Building Blocks D.C. focuses prevention efforts on the most dangerous blocks, but some worry it has lost its focus
the city opened a Gun Violence Prevention Emergency Operations Center, staffed by workers from across government. Officials said they coordinated efforts to put violence interrupters on the streets to quell disputes, get people into jobs and job training, and clean up rundown areas. Thousands of dollars of grant funding went to community groups trying to help.
“I want to support Building Blocks DC,” D.C. Council member Charles Allen , who chairs the public safety committee, told one of Bowser’s deputy mayors at a recent hearing. “But I’m struggling, as a lot of people are, to understand what it is.”Allen, whose committee has legislative oversight over D.C. police and other public safety entities, said the emergency operations center was a key selling point, as was a director “empowered to marshal resources.
City Administrator Kevin Donahue said the emergency operations center, staffed by city workers putting in extra hours, helped to jump-start the effort but was not a permanent solution. On one Building Blocks block on Cedar Street SE, near where an 11-year-old was killed in 2020, violence interrupters mediated a historic feud and led several people into a job training program with full-time coaching,
, the institute said it had found that a few hundred people were responsible for up to 70 percent of the city’s gun violence. Most victims and suspects are Black men, the report found, and nearly half had previously been jailed or imprisoned, or were on court-ordered supervision.Personal disputes topped the list of motives in homicides, at 20 percent, although the reason for nearly just as many killings remained unknown.
He said the program is helping him to get a fresh start and provide for his four children. “Absolutely it’s an incentive,” he said, adding that in his own way, he’s now “cleaning up the city.”Another core component of Building Blocks is its grant program, which agency leaders say supports community members who have their own solutions to make people safer.
Harllee Harper said Building Blocks is working to communicate better within the government and with residents. She said that includes a forthcoming dashboard with performance metrics that will be publicly “There was no reaching out from the city to see if the Judah Project would be interested; $5,000 is a band-aid on a broken leg,” White said. “D.C. needs sustained funding for ongoing, successful community programs to be truly effective in reducing gun violence, rather than fragmented responses.”
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