Alright. Thank you so much, everyone, coming to the Pathway Tech event. Was invited to the council. I know we haven't met about two months, between, like, budget. Everyone's, like, similar which was a little hard to to get something on the books for everyone was able to make it get to to this one.
Obviously, a big shout out to the clerk's office and our law department for being here and supporting us, and we'll be getting the post office once we take the. Chairperson Miguel Sanchez? Present. Co chair Corey Jones?
Present. Alan Williams is absent. Detective David Perez is absent. Michael Stevens?
Robert Bailey is absent. James Moncero is absent. Lisa Warren? Here. Juan Carter is absent.
And PJ Fox is absent. You have a 778 accent. You have a phone. No. I'm sorry.
Alright. Awesome. So we'll get started on our agenda item. As you guys are aware, Doug McCormick was his intern in the council office for quite some time while he was completing his master's. And he did a presentation around the work that we're talking about, a lot of Korean environment intervention stuff.
So I'll kick it off to Doug, and he's gonna go over his presentation. We'll have a brief we'll have a discussion on the presentation, then we'll continue with the other agenda items.
Can we get a motion to enter this presentation as an exhibit? Motion that. Second. All in favor? Aye aye.
Aye. Any days? Okay. Door is yours, by the way.
Alright, guys. Thank you so much for having me today. I am Douglas McCormack. I have an MSW, recently graduated from college. And this is an analytical framework for evaluating community violence interventions and projects for.
Now that's a mouthful of organ on the side. You guys can skip over the table of contents page, which is gonna be following the title page and the rights of the introduction. So before we go really deep into the data, I wanna first talk a little bit about the context. Gun violence is a leading cause of premature death in The United States, disproportionately affecting marginalized communities. In Providence specifically, violence is concentrated in historically domestic neighborhoods, and seventy nine percent of victims are 30 with perpetuated cycle of trauma.
The main purpose of this research was to develop a framework for evaluating community based interventions addressing gun violence, to assess how the funding mechanisms fluctuate and identify any key indicators and limitations to measuring long term. For the methodology of this research, we combined mixed methods to look at prime data analysis, some of the funding, and we could also make some community surveys. We used Excel for the quantitative side, which was the prime trends and the funding, and then thematic coding to do the qualitative side and switch the community perceptions to. The Can you just stop the
site there? Sure. Okay. We just got the rough record reflect the. So.
sorry, No. No problem. Ethical considerations, I just wanted to point out about ensuring everything was confidential, that we did the proper informed consent, and then gathering data survey and then making sure we had diverse representation in that data as well. They you know, the concern was prioritizing community's voice, using Spanish based language, and an accurate representation of the research findings. Some resources and challenges that I included were leveraging resources, law enforcement data, and our community partnerships.
Some challenges included inconsistent data tracking and limited time and funding, which shared urban was familiar with that area in a lot of cases. I just put at the bottom there gun violence, but not just a crime problem. So public health crisis required. So as I mentioned before, we're gonna look at three main key areas. We're gonna look at the prime data.
That is we separated it between violent crime and ventilated violent crime. I'll get more specific about that as we reach that point. The funding, which is gonna be looking at the city grant and and block grant funding, that that through these various agencies and then the stakeholder perspective piece, which was the the surveys that
K. So you should have 1.1 violent crime in front of you. First thing we looked at was violent crime by district, and I think it's important to preface by saying the way Providence Police Department defines violent crime as offenses that include homicide, forcible sex offenses, robbery, riddled without a firearm, and aggravated assault with it without a firearm. Those are essentially the six categories of data that are tracked to identify what violent crime is and violence. Some key observations when looking at that data were in District 2.
We had Upper and lower South Providence, Elmoyn, consistently holding the largest share of violent crime in both of the years they reviewed, indicating ongoing challenges to public safety. District 4, while also historically high crime areas, showed a slight decrease in 2024 but remains among the most affected. District 1, Dabtown, experienced a substantial increase in its share of unprime, and District 9 continues at the lowest share. K? So, again, these are just some key, you know, observations that we were able to pull from examining, 2023 to 2024 prime data.
Sure. Yeah. Would it be easier for you for us to save any question or comments at the end?
Or should I do have a section for question and comments at the end, but if you guys have something
Yeah. If anyone needs any, like, questions or anything like that, feel free to to jump in. So we're all on the
And, of course, if I'm moving too quickly, say that, I have a tendency to do so. So I think it
was fantastic for. Thank you. Excellent.
On the following page, I have a visual representation of kind of those key observations that I shared with you a minute ago. You can see, obviously, you know, the report for left side of that graph and the two showing that, you know, really, level you know, high share of iron and prime in that area. You can also see the uptick in the iron and prime in District 1.
Overall, I'm I'm looks like this year's seven is, like, about 34%, and then the other ones is nonnegative, higher than 20% in one district.
Right. So and and I would say we'll we'll kinda get there, but, you know, where I went with that is essentially you can see that while you may have lower or reducing, violent crime rates in some areas, sometimes that's accompanied by a increased standard. Done time specific. So even if the overall violent crime rate has gone down, you may see increased, you know, not necessarily severity, but the type of, you know, biodiversity. So I'm sorry.
We're on. Here's a chart that's representing that same data. And then if you go to the next page, just right around what you were talking about there, Corey. I that's what I really wanted to highlight here. So the chart may be a bit to look at at first glance, but, essentially, what I've been trying to highlight is these districts where you saw, you know, an increase of a certain or or an increase in a certain type of crime in in the district, but then, you know, the opposite effects on the the gun crime in that area.
So I think, a great, you know, exam all of this would be you're looking at just before, which I highlighted, I think I wanna get highlighted for you guys too. We saw a 3.1% decrease in violent crime from 2023 to 2024. However, the rates of violent gun crime in that same district went up 4% in that same time period. So that's kinda illustrated those, you know, those gaps that I was talking about earlier. You can see a little bit in District 6 And 1 as well where it's just kinda trending in opposite directions.
That's really what I was getting to highlight there. With that, you know, a drop in total crime doesn't always make the community safer than violence, sex, or more lasting trauma, fear. And that, you know, as again, we talked about violence. They could just be shifting in form, not necessarily increasing or decreasing. So the next page is just my recommendations with that analysis.
Essentially, I would recommend expanding evidence based CVI programs in Districts 245, And 7. And the idea here is targeting, you know, areas that are experiencing the highest rates of these crimes, you know, with that that intention of intervention. Also, some community investment, some, you know, economic and youth programs, in these high primaries to really tackle, like, the root causes of buying prime. And then, of course, I may be biased, but I would definitely recommend continuing to audit these numbers and conduct this research every year, maybe expanding the length of time, just so that we're always aware of, you know, how these trends are changing. And I did put a little disclaimer on the bottom.
I do believe a longer evaluation period than just 2023 to 2024 will be much better. Right? The time constraint is really the reason why we're only looking at this point here. Again, this is a framework. It's not necessarily completely sent to you.
Cool. On the next page, I also had a visual representation done by the great planning department here in the city of Providence. They really helped me, you know, get this together on the page. And, essentially, what you're looking at is in District 4 And 7, those are what I define in my report as hotspots for, violent gun crime in 2024 in Providence. So by hotspot, I mean, an area that has 15% or greater of the total, like, prime of Providence.
Yellow being warning zones, which is similar except it's five percent to 4699. And then, you'll see in the with no color over there, the districts one eighty nine, it's just saying, okay. Less than 5%. Alright. How are you feeling?
Good. Alright. Next, we're gonna talk about funding analysis. That was a another piece for this research that I thought was very important to put in the hope we had this guy connected. You should have another chart in front of you.
Okay? It's got 12 agencies on it. Take note of the five in bold at the top. Those are the agencies that are gonna be represent represented in the following charts on the next slide since they know that. But I really thought it was important to include all these agencies here because it does include what I call CVI adjacent agencies.
So while they may not be directly involved in community violence intervention work, they do do a lot to address root causes of gun violence. Oh, so you you said which five are in bold? I'm sorry. So on the on the top of that, it says 2.1 CVI funding 2022 to 2025. The five agencies listed on the top left are Bolden.
So we have Institute, Family Service of Rhode Island, Open Doors, Famous House, and the Johnson Community Center. Those are the only agencies that are gonna be represented to file with Raspin. The other ones are just included to give you guys kind of this overview of, like, all the different ways these agencies can touch CVI. Thank you. Alright.
So next slide. Gonna be a lot of graphs coming up here for the next few. This is just looking at total CDI funding by year. So for the funding analysis, we looked at 2022 to 2025. We have about four fiscal year worth of data here.
So little, you know, a lot more to look at compared to compared to the prior data. You'll notice that the highest amount of funding was in fiscal year twenty four, twenty three, twenty four. Next slide. I just broke it down by type. So, again, know, I only included city grant funding and community development block grant funding in this particular bit of research.
