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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What we need is more resources put into violence interruption. I live in a neighborhood where people shoot at each other.  I appreciate that the police are doing the best they can but they show up after the shots are fired. And they can't do much to investigate and find the perpetrators because people in the neighborhood don't trust them to keep them save. Case in point - a young woman clammed up on the witness stand about a murder she'd seen in my neighborhood because she was apparently afraid that the guy on trial would kill her for testifying. We need more folks working pro-actively who are trusted in the neighborhood to help prevent shootings.[/quote]
PP again.  Here's a link to a WaPo article about this trial which reflects some of the difficult problems we face in this neighborhood. The police are doing their best but when people don't feel safe they're not going to stand up for what is right. 
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/dc-man-found-not-guilty-in-fatal-shooting-of-16-year-old-girl/2019/02/08/868ee59a-2bef-11e9-984d-9b8fba003e81_story.html[/quote]

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