Residents fed up with gun violence in their neighborhoods sat down with city officials Tuesday night in North Philadelphia to share ideas on what could save lives as the gun violence crisis worsens.
"If we don’t continue to stay on track and recognize what are the issues that are kind of the root causes to the violence that we are seeing, we are never going to come out of this," Senior Director of Criminal Justice and Public Safety Erica Atwood said.
North Philadelphia in particular has dealt with a number of recent shootings, including a 15-year-old boy who police sayand was later linked to two other shootings involving teens as young as 14. "Unfortunately, we cannot be fully effective at our jobs with the current staffing and resource crisis at Temple," Temple University Police Association wrote on its Facebook page. "Ineffectiveness is NOT a result of lack of effort. We care deeply about our community, and it's overall safety."
"We can’t get caught up in the hysteria and start leading down the road of mass incarceration and then labeling people in the wrong direction and try to find incentive measures and try to intervene before it gets to that point," a community member said.
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