City launches latest GIVE initiative targeting elimination of gun violence

Jul. 22—It didn't take long for the newest version of New York's GIVE (Gun Involved Violence Elimination) program to take hold on the streets of th...

July 22, 2023
5:28 PM

Jul. 22—It didn't take long for the newest version of New York's GIVE (Gun Involved Violence Elimination) program to take hold on the streets of the Falls. Just moments after a group of city, county, state and federal law enforcement officers pulled away from Falls Police headquarters on Saturday night, the radio airwaves crackled with the shouts of NFPD Narcotics Intelligence Division detectives chasing a man they had encountered outside a gun violence hot spot. The detectives had pulled up to the corner of Ashland Avenue and 19th Street, the location of a business known on the streets as the "Ashland store.

Rick Pfeiffer