Sinai Hospital in northwest Baltimore is testing a new way to stop violence before it reaches the emergency room: the Digital Violence Responder.
Hired through the hospital’s Center for Hope, the responder monitors social media for credible threats and alerts a call center that sends trained mediators to defuse the conflicts.
It’s not a police dispatch center, but a community-run operation led by Street Pause, a nonprofit founded by Lisa Freedom Jones, who also leads Sinai’s Violence Intervention Program…