To Reduce Crime

The Bridgehampton Child Care and Recreational Center will bring in the deputy commissioner of the Suffolk County Police Department for a talk on Monday in its Thinking Forward Lecture Series.

Deputy Commissioner Risco Mention-Lewis will discuss the department’s community-based intervention strategy “for reaching our children, to reduce crime while creating a new moral community voice.”

The department credits this community-based strategy with recently reducing violent crime by 39 percent and property crime by 46 percent.

The talk will begin at 7 p.m. at the center, which is at 551 Bridgehampton-Sag Harbor Turnpike. Those wishing to attend have been asked to email Bonnie Michelle Cannon, the center’s executive director, at [email protected], or call 537-0616, extension 16.