Philadelphia soliciting community feedback with public meetings on how to battle the 'tragedy of violence' in the city. KerriCorrado reports.
PHILADELPHIA — As of Tuesday, the City of Philadelphia sits at 110 homicides in 2022. It’s a tough number to say and face, and the community is being invited to show up at a series of meetings across the city over the next several weeks to give their ideas on how to stop the violence and turn things around.
Some solutions include jobs to cleaning up neighborhoods. Every option was on the table Tuesday night in hopes to stop the violence plaguing the city.Pennsylvania State Troopers Association Warns Of Fundraising Scams Following Death Of 2 Troopers In South Philly“Our meetings are different because we’re not talking at people, we’re talking with people,” said Erica Atwood, senior director for the Office of Policy and Strategic Initiatives for Criminal Justice and Public Safety.
“Folks are coming with their own answers and own solutions and we’re here to partner with them and make them come to life,” Atwood said. “Our communities and our babies are dying,” said Donnell Drinks, co-founder of Gaining Respect Over Our Worst Night, or GROWN.“Not only those reentering society, but victims or whatever your worst night was,” he said.“It’s not just one solution,” Drinks said. “I think there are a lot of them. The problem is, I think we’re looking for one solution to solve everything. We have to go to the root.”Cummings is the director of Strawberry Mansion Community Concern.
“A lot of positivity and that’s one of the things I don’t want to get overshadowed in this tragedy of violence in our community because of optimism. There’s optimism because that’s why we’re out here doing the work,” Drinks said.
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