Minneapolis Community Safety Commissioner Todd Barnett is weighing in on City Council’s plan to shift the city’s violence interrupter contracts over to Hennepin County. Barnett calls the move a ...

Anger was already simmering over the death of Justin Robinson, 25, a resident of Southeast Washington who was employed as a violence interrupter with D.C.’s Cure the Streets program. He worked ...

Briyon Shuford was paid by the District as a violence interrupter at the time of the shooting that injured four people. On May 9, 2024, a federal grand jury indicted Shuford on charges of fentanyl ...