Excerpt From a Letter to the New York Governor, the Honorable Andrew M. Cuomo
Dear Governor Cuomo:
Your broader focus on ecologic leadership components of ethics, openness, and reinventing governmental agencies – are the most promising effective leadership archetypes for this State and nation’s economic downturns. Your address was not public relations (“PR”) but public leadership.
Many specialty experts have offered you their descriptive categorical perspectives on impacts to suburbs of ethics, on taxes, of manpower and about the size and services of government (Albany Times Union, Perspectives, 1/2/11). Those descriptions, of course, are needed – however, the art of governance – just as my professional focus on violence and injury prevention and control with a public health perspective – one of the leading cause of youth death, disability and economic losses - to be dealt with scientifically, must be based not on descriptive categorizations, but on broader etiologic components and on known evidence-based mixes of countermeasures. For proven urban violence injury prevention, the ecological interventions of Chicago and NYS Cease Fire, separate in the medical center the gun shot person’s physical and biological energy from a predictable follow-up revenge shooting and concurrently activates positive community safety values with end results of proven cost containment and savings.
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