Support to reduce violent crimes and gun violence in target areas: Suffolk, Nassau, and New York City.

The Eastern District of New York (EDNY) is an urban-metropolitan district with more than eight million residents. The District will utilize a sustained reduction in violent crime strategies to address violent crime and to reduce gun and gang violence in high crime areas of Suffolk and Nassau County, Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island. 
 
Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) funds directed to Suffolk and Nassau County will be used to implement strategies that build on the New York State sponsored Gun Involved Violence Elimination (GIVE) structure and provide enhancements to existing strategies that use crime analysis and intelligence gathering to direct its operations. PSN funds will go to the Suffolk and Nassau County Police Department for targeted enforcement and prosecution of these mostly young Top Offenders. Additionally, funding will allow for the implementation of community outreach, public education, youth initiatives, and violence protection workshops that will further the District's and the Department of Justice's joint mission to create and foster safer neighborhoods through a sustained reduction in violent crime. 
 
In addition, the EDNY will concentrate PSN attention on shooting incidents in Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island. The New York City Police Department (NYPD) will support its efforts to address shootings in these boroughs. As a whole, New York City has experienced a precipitous increase in gun violence since the pandemic began, predominantly driven by a small group of offenders. The NYPD will continue to support an experienced investigative analyst to work in the United States Attorney's Office of the EDNY tasked with the analysis of shooting incidents in Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island to build federal cases against gun offenders.