LA DA Gascon losing a second top adviser amid recall effort and public fury over crime
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Alisa Blair, a key deputy and special adviser to Democratic Los Angeles DA George Gascon, is leaving her post at the end of the month for a new opportunity.
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"[It] is an organization that helps to train and manage and has contracts with various cities across the country to show public safety that includes the public is a complementary strategy to law enforcement," she said. "So, organizations work hand in hand with law enforcement but have more credible messengers and community members actually stopping violence in their own communities."
She said it's modeled after New Jersey's Newark Community Street Team, which she said helped reduce homicides there by 50% in three years.
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