Ok, let’s talk about this can you see these folks going to a brunch with a bunch of gangbangers talking about doing away with guns? This is almost like telling hookers not to sell sex! If gangs don’t have guns how do they defend their turf? How do they remove rivals selling drugs on their block? Come on, the problem isn’t the gun,mits the gangs, remove them!
Michael Perez / File Photograph With Philadelphia experiencing a steady uptick in homicides and shootings, Mayor Jim Kenney has pledged to roll out a gun-violence reduction strategy generally known as group violence intervention , a collaborative effort among a variety of agencies that has worked in other cities.
The idea — one of several initiatives in a sprawling plan to treat violence as a public health issue — is for law enforcement to identify a small population most likely to shoot or be shot, then continuously meet with those people to implore them to put down the guns and talk […]