Smart Policies for Building Trust and Reducing Gang Violence
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This conference workshop presentation discusses the Los Angeles Police Department's Gang Reduction & Youth Development program that was created to prevent gang violence. Gang violence represents a long-term public safety challenge in Los Angeles. There are an estimated 450 gangs in Los Angeles and over half of all homicides each year are gang-related. The City takes a unique, comprehensive approach to preventing retaliatory gang violence through the Gang Reduction & Youth Development (GRYD) Incident Response Program - a coordinated, formalized response to incidents of gang-related violence through a partnership comprised of the Los Angeles Police Department, community-based gang intervention workers, and staff from the Mayor's GRYD Office. Collectively, this triad supports violence reduction while also building community trust, enhancing legitimacy, and ensuring the voices of the community are heard.
This conference workshop is interpreted in Arabic, French, Portuguese, and Spanish.
Reginald Zachery
Program Manager, Gang Reduction & Youth Development, Los Angeles Mayor's Office of Public Safety
Anne Tremblay
Director, Gang Reduction & Youth Development, Los Angeles Mayor's Office of Public Safety
Anne Tremblay currently serves as the director of Mayor Eric Garcetti's Office of Gang Reduction & Youth Development (GRYD), a component of the Mayor's Office of Public Safety. GRYD coordinates city-funded prevention, intervention, violence interruption, juvenile reentry, and juvenile diversion services in 23 areas of the city using a comprehensive approach. GRYD's mission is to improve the overall health and well-being of youth, young adults, families, and communities, and provide positive alternatives to promote prosocial decisions and behaviors. Anne also oversees the City's Summer Night Lights program which keeps parks open late to create safe, inclusive spaces in 32 neighborhoods throughout the City. Anne began her career as a deputy district attorney in Orange County (CA) in 1996 where she tried cases in the juvenile and superior courts. She joined the Office of the Los Angeles City Attorney in 2002 to work as a neighborhood prosecutor assigned to the Los Angeles Police Department's Newton Division in South Los Angeles. In this position, she worked with the police, city agencies, and area stakeholders on projects designed to improve the quality of life for area residents and increase community safety. Anne later supervised the City Attorney's Anti-Gang Section where she led the office's gang, graffiti, and gun violence reduction strategies. Anne is the author of the LISC/MetLife Foundation Community Paper Series publication Beyond Community Policing: Engaging Prosecutors in Community Safety Partnerships and is a co-author of Creative Problem Solving and the Law, a call for innovation and cross-sector collaboration in our criminal justice system published as part of the Bureau of Justice Assistance Executive Session on Police Leadership for the 21st Century. Anne provides training and consults on public safety related best practices throughout the United States. Anne holds a J.D. from Emory University School of Law and a B.A. from the University of California Berkeley.
Alfred Labrada
Commander, Los Angeles, California, Police Department
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