Collaborating for Community Wellbeing: City-Level Policy Interventions for Public Safety

SpeakerS:

Kristen Kaufman, Deputy Commissioner, NYC Office of the Mayor
Daniel Palacios, Councilor of the City of Bogotá and Former Minister of the Interior, Republic of Colombia

Key takeaways & next steps:

  • Technology is a significant resource for endorsing public safety, enhancing the capacity of governments and public officials to monitor every inch of a city. However, this involvement of technology requires the need for a response and the resources in place to support that technology. 
  • Working to improve public safety comes with its own set of challenges. An apparent obstacle is communication between public officials and security personnel; in order to promote effective communication, the retrieval, analysis, and measurement of data must be prioritized through the use of programs like CompStat. 
  • Ensuring policy interventions are inclusive and equitable hinges on community involvement, which must remain a continual effort.

“Through meetings with community boards, religious groups, civic groups, or anyone who might be remotely affected by that policy, it’s critical that we involve them in the policy-making process.”

 

Kristen Kaufman, Deputy Commissioner, NYC Office of the Mayor

“Collaboration between all three levels of government will ensure a clear focus; when the state level, city level, and the national level work towards the same goal, then you can fight crime as a whole.”

 
Daniel Palacios, Councilor of the City of Bogotá and Former Minister of the Interior, Republic of Colombia

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