Welcome to Don't Cop Out, the show that challenges everything you think you know about public safety.

I'm your host, William C. Anderson.

Each episode, I'll introduce you to a community safety responder who's leading the charge and creating alternatives to policing.

Together, we'll debunk common myths about what keeps us unsafe and introduce you to the people proving that true safety doesn't require a badge or a gun.

Today, I'm speaking with Darius Crockett, a Baton Rouge community street team.

Let's get into it.

Welcome, Darius. How you doing today?

What's going all big, brother? How you doing, man? How you doing today?

I'm good. I'm good.

I'm good.

So I'm really excited to be talking to you and this conversation's been a long time coming.

And one of the things I want to do is just kind of jump right into talking about some of the myths and misconceptions that might come with the type of work

that you do. Okay. So many people believe that the police are the only way to respond to safety

concerns. How would you say that you might challenge that idea through your work? Well, I would say

through this community violence intervention strategy that we're using here in Baton Well, I would say through this community violence intervention

strategy that we're using here in Baton Rouge, I would say it's very instrumental because we're able

to get in and not only are able to get Intel, we're able to stop certain situations to keep people

from getting their self into into situations with the justice system. So we really, we really a

compliment to the police department if they really

were to look at it because when we come on scene and somebody been murdered and y'all

out there dealing with a family and his yellow tape up, y'all don't necessarily know how

to deal with the people on the other side of the yellow tape, opposed to somebody that's from the community,

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