NYC shells out $6M in taxpayer dollars for shrinks to treat ex-con ‘violence interrupters’
The city is paying millions of dollars to provide therapy to violence interrupter groups that are staffed with ex-cons, The Post has learned.
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Metro exclusive NYC shells out $6M in taxpayer dollars for shrinks to treat ex-con ‘violence interrupters’ By Tina Moore Published June 13, 2026, 7:22 a.m. ET See more of our coverage in your search results. Add The New York Post on Google Ex-con “violence interrupters” hired in some of the Big Apple’s roughest neighborhoods to stop crimes before cops get involved are getting millions of dollars worth of free therapy, The Post has learned. NYC has shelled out $1.2 million of a $6 million contract with Agape Moments LLC to create the “Strong Messenger Program,” providing counseling to the interrupters, often ex-cons with violent histories dispatched to quell tensions between gangs they may have once belonged to.
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