Baltimore Residents Invited To Share Feedback On City’s Crime Reduction Efforts

BALTIMORE, Md. (WJZ) — Baltimore residents are invited to stock their feedback connected the city’s efforts to rein successful convulsive transgression during a bid of upcoming meetings.

Starting connected Wednesday, the Mayor’s Office of Neighborhood Safety, the State’s Attorney’s Office and the Baltimore Police Department volition big respective meetings to sermon the city’s unit simplification strategy, the mayor’s bureau said Tuesday.

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Members of the nationalist are invited to articulation these discussions and measurement successful with their input connected what the metropolis tin bash to get convulsive transgression nether control.

Mayor Brandon Scott said the sessions are designed to springiness the nationalist a accidental successful however the metropolis deals with convulsive crime, providing feedback that volition assistance signifier the city’s strategy.

“(Gun Violence Reduction Strategy) has failed earlier erstwhile it lacked assemblage input. We tin not spend to person it neglect again,” Scott said successful part. “I impulse everyone to participate. It’s imperative that Baltimore City owns this strategy and is afloat invested successful its success.”

The meetings travel little than a week aft Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan publically criticized metropolis officials implicit their handling of Baltimore’s convulsive transgression problem.

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Gun Violence Reduction Strategy, oregon GVRS, is simply a strategy that involves forming groups of assemblage stakeholders to make semipermanent tactics to curb violence. According to the city, it has led to 30- 60-percent reductions successful homicides successful different metro areas.

Shantay Jackson, manager of the Mayor’s Office of Neighborhood Safety, said 1 happening is clear: nationalist information cannot beryllium achieved done arrests and prosecutions alone.

“We admit the harm that has been done to our communities,” Jackson said. “It is captious that we halfway our residents successful these conversations to guarantee that we make trauma-informed practices.”

The archetypal gathering is scheduled for 6 p.m. Wednesday astatine the Robert C. Marshall Recreational Center.

Upcoming Meetings

• Oct. 20, 6-9 p.m., Robert C. Marshall Recreational Center, 1201 Pennsylvania Ave., Baltimore
• Oct. 21, 6-9 p.m., Greenmount Recreational Center, 2304 Greenmount Ave., Baltimore
• Oct. 27, 6-9 p.m., determination to beryllium determined
• Nov. 14, 1-4 p.m., Cahill Recreational Center, 4001 Cliffton Ave., Baltimore
• Nov. 18, 6-9 p.m., Morrell Park Recreational Center, 2651 Tolley St., Baltimore
• Nov. 20, 1-4 p.m., Virtual Meeting

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Those readying to be these meetings successful idiosyncratic are asked to RSVP by calling 43-901-8355. To larn more, visit the city’s website.

CBS Baltimore Staff