"Violence Interrupters"

"D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser announced a slew of expanded violence prevention efforts on Thursday, seeking to reduce gun violence as the city records its highest homicide count in 16 years. The Office of Neighborhood Safety and Engagement, a D.C. agency that works across the city’s departments to prevent violence in communities, will be expanding its violence interrupter program into three new neighborhoods: Congress Park in Ward 8, Shaw in Ward 2, and Edgewood in Ward 5. The program aims to prevent and reduce violence by sending violence interrupters into communities, where they build relationships, engage with residents at risk of being involved in gun or violent crime, and mediate disputes before they escalate to violence. ONSE will also be sending more interrupters to the city’s already-prioritized neighborhoods, and creating a “floating” team that will work in areas not currently included in the ONSE’s initiative. All told, with the expansion, more than 80 individuals (an increase of roughly 50 people) will be working in 25 neighborhoods across D.C. Funding for the ramped-up intervention efforts comes from a $9.6 million investment of federal dollars to expand non-police and community-based violence prevention efforts in the Fiscal Year 2022 budget."

https://dcist.com/story/21/12/09/dc-violence-interruptors-gun/

I have successfully blocked signal to phone by wrapping it in several layers of aluminum foil. It was a flip phone several years ago; not sure if that would work with a modern smartphone.