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The weekly meetings are meant to bring together school leaders with the NYPD to discuss safe passage programs, how the police can support schools after school, or how to respond when incidents occur, among other topics. 

While local organizations have launched a number of preventive programs and support services in their communities aimed at quelling the violence, they know there are no easy answers to getting a lid on the crisis. The run of recent violent episodes involving teenagers has magnified a longstanding problem.

The victim is in critical condition.