Hope Not Handcuffs
The Tuxedo Park Police Department has joined several other police departments in Orange and Rockland Counties to aid those with addiction problems by partnering with the Hope Not Handcuffs initiative. The program is designed to help people with drug or alcohol abuse problems.
This is another resource we are providing to the Tuxedo Park Community. We are going to help them while treating them with respect and compassion when they walk through our door seeking help. Addiction is a chronic disease that is compulsive and very difficult to control.
While Tuxedo Park has very little to no crime and no identified drug problem, any community can have residents who have an addiction regardless of their social or economic status.
In addition, with the Hope Not Handcuffs program and the Criminal Diversion Program through the Orange County District Attorney’s Office, we will be using criminal diversion for low-level, non-violent crimes. If a person who commits a low-level crime has a substance abuse addiction and agrees to enter the program, they will be placed in a Treatment and Recovery program in lieu of being arrested and possibly incarcerated.