The Westchester County District Attorney’s Office, in partnership with the FBI’s Westchester Safe Streets Task Force, the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, the Westchester County Department of Public Safety, the Mount Vernon Police Department, the New Rochelle Police Department and the Yonkers Police Department, launched the Gun & Gang Violence Initiative in 2021.
The goal of this initiative is to prevent violent crime utilizing a precision policing and precision prosecution model targeting repeat violent offenders through short-term and long-term violent crime investigations. Partners focus on using all available investigatory tools and techniques to build cases against violent offenders and their enablers.
This model allows for each law enforcement entity to share resources and information about cross-border criminal activity more effectively and efficiently, and provide more coordinated enforcement efforts and collaborative decisions about state, federal or joint prosecutions.
