Marc Morial
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We got Frenchman Street.
We got all kind of... So people like to be out.
But we had to deal with the fact that we had too many youth getting hurt and
We did the curfew in a very different way.
We did not take the young people we picked up off the street to jail.
We brought them to a community center.
We called it the curfew center.
And we called their parents.
Come pick up your son.
Come pick up your daughter.
No questions asked.
Come pick them up.
And it had a dramatic impact.
And so we were ideating and creating all these initiatives and these programs.
And they're trying to do things differently, right?
So we had to clean up policing.
We had to put police substations in public housing.
We put police officers on bikes.
We put them on foot.
The chief I had, Richard Pennington, was an incredible chief.