacts as they cope with pressing needs in the wake of the overdose deaths of loved ones. Nearly 80 percent of those contacted, over 750 people, accepted a wide range of services, including grief and bereavement support, mental health and substance use counseling, health care, and housing support. The DIIG program builds on the city’s work toreduce opioid deaths by 25 percent by 2030 as part of ‘HealthyNYC,’ Mayor Adams’ plan to extend the lifespan of all New Yorkers.

“As the fentanyl crisis continues to ravage communities across the country, New York City is taking action to save lives and support the loved ones who have been left behind,” said Mayor Adams. “New Yorkers who lose loved ones to drug overdoses need our help without stigma, and this first-in-the-nation model will deliver the support they deserve.”

“The medical examiner’s office interacts with New Yorkers at some of the most difficult moments in their lives,” said Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services Anne Williams-Isom. “As we know in recent years, so many of those loved ones have been lost to the opioid crisis. The Drug Intelligence and Intervention Group is a team of social workers and public health professionals, one of the first models of its kind in the nation, that reach out to impacted family members and friends to provide support and a connection to a variety of services if needed. Thank you to Dr. Graham for his leadership and to the thoughtful and caring team at OCME.”

“The opioid crisis touches every community in our city, and fatal drug overdoses leave behind loved ones who often struggle in silence with unmet needs,” said Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Graham. “Our program recognizes the unique challenges facing this diverse population of New Yorkers, and evolves the role of the medical examiner to include making connections to care and services for surviving family members, with the aim of improving and even saving lives.”

“The overdose crisis has taken lives from our city and loved ones from our sides,” said New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene Commissioner Dr. Ashwin Vasan. “Supporting the loved ones of those we've lost, whether navigating the emotional impacts or accessing resources, is a valuable tool as we work together to foster a healthier New York City.”

Launched in late 2022 as the first initiative of its kind in a medical examiner’s office, DIIG has expanded from a small pilot to a fully staffed program focused on the wide-ranging needs of communities that have lost loved ones to fatal drug overdoses. The program currently reaches nearly 80 percent of the close contacts it attempts to reach. Reducing overdose deaths is central to “HealthyNYC,” the city’s ambitious health agenda that aims to increase the life expectancy of New Yorkers to 83 years by the year 2030. HealthyNYC was codified into local law last month. The major steps outlined in HealthyNYC build on the Adams administration’s efforts to create a healthier and safer city, including through programs like “Care, Community, Action: A Mental Health Plan for New York City” — the city’s plan to improve family and child mental health while addressing the overdose crisis — as well as Mayor Adams’ “Blueprint to End Gun Violence.”

“As a federal grant program that invests in partnerships to build safe and healthy communities, it is hard to imagine a better investment than the vision Dr. Graham has championed for the DIIG initiative at OCME,” said Chauncey Parker, executive director, New York/New Jersey HIDTA. “What started as a blank sheet of paper and an inspiring idea is now the national model for how a medical examiner’s team can play a vital role saving lives.”

“I am thrilled to see social workers and public health professionals engaged in such a vital program that is making a vast difference and saving lives,” said Nabila El-Bassel, professor, Columbia University School of Social Work. “While all the services offered by the DIIG program help to strengthen those grieving, the linkages to treatment and services are life saving for family members and close contacts, in order for them to come to terms with their loss and move forward. This non-stigmatized, community-driven approach should be celebrated and replicated nationwide.”
 
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NYPD texted one another to ‘Kick their a—’ before mass arrests at Black Lives Matter protest

The messages were unearthed in a pending lawsuit over police conduct during the 2020 unrest.
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NYPD texted one another to ‘Kick their a—’ before mass arrests at Black Lives Matter protest​


Gothamist: New York City Local News, Food, Arts & Events
By Samantha Max

Published Aug 27, 2024

Black Lives Matter protests in New York City

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Newly unveiled text messages show NYPD officers responding to a 2020 Black Lives Matter protest in Mott Haven encouraged one another to “HAVE FUN” and “Kick their a–” before police beat, pepper-sprayed and arrested hundreds of people, according to copies of the messages made public in connection with a pending lawsuit.

While most of the messages are mundane communications about logistics or safety concerns, some suggest that members of a controversial protest response unit were eager to make arrests and use force at the demonstration on June 4, 2020. In one text sent the day before the encounter, then-Captain Julio Delgado instructed officers, “We are looking for arrests,” and also asked, “can we plz play too?” In a message sent during the protest, Detective Jessica Lopez told Delgado to “Kick their a— tonight Capt!!”

Just moments later, officers began to shove protesters with their bikes, hit them with batons, douse them with pepper spray and arrest them, according to lawsuits and witnesses.

“It is clear that their plan was to brutalize the protesters,” said Remy Green, an attorney representing many of the Mott Haven protesters, who convinced a federal judge to order the city to release the text messages.

The NYPD and the city’s Law Department declined to comment on pending litigation.

The text messages surfaced after a federal judge made them public in response to a lawsuit brought by Shellyne Rodriguez, an artist who said officers cursed at her, shoved her face into a gate, punched her in the stomach and cuffed her wrists so tightly that her hands turned blue and she suffered nerve damage. She said she also had an asthma attack while riding in a hot van with people who had been pepper-sprayed after she was arrested.

The city has already agreed to pay more than $20,000 apiece to hundreds of protesters who were arrested at the Bronx protest. The NYPD also faced a lawsuit from the state attorney general and a mountain of civilian complaints for its response to that demonstration and others across the city in the days and months after the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.

Delgado, Lopez and others on the text chain were assigned to the Strategic Response Group, a unit that responds to protests and other major city events. Advocates have asked the NYPD to disband the team, because they say it is overly aggressive.

The city has previously said a miniscule portion of the officers who responded to the 2020 protests faced substantiated complaints, while more than 400 officers were injured and 250 were hospitalized. Last year, the NYPD agreed to change its protocols for protests. Both then-Mayor Bill de Blasio and then-Police Commissioner Dermot Shea defended officers’ response to the Mott Haven protest at the time.

Delgado, who is no longer with the department, could not be reached for comment on Tuesday. Records from the city’s police watchdog agency show he faced 11 civilian complaints during his time with the NYPD and one of them — for abusing his authority by improperly seizing property in 2019 — was substantiated. He has also been named in several lawsuits related to the 2020 protests and one civil suit filed by a former subordinate who said Delgado regularly disparaged him.

The city tried to keep the messages secret, arguing in court papers that they were irrelevant to the case and could subject Delgado to “embarrassment and harassment” or endanger his safety. But Judge Valerie Figueredo ruled last week that they should be released, because the city hadn’t proved Delgado would face serious harm and because he was a high-ranking officer in charge of the Strategic Response Group during the protest.

The detectives’ union did not immediately respond to an inquiry regarding Lopez’s messages. NYPD records show she is a detective in the Strategic Response Group and has not been subject to any civilian complaints.

Jillian Snider, a retired NYPD officer who now teaches at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, said the 2020 demonstrations were especially emotional for police because protesters were criticizing their profession.

“People were not happy with us at that moment in time,” she said. “It only takes one extremist in that group of a thousand peaceful people to turn a situation volatile and dangerous. And that's how we have always been trained.”

No matter what the protest is about, Snider said, police need to have good communication skills and not take protests too personally. She also said officers shouldn’t spend more than two or three years in a unit that constantly dispatches them to protests. Anyone assigned to the Strategic Response Group or another specialized unit should be able to handle themselves in any type of situation, she added.

But Snider said it’s difficult to judge the text messages out of context, without knowing the officers’ intentions. She said messages encouraging one another to “have a fun safe night,” for instance, reflect typical communications between officers trying to lighten the mood before conducting a serious job.

But Green, the attorney for the Mott Haven demonstrators, said the texts suggest that using violence against certain protesters was like a “game” to some police.

“I think it just speaks to a culture of total unaccountability and gleeful violence against people they politically disagree with,” said Green.


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