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A
And
we
welcome
you
back
to
black
pittsburgh
matters.
Black
pittsburgh
matters
is
a
series
of
virtual
town
hall
meetings,
affirming
a
city-wide
agenda
that
black
pittsburgh
does
indeed
matter.
Black
pittsburgh
matters
means
that
black
lives
matter.
We
must
protect
the
health
and
safety
of
black
people.
It
means
the
black
communities
matter.
We
must
focus
on
rebuilding
black
communities
and
it
means
that
black
wealth
matters.
We
must
focus
on
increasing
black
employment
and
entrepreneurial
shift.
B
Community
has
been
disproportionately
affected
by
concurrent
crises,
one
the
kovic
19
pandemic
and
its
resulting
economic
crisis
and
then,
secondly,
race
relations,
which
is
a
public
health
crisis.
Normally
in
times
of
great
change
in
in
crisis,
we'll
be
coming
to
you
as
the
black
elected
officials
of
pittsburgh,
having
meetings
across
the
city
with
our
constituents,
partners
and
allies,
since
we
cannot
do
so
safely
in
the
current
pandemic.
B
We're
now
using
this
media
and
platform
to
come
to
you
in
the
ways
in
which
we
can
to
talk
about
what
we're
doing,
discuss
policy
and
legislation
concerning
black
pittsburgh.
These
means
will
be
available
via
facebook
youtube
and
the
city's
cable
channel.
You
can
contact
or
ask
questions
via
the
black
pittsburgh
matters,
facebook,
page
or
email
us
at
matters
at
gmail.com,
and
certainly
you
can
message
us
through
our
live
feed
right
now.
Today's
town
hall
meeting
topic
is
health
safety
and
violence
prevention
initiative.
A
B
With
the
mayor
mayor
peduto,
we
also
introduced
the
health,
safety
and
violence
provision
initiative.
This
houses,
the
office
of
community
health
and
safety,
which
offers
comprehensive,
wrap
around
social
services
to
those
most
in
need,
but
the
office
of
community
services
and
violence
prevention
was
tasked
with
community
embedded
violence,
prevention
and
conflict
resolution.
Together.
These
twin
offices
provide
comprehensive,
comprehensive
resources
to
tackle
both
the
social,
economic,
social,
economic
and
personal
causes
of
violence
and
hardship,
thus
working
together.
B
A
Yeah,
which
is
critical,
obviously
in
the
city
council,
we
held
it
today
and
we're
going
to
have
a
a
public
conversation
about
that
and
why
it
needs
support
and
why
we
need
to
pass
it,
but
the
legislation
we
passed
this
past
summer
that
really
helped
to
expand
gvi
citywide
and
make
it
a
full-time
was
really
one
of
the.
I
believe,
sort
of
prouder
moments
that
we've
had
this
year.
A
To
be
able
to
take
this
city-wide
and
have
just
a
tremendous
impact
on
our
city
is
something
that
we
should
be
really
really
proud
of,
and
shortly
we'll
hear
from
them
and
they'll.
They
can
better
explain
what
they
do
and
how
they
do
it.
But
I
just
want
to
go
on
the
record
and
publicly
thank
them
for
the
years
of
service
they've
already
put
in,
and
what
they're
going
to
do.
Moving
forward
as
well.
B
Yeah,
I
agree
it's
if
all
the
things
that
we
have
done
this
this
group
initiative,
this
group
violence
initiative
in
public
safety,
has
been
in
terms
of
black
people,
the
lives
of
black
people,
one
of
the
most
significant
things
that
either
one
of
us
have
done.
Since
we've
been
members
of
council,
we
are
honored
to
be
joined
today
by
jay
gilmer
to
stop
the
violence
coordinator
for
the
pittsburgh
department
of
public
safety,
devon.
A
So
to
begin,
maybe
we
could
start
with
yeah,
since
I
had
some
remarks
about
it.
Maybe
jay,
if
you
can
give
us
sort
of
a
comprehensive
overview
of
what
the
program
is,
how
it
got
started.
Obviously
reverend
burgess,
who
was
instrumental
in
that,
can
also
chime
in
but
then
after
we
get
sort
of
the
comprehensive
overview
of
the
program,
maybe
both
vaughn
and
valerie.
If
you
all
would
be
willing
to
chime
in
and
talk
about
the
day-to-day
work
of
it.
D
E
D
So
we
want
to
thank
you
for
that,
and
thanks
for
giving
me
a
chance
to
talk
about
our
primary
program
through
the
office
of
community
services
and
bonds
prevention,
which
is
our
group
violence,
intervention
strategy,
and
I
want
to
call
it
a
strategy
rather
than
a
program,
because
it
really
is,
it
begins
with
a
principle
and
that
the
and
the
the
principle
is
really
that
the
immediate
cause
of
street
violence,
the
immediate
cause,
what
happens
the
actual
gun
they
get
fired
is
basically
you
know,
in
the
words
of
a
new
york
times,
article
that
young
men
who
are
bored,
broken
armed
bored,
broken
armed
and
they're
fighting
over
girls
and
pride.
D
So
with
that,
that's
with
that.
That's
what
brings
the
yeah?
That's
the
cultural
piece
of
this
that
creates
this
this
this
desire,
I
know,
there's
all
everyone
think
it
had
its
own
individual
story,
but
when
you
begin
with
that,
then
you
can
really
realize
that
the
solution
is
not
really
as
complicated
as
we
might
want
to
make.
It
appear.
D
There's
some
underlying
causes
that
cause
people
to
be
bored
broken
armed,
but
but
those
are
those
are
not
what
causes
the
actual
gun
to
get
fired
on
a
street
corner
or
at
night
or
after
a
party
or
or
in
somebody's
driveway
gvr.
Our
group
fires
intervention
strategy
is
a
strategy
to
reduce
shootings
and
homicides
in
urban
neighborhoods
by
using
a
three-pronged
strategy.
Three
prongs
that
are
relatively
simple,
to
explain
and
to
take
a
lifetime
to
perfect.
The
number
first
is
a
it's:
a
partnership
of
law
enforcement
with
the
community.
D
For
a
long
time,
we've
assumed
that
law
enforcement
can
solve
this
problem
by
themselves
that,
if
you
just
have
enough
police
officers
and
enough
corners
that'll
stop
it.
It
does.
We've
proven
that
that
does
not
work,
there's
a
role
for
the
law
enforcement
to
play,
of
course,
but
it's
not
they're
not
going
to
solve
this
problem
by
themselves.
D
The
second
component
is
in
store,
is
it
is
informed
street
outreach
and
social
services
to
redirect
high-risk
individuals
and
then
thus
prevent
violence
when
you,
when
you
know
that
somebody
is
bored
broken
armed,
you
know
that
you
know
that
person
by
name,
you
can
speak
to
that
person.
They
will
usually
tell
you,
they
don't
want
to
kill
anybody
and
they
don't
want
to
be
killed
themselves.
D
So,
if
you,
but
you've
got
to
be
close
enough
to
be
able
to
have
that
conversation
and
to
know
what
to
do
with
that
person
once
they
tell
you
what
their
real
problem
may
be,
you've
got
to
have
some
way
to
resolve
a
conflict.
You've
got
to
have
some
other
way
to
use
that
time.
You've
got
to
have
something
else,
to
divert
that
person
from
just
doing.
D
What's
on
his
mind
right
now
and
if
you're
too
tired
from
working
all
day,
you're
not
out
there
shooting
anybody,
and
then
the
third
component
of
the
group
finds
intervention
strategy
is
an
enfor,
our
informed
community
members
who
are
creating
new
community
norms,
respect
to
violence
and
actually
rejecting
violence
as
the
way
to
solve
your
problems.
D
You
know
in
some
in
most
neighborhoods
in
the
city
of
pittsburgh,
if
you,
if,
if
someone
is
shot
on
the
street,
all
neighbors,
everyone
within
earshot
of
that
event
will
hear
a
sound,
they
will
call
the
police
they
will.
If
they
know
who's
involved,
they
will
call
someone.
They
will
tell
someone
they'll
report
it
before
that
person
gets
back
to
their
home.
Their
police
will
be
waiting
for
them,
some
communities
that
doesn't
happen.
D
D
D
It
comes
in
all
over
the
place,
so
these
are
the
basic
components
of
the
gvi
strategy.
It's
long
for
a
partnership
with
law
enforcement
and
they're
also
working
to
improve
the
relationship
between
law
enforcement
and
community
members,
especially
those
and
high-risk
communities.
D
It's
informed
street
outreach
and
social
services
to
the
redirect
high-end
risk
individuals
and
it's
involved
community
members
reinforcing
community
norms
that
then
reject
violence.
All
these
things
start
to
work.
Then
you
actually
start
to
see
a
change
in
violence.
You
start
to
see
lower
numbers
of
homicides
and
hopefully,
at
the
you
know,
if
a
few
years
down
the
road,
we
can
see
uniform
hundreds
of
numbers
uniformly
low
homicide
numbers
in
all
neighborhoods
of
the
city
of
pittsburgh.
So
that's
where
we
are
right
now
and
I'll.
D
Let
devon
speak
a
little
bit
now
that
valerie
speak
because
of
valerie's
one
of
ours.
This
is,
as
you
heard,
one
of
our
team
members,
and
she
also
has
a
lot
of
other
spectacular
work,
especially
on
the
cultural
side,
trying
to
show
what
community
members
need
to
know
how
they
can
react
and
how
they
can
respond
to
this.
This
health,
public
health
crisis
of
violence
thank.
F
You
jay
for
the
introduction.
I
just
want
to
thank
everybody
for
allowing
me
to
be
a
part
of
this
space
being
part
of
the
table
and
to
discuss
the
various
things
that
we're
doing
over
here
at
shadow
student
athletes.
Student
athletes
just
give
you
a
little
bit
of
background
about
our
organization.
We
was
founded
in
2011
by
myself
and
a
group
of
other
student
athletes
just
trying
to
bridge
the
gap
between
student
athletes
and
academic
support
that
was
happening
at
the
high
school
level.
F
So
we
began
to
build
out
this
process.
There
was
a
bunch
of
students,
athletes
and
regular
students
that
we
found
that
needed
academic
support
character
development,
so
we
created
another
program
called
the
aim
initiative
which
provides
culturally
culturally
relevant
mentors
into
urban
school
spaces,
where
we
do
mediations
interventions,
tons
of
outreach
with
the
students
from
kindergarten
to
12th
grade
and
pittsburgh
public
schools,
and
we
also
have
a
program
called
fun.
F
That's
families
unite
neighborhoods
or
that's
a
six-week
summer
camp
on
the
south
side
of
pittsburgh,
that
has
100
students
and
then
last
year,
due
to
coving,
we
reduced
the
camp
down
to
25
students,
but
that
particular
camp.
We
just
provide
students
with
additional
six
weeks
after
school,
I
mean
after
they
get
out
of
regular
school
for
the
summer
time.
We
do
a
lot
of
academic
enrichment.
We
do
african
drumming
dance.
We
shot
two
short
films
this
summer
and
we
do
a
bunch
of
art
programming
and
then
we
have
our
college
writing.
F
This
program
called
evolve.
Where
we're
traveling
around
the
country
to
different
universities.
We
have
two
kids
to
as
far
as
usc
went
to
ucla
all
the
way
down
to
florida,
all
the
way
up
to
connecticut
schools.
There
we
have
visit
yale
harvard.
So
that's
just
a
little
background
about
what
our
organization
does.
D
Now
and
javon
is
also
part
of
our
gv
outreach
team.
Let
me
just
tell
you
a
little
bit
about
one
success
that
we
just
have
very
recently
now.
Let
him
talk
about
how
he
work,
what
how
all
these
things
tie
together
just
just
yet
last
night,
one
of
the
outreach
workers
on
one
of
our
teams
heard
that
someone
was
upset
and
was
ready
to
shoot.
D
They
were
under.
They
started
to
act
on
that
that
impulse
they
mentioned
to
theirs
team
supervisor,
who
mentioned
it
to
the
gvi
coordinator,
reverend
cornell
jones,
who
mentioned
it
to
the
housing
authority,
police
and
the
pittsburgh
police.
Who
then
prevented
that
person
from
carrying
out
thing
out
on
bad
intention?
They
didn't
arrest
the
person,
but
they
diverted
him
from
doing
that
and
now
right
now,
the
outreach
teams
are
trying
to.
D
D
Outreach
teams
is
having
individuals
like
devon,
who
is
from
a
neighborhood
who
knows
the
people
who
has
a
relationship
who's
and
he's
close
enough
that
he's
able
that
he's
that
they
were
he's
able
to
find
out
if
somebody
is
upset,
if
there
is
a
some
kind
of
a
feud
brewing,
that
may
lead
to
something
more
and
so
that's,
and
so
that
a
lot
of
people
in
the
community
can
be
involved.
D
But
they
don't
have
to
just.
Let
us
know
things,
but
if
not
not
everybody's
got
the
skills
to
do
the
the
mediation
part
of
that
to
actually
do
the
the
the
interruption
parts.
So
there's
a
role
for
every
community
member
that
that
has
a
relationship
to
let
us
know,
and
then
we
can
take
that
the
next
step.
So
why
don't
you
speak
about
how
these
out,
how
the
outreach
teams
actually
work
that
together
and
how
you
work
with
this
strategy?.
F
So
one
of
the
what
we
have
done
recently
here
on
the
south
side,
we
have
just
created
social
spaces
where
young
men
and
young
adults
can
come
to
a
space
just
this
blow-off
name.
So
we
had
created
the
weight
room
over
here.
On
the
south
side,
we
had
a
particular
incident
with
a
young
man
got
into
a
fight
with
his
uncle
lost.
His
short,
the
young
man,
had
a
friend
of
his
bring
a
gun
to
the
house.
Trying
to
you
know,
harm
his
uncle.
F
You
know
the
family
called
me
and
just
with
my
background
me
being
a
mediation,
specialist
and
sort
of
found
out
work,
I
was
able
to
intervene.
Get
the
boy
out
of
the
house.
Talk
to
the
friends
and
family
mediate
the
the
thing
on
the
spot
and
then
had
a
follow-up
intervention
plan
in
place
where
we
have
given
resources
and
outlets
to
that
whole
household.
F
Where
I
go
there
every
other
week
and
just
continue
just
to
work
through
some
of
the
problems
and
frustrations
that
these
the
young
man
has
his
family,
we
was
able
to
come
to
a
resolution
with
you
know
the
friends
and
family
in
that
situation,
to
put
it
out
that
didn't
even
escalate,
but
it
was
at
the
point
where
it
was
going
to
escalate,
and
then
we
just
was
able
to
do
that.
Small
intervention
also
provide
continued
follow-up.
D
So
that's
the
hence
the
need
to
increase
the
number
of
outreach
workers
in
different
neighborhoods
on
deaf
people
connect
a
lot
to
these
sports
teams
after
school
programs,
church
youth
groups
and
other
community
groups
where
the
where
the
higher
risk
individuals
are
going
to
be
found.
Reverend
you
had
a
question.
B
So
valerie
you
and
I
we've
go
back
a
long
way.
We've
both
been
doing
this
work
for
a
long
long.
I
was
thinking
about
that
a
long
time
and
so
sort
of
give
me
your
impression
about
how
the
work
is
going
and
sort
of
your
expertise
and
your
input.
Your
your
insight,
please.
C
Yeah
thanks
a
lot
burgess
and
definitely
you
know-
we've
been
out
here
you
longer
than
I
or
maybe
even
the
same
amount
of
time.
I
don't
know,
but
this
issue
is
just
you
know
close
to
us
as
individuals
that
lost
a
loved
one
to
violence
out
here
you
know-
and
I
you
know
my
segue
into.
Of
course
the
work
was,
you
know,
losing
my
son
rob
dixon
and
june
25th
2001.
C
He
was
murdered
in
the
lincoln
avenue
area
pittsburgh
and
one
of
the
things
that
ignited
a
lot
of
my
concept
of
the
work.
When
someone
would
ask
where
did
he
get
killed
that,
and
I
would
tell
somebody
where
it
was
almost
like?
Oh
yeah,
that
happens
out
there,
like
you
know
that
was
okay
yeah
that
usually
happens
out
there,
and
that
was
that
was
just
as
painful
to
me
as
my
own
son's
death
to
say:
that's
how
they
really
feel
about
it.
So
what
can
we
do
like?
What
can
I
do?
As
a
mother?
C
The
first
at
the
beginning
was
like
trying
to
find
out
who
killed
my
son,
which
we
were
pretty
lucky.
We
had
people
come
forward
and
always
say
it
was
test.
It
was
tech
book
perfect
how
if
there
could
be
a
perfect
way
of
how
someone
is
held
accountable
for
the
harm
that
they've
caused
my
son's
death.
You
know
the
community
came
forward.
They
gave
the
police
officers
the
information
they
came
to
the
crime
scene.
You
know,
sealed
everything
up
gave
that
information
to
the
detectives
they
did.
C
You
know-
and
you
know
it
happened
so
quickly
for
me,
but
I
was
already
invested
in
trying
to
find
stuffs
are
happening
and
there's
no
resolve
or
you
know,
families
didn't
understand
the
where
the
guns
come
from
all
those
different
things
like
that
was
just
so
much
out
there
that
I
wasn't
aware
of
because
it
didn't
smack
me
in
the
face
ever
in
my
life
before
and
so
on,
that
journey
it
was
like
how
do
we
integrate
with
the
process?
That
is
just
not
individual
processor?
C
I
went
to
a
lot
of
meetings
and
you
know
was
on
a
lot
of
committees
and
I
said
you
know
who's
doing
something
like
unilaterally
throughout
the
city.
You
know
we
had
a
great
program
project
over
there
and
a
good
one
over
there,
but
how
are
we
combining
the
work
together
so
unilaterally?
It's
just
like
you
know
I
mentioned
earlier
in
a
conversation
with
jay.
You
know
you
have
to
address
this
issue.
C
C
So
when
this
initial
program
tvi,
has
now
group
balance,
intervention
was
almost
kind
of
emulated
from
a
previous
program,
the
city
of
pittsburgh.
Had
I
thought
it
was
a
no-brainer.
C
You
know
all
three
tiers
if
they're
working
together,
we
can
impact
the
the
issue
of
homicide,
because
one
of
the
things
about
gvi
is
address
the
homicide
rate,
specifically
those
that
are
prone
to
kill
or
prone
to
be
killed.
You
know
how
do
we
reach
them
and
then
how
do
we
do
that
by
building
relationships
with
the
communities
that
we're
in
and
those
individuals
with
organizations
like
vaughn
and
organizations
like
a
lot
of
our
collaborative
partners?
C
These
are
young
people
that
are
not
young
people
all
of
us,
but
we
have
a
relationship
within
our
community,
so
we
already
almost
have
a
door
open
for
that
conversation
that
dialogue
to
happen.
That
was
a
plus
to
me
like.
If
somebody
is
open
to
hear
at
least
what
I
have
to
say,
that's
the
beginning
of
saving
a
life,
and
so
how
do
we
build
on
that?
Okay,
where's,
the
provider
services
that
they
need?
They
say?
Oh,
I
need
a
job.
I
need
a
driver's
license.
Oh,
I
can't
get
this.
I
need
that.
C
That's
why
I'm
out
there
in
the
street?
Okay,
we
got
this
organization
can
help
you
with
that.
Has
that
been
the
problem,
anything
else
we
can
help
you
with,
and
then
somebody
can
almost
slightly
case
manage
it,
but
the
family
is
in
support
of
it
too.
So
you
engage
your
family
as
well
too,
because
a
lot
of
those
issues,
some
of
them
do
stem
from
the
family.
C
You
know
it
could
be
in
a
generation
different
things
like
that,
but
the
part
that
I
brought
that
I
felt
that
myself
was
invited
in
on
was
the
connection
that
I
had
with
other
mothers
that
had
a
loss
within
the
community
wanted
to
do
something
and
utilize
their
voice
to
try
to
have
a
young
person
change
their
mind,
and
so
how
do
we
pull
these
moms
together
to
have
an
impact
in
some
of
these
conversations?
C
Some
of
these
dialogues,
some
of
these
mediations
and
a
lot
of
times
young
people,
will
listen
to
mom
that
lost
the
love
on
the
violence.
You
know
that
kind
of
opens
the
door
and
gets
with
them
like
to
say
you
know
I
want
my
mother
to
end
up
where
you
are,
or
you
know
or
my
grandmother,
to
feel
this
way
or
my
guardian.
Whoever
that
person
is
that
love
you.
You
know
we
we
share
that
message
of
love.
You
know
we
love
you
and
we
want
you
to
live.
C
You
know
to
me
it's
so
important
on
my
side
of
things.
When
I
share
about
my
son's
story
when
they
killed
him,
they
killed
our
last
name,
like
you
know,
there's
no
lineage
after
my
son's
death
and
he
didn't
have
a
chance
to
make
kids,
they
have
children,
and
so
it's
like
our
lineage
is
extinct
like
think
of
a
dinosaur
they're
no
longer
here
anymore.
You
know,
that's
like
the
dixons
when
they
kill
my
son.
That
was
it.
Can
you
imagine
no
more
lineage
after
you're
here,
you
know
and
what
that
would.
C
The
impact
of
that
would
be
to
your
family
to
a
culture.
So
we
get
like
real,
deep
and
heavy
with
our
peace,
the
mothers
that
we
bring
in
what
we
want
to
go
to
outreach
to
a
family.
You
know
that
really
feel
that
their
child
is
in
trouble
and
want
us
to
help
and
the
partnership
and
the
resources
that
we
collab
that
collaboratively
have
surrounding
us
with
all
of
the
guys
and
gals
that
are
involved
in
gdi.
It
makes
it
a
stronger
enforcement
of
of
our
message
of
the
messages
as
a
whole.
C
We
want
you
to
live,
we
love
you
and
we're
sorry.
We
dropped
the
ball
on
you.
Whatever
might
have
been
growing
up
to
make,
you
feel
like
killing
somebody
else
or
validate
your
life,
but
there's
other
ways
we,
you
can
validate
your
life,
you
know-
and
so
you
know
it's
a
different
messaging
that
we
all
have,
but
we
bring.
Everybody
brings
something
special
to
the
table,
but
we
all
work
together
collectively
to
make
it
happen.
C
So
I'm
excited
about
the
work
and
it's
very
it's
very
intense
and
daunting,
and
I
connected
with
the
center
for
victims.
You
know
I'm
being
the
director
of
family
and
community
support,
which
is
an
ad
hoc
unit
that
they
just
developed
in
the
last
few
years,
because
they
you
know
because
they
are
funded
by
a
certain
funding
stream
that
limits
certain
abilities
for
us
to
reach
out
the
kids.
On
the
other
end.
You
know
it's
like
victim
vic,
the
victim,
but
we
know
it's
full
circle.
C
If
you
don't
help
the
victim
and
the
offender
in
the
community,
then
you're
just
going
to
keep
having
a
circle.
So
how
do
we
tap
into
each
one
of
them
without
violating
staying
in
compliance,
and
so
the
partnerships
with
dvi
and
the
pact
initiative?
My
unsolved
thomas
had
billboard
campaign,
and
you
know
vaughn's
program
and
a
lot
of
our
collaborative
partners
program
that
allows
us
to
extend
our
branches
a
little
further
to
be
able
to
help
provide
services
to
these
young
people.
C
B
I
want
to
I
wanted
to
go
to
lore
in
terms
of
she
is
now
the
you
know,
the
new
head
of
the
the
the
office
of
community
health
and
safety,
which
I
think
helps
to
bring
overall
resources
in
a
sort
of
structural
way
to
not
just
this
program
but
to
multiple
programs,
homelessness,
programs,
other
programs
and
so
laura.
B
I,
I
guess
I'd
like
to
kind
of
talk
a
little
bit
about
the
vision
you
are
tasked
with
being
started,
it's
first
hand
and
and
getting
it
up
and
running,
and
it's
doing
programming
now,
but
give
us
a
sense
of
what
it
is,
what
you
hope
to
do,
and
some
of
the
things
you're
doing
right
now.
E
Thank
you,
reverend
burgess
and
thank
you
councilmember
lavell,
and
to
jay
and
the
and
ms
dixon,
mr
madden,
I'm.
E
I
think
we're
learning
a
lot
from
the
gvi
work
every
day
and
that's
because
what
you
are
have
spoken
about-
and
I
know
reverend
burgess
and
councilman
lavelle
you've
talked
about
this
with
you
know
the
dr
gloucester
and
dr
larkins
pettigrew
is
something
about
trust
and
relationships
where
we
sit
now,
there
are
a
lot
of
people
in
the
community
who
lack
trust
or
relationships
of
systems
and
services
that
we
we
say
are
going
to
help
them.
We
say
are
going
to
be
essential
and
we
don't
just
get
to
show
up
and
say.
E
Well
now
you
have
to
trust
us
right.
People
trust
is
earned,
trust
is
built,
trust
doesn't
come
because
you
say
it
should
so.
The
the
new
office
community,
health
and
safety
was
born
out
of
this
idea
that
the
community
members
that
people
who
have
experiences
that
people
with
who
work
with
community
members,
they
know
best.
It's
not
a
person
sitting
at
a
desk.
E
It's
not
a
person
who
read
a
really
excellent
book,
although
they
might
have
read
a
really
excellent
book,
but
the
idea
is
that
the
lived
experience
of
the
direct
service
and
the
individuals
in
our
communities
is
is
what's
needs
to
be
elevated
and
and
that
extends
to
public
safety.
Public
safety.
Our
professionals
in
public
safety
see
a
lot
and
we
need
to
listen
to
them
and
we
need
to
understand
how
we
take
it
from
what
they've
seen
and
what
they've
experienced
to
systems
change.
E
So
the
office
of
community
health
and
safety
is
focused,
as
you
said,
reverend
burgess,
just
on
that
on
health
and
safety,
with
particular
focus
on
community
members
who
have
been
harmed.
You
know
who
have
been
in
the
cultural
systems
who
have
been
failed
by
educational
or
health
systems.
We
want
to
prioritize
those
individuals
first,
because,
frankly,
that's
what
equity
is
right.
That's
where
we
failed
to
meet
those
needs,
and
so
the
office
community,
health
and
safety
first
focuses
on
what
we
call
building
a
continuum
of
support.
So
there
are
some
good
services.
E
E
It's
very
likely
that
they're
going
to
see
police,
but
if
we
had
set
that
individual
up
with
the
supports
before
they
left
that
institution
to
the
degree
that
gbi
does
this
right,
we
don't
want
you
to
ever
even
know
something
bad
could
happen.
There
are
a
lot
of
people
doing
the
work
getting
in
there
working
with
the
individual
to
say
we're
not
even
going
to
let
that
happen
so
building
this
continuum
of
support
that
says,
what's
early
intervention,
what
is
the
way
that
that
we
get
to
something
before
it's
a
crisis?
E
What
is
that
very
pre-crisis
space?
What
is
in
the
moment?
So
you
know,
I
know
one
of
the
officers
said
to
me:
they've
been
called
for
cases
like
a
kid,
isn't
eating
their
broccoli.
We
don't
need
officers
there,
that's
not
for
officers.
So
what
do
we?
What
other
partners
can
be
on
scene
who
are
trusted?
E
Who
the
community
is
asking
us
to
come
and
then
what's
the
stabilization
look
like
so
after
a
situation
has
occurred,
and
I
know
mr
dixon
said
she
works
for
center
for
victims
who
do
a
lot
of
those
services
post
post,
traumatic
event?
How
do
we
stabilize
people?
So
it
doesn't
happen
again
and
again,
so
we
want
to
build
that
up
and
some
of
the
programs
we've
already
started
to
work
with
foundation
of
hope.
We're
looking
at
diversion
programs-
and
I
know
jay-
is
very
familiar
with
those
as
well.
E
E
We
don't
put
them
in
jail
and
hope
that
they're
going
to
get
help
in
jail,
we're
working
with
allegheny
health
network
and
what
we're
trying
to
do
and
that
that
was
largely
borne
out
of
an
effort
to
understand
what
homelessness
looked
like
in
homewood,
because
we
knew
that
there
was
homelessness
and
homewood.
But
for
whatever
reason
there
wasn't
data
and
we
needed
to
say:
okay.
If
data
was
going
to
take,
people
are
going
to
find
that
out.
E
So
the
allegheny
health
network
team
was
developed
not
to
not
to
replicate
the
services
that
are
there
but
to
say
hey.
You
know,
ms
dixon
has
a
relationship
with
someone.
Miss
dixon
can
call
the
allegheny
health
network
team
and
say
this
guy
needs
housing
and
they
can
help
to
do
that.
Legwork
and
that
back
work
and
get
that
served
right
up
or
if
that
person
wants
to
talk
and
work
with
them,
they
can
work
with
them.
E
But
it's
it's
not
it's
about
the
trust
in
the
relationship,
so
there's
no
desire
to
go
in
and
take
people
out
of
a
relationship
or
what
feels
safe
to
them,
but
rather
to
say,
gvi,
you're
doing
excellent
work.
What
do
you
need?
How
do
we
continue
to
support
the
excellent
work
you
do
or
center
for
victims
you're
doing
excellent
work?
How
do
we
continue
to
support
it?
So
we're
not
looking
at
recapitulating
what
exists
we're
saying?
How
do
we
shore
it
up?
E
So
you
know
those
are
our
two
kind
of
early
early
initiatives
we're
also
looking
at
training
public
safety.
We
need
them
to
understand
the
impact
of
their
experiences
with
the
community.
You
know
they
may
think
of
it
as
just
a
charge
that
person
may
lose
their
kids
over
that
charge
and
it
is
it
isn't
it's
nothing
they're
not
going
to
get
help
for
it,
they're
not
going
to
get
services
they're
not
going
to
get
support
and
they're
going
to
have
their
their
family
destroyed.
E
So
what
does
it
look
like
to
change
the
paradigm
and
say:
how
do
we
support
you?
How
do
we
help
you?
So
you
know
that
we're
the
most
important
part
of
all
of
this
is
that
the
community
knows
what
they
need.
They
will
tell
us
what
safety
looks
like.
They
will
tell
us
what
trusts
look
like.
We
do
not
need
to
tell
them.
Oh,
instead
of
sending
an
officer
we're
going
to
send
an
officer
and
a
social
worker.
E
Well,
is
that
what
you
want
is
that
is
that
what
people
want?
Maybe
somebody
does.
Maybe
some
people
do,
and
maybe
some
people
don't
and
we
don't
want
to
just
take
a
poll
say
we
got
it
and
and
and
do
it
we
want
to
have
it
be
kind
of
iterative.
We
try
something
people
say
it's
not
working,
stop
it.
This
isn't
right.
Thank
you.
That's
the
best
information
we
could
get
we're
not
going
to
throw
good
effort
after
bad
we're
going
to
try
something
different
and
we're
going
to
adapt.
E
So
it's
you
know
it's
building
that
continuum
of
support.
It's
intervening
as
early
as
possible,
so
that
we
do
the
least
harm
to
people.
We
want
people
to
thrive,
we
don't
want
them
to
just
have
you
know
a
unit
and
a
a
basic
subsidy
so
that
they
can
get
groceries
like
people.
We
want
people
to
thrive
and
that's,
of
course,
a
lot
of
the
work
that
everyone's
doing
too
around
these
real
upstream
investments
in
the
community.
So
you
know
we're
right
now
in
the
process
of
getting
jobs
up.
A
Thank
you
very
much
if
you
could
also
just
take
a
brief
moment
and
tell
us
how
the
two
offices
work
together
and
how
they
complement
one
another,
meaning
the
offices
of
community
health
and
safety
and
community
services,
violence
prevention,
how
do
how
do
they
actually
work
together
and
complement
one
another?
It's.
E
A
really
good
question-
and
you
know
I
want
to
complement
assistant
director
straterra
murphy,
who
is-
is
so
excellent
in
public
safety
and
and
works
very
closely
with
the
group
violence,
intervention
teams
with
jay
and
reverend
jones,
so
director,
murph
assistant,
director
murphy,
will
oversee
the
office
of
community
services
and
violence
prevention
in
an
in
addition
to
the
violence
prevention,
work,
which
is
already
ongoing
and
continues
to
be
strengthened.
E
Work
around
nighttime
economy
work
around
stop
the
violence
with
jay
work
around
with
the
community
engagement
piece
that
jay
and
john
work
on
and
jay
I'll,
probably
kick
over
to
you
because
I'm
going
to
park
rangers,
I
mean
that
that
office
has
so
much
in
terms
of
how
we
serve
the
community.
How
we
build
the
relationships
and
of
course
you
know,
director,
murphy's
leadership
is
excellent
there,
but
on
the
community,
health
and
safety
point
part
we're
trying
to
look
at
what
are
the
services
and
supports
that
go
beyond
the
violence
prevention
piece.
E
Not
only
do
we
want
to
be
able
to
make
those
services
available
to
people
with
experts
right
with
the
experts
who
navigate
those
systems,
because
those
are
experts
who
the
people
who
do
housing
case
management.
That
is
an
expertise
and
we
want
to
go
to
the
expert
and
so
we're
not
going
to
try
to
make
a
violence
prevention,
intervention,
staff,
member
into
a
case
manager
into
a
housing
case
manager
into
a
pierce
recovery
specialist
into
into
because
that's
where
we
are
with
police.
E
We've
asked
police
to
do
a
lot
of
stuff
that
they
are
not
expert
in
and
instead
we
need
to
go
to
the
experts.
So
we
want
to
be
able
to
find
what
are
the
resources
and
supports
that
our
community
members
need?
How
do
we
complement
the
excellent
work
of
gvi
of
stop
the
violence
of
all
of
these
initiatives
and
then
to
another
degree,
when
those
services
aren't
responsive
when
they're
not
showing
up.
There's
a
there's,
an
advocate
in
philadelphia,
and
he
said
this
and
I've
always
appreciated
it.
E
He
said
people
aren't
service
resistant
services
are
people
resistant.
So
when
us
we
find
that
a
service
is
not
meeting
the
needs
of
our
community
members,
then
we
as
a
city
we
as
a
city
government,
is
3600
people
strong
and
unified,
go
back
and
say
we
need
better.
Our
community
needs
better.
People
can't
wait
on
a
waiting
list
for
this
that
or
the
other
thing
for
eight
months,
because
all
those
eight
months
they're
sitting
outside
they're,
sick
they're
dying,
we
can't
wait.
E
So
what
this
office
is
really
intended
to
do
is
focus
on
some
of
this
first
responder
implemented
public
health
type
interventions.
How
do
we
prevent
harm
to
support
outreach
staff
who
are
doing
homeless
outreach
who
are
gbi?
We
have
you
know,
substance
use
related
supports.
How
do
we
support
them
to
make
sure
that
they're
getting
services
to
the
people
that
they
work
with?
How
are
we
also
making
sure
to
fortify
and
sustain
community
members
who
maybe
haven't
been
in
long-term
crisis
and
need
more
meaningful
placements
with
services?
E
But
it's
you
know
the
this
is
there's
a
a
relationship
piece
to
both,
and
so
that's
the
key
element
and
that
we
will
rely
on
the
trusted
relationships
that
each
have
and
complement
one
one
another
in
the
services
that
are
provided.
B
Okay,
we
are
you-
and
I
have
been
doing
this
long
enough-
to
see
the
evolution
of
our
work
when
we
first
started
the
work.
The
police
budget
has
always
hovered
somewhere
around
100
million
dollars
and
we
had
to
argue
in
order
to
get
350
000
to
start
doing
this
work.
B
Where
the
you
know,
the
police
could
get
520
million
dollars
without
even
a
conversation
and
since
all
of
the
protests
that
have
happened
over
the
summer
for
the
first
time
now,
there's
really
a
real
conversation
about
what
reimagining
the
police
looks
like
and
putting
money
into
prevention
services
which
wasn't
there
before.
I
guess.
B
My
question,
though,
is:
do
you
still
hear
that
right,
a
friend
of
ours,
aaron,
dalton,
congratulations,
erin
is
now
the
new
director
of
of
the
county's
health
and
human
services
and
our
friend
and
I'm
I'm
I'm
very
proud
of
her
and
and
she's
one,
of
course,
who
is
a
great
friend
of
gbi.
But
my
my
question
to
you
really
is:
what
do
you
say
to
those
people
who
say?
Well:
that's
not
the
job
of
the
city,
the
job
of
the
city,
that's
the
county's
job.
B
D
Well,
my
answer
to
that
is
that
it's
all
of
our
job.
Everyone
has
a
responsibility
in
this
space.
There
is
more
than
enough
work
for
everyone
to
do
I
mean
we
don't
need
to
do
education,
but
there's
a
role
for
the
schools
to
play
in
this
role.
We
don't
need
to
do
the
county
does,
but
there's
a
role
for
the
county
in
this
work.
There's
there's
a
role
for
the
police.
We
need
police
too.
We
don't
want
to
not
have
police.
D
We
want
to
have
the
police
they've
got
a
role
to
play,
but
they
don't
want
to
go
to
someone's
house
because
their
kid
didn't
want
to
go
to
school
or
because
they
didn't
eat
broccoli
or
they
didn't
want
to
go
to
bed
at
night
or
then
they
don't
they
don't
have.
Are
not
all
that
excited
about
just
rousing
around
homeless
people
because
they
just
have
no
place
to
go.
D
I
think
what,
if
it's,
not
the
police
have
no
tools
for
that,
we're
putting
them
in
a
bad
position
and
that's
what
we
should
not
be
doing
so
right
now
we
do
have
the
opportunity
to
do.
I
think
far
more
than
we
ever
have
before,
and
I
think
that,
though
the
reason
we've
seen
some
success
is
because
we
have
been
consistent
with
a
strategy
for
the
sets
for
for
12
years.
We
have
not
started
and
stopped.
D
We
will
work
with
the
schools
and
we're
gonna
add
on
more
things
that
we
can
do
to
bring
our
own
people
together
to
create
a
greater
sense
of
community,
which
is
why
we
have
many
many
ways
for
community
members
to
engage
with
this
work
right
now,
including
our
stop
the
violence
newsletter
which
can
be
signed
up
for
by
anybody.
Anybody
anywhere.
We
have
our
new
volunteer
prayer
team
because
we
need
to
be
engaged
churches.
We
have
volunteer
faith
councils
coming,
and
some
of
this
is
also
one
partnership
with
the
public
police.
D
We
have
mad
dads
who's
interested.
In
being
a
part,
we've
got
our
public
safety
councils
in
every
single
police
zone.
In
the
city
we
have
a
trauma
response
team
that
the
neighborhood
resilience
project
runs
and
all
these
things
we've
got
some
great
training
videos.
We
love
more
community
members
to
watch,
they
can
really
see
and
get.
It
can
really
feel
how
important
this
this
the
our
strategy
is.
D
Our
approach
is
your
mindset,
is
you
know
everything,
there's
a
role
for
every
individual
in
this
space,
if
you're
a
mom,
if
you
have
a
child,
if
you
know
a
child,
if
you're
their
neighbors
to
a
child,
if
you
are
or
know
someone
who's
troubled
in
any
way,
there's
a
role
for
you
to
play
now
our
job
is
to
make
it
easier
for
you
to
find
the
help
that
you
know
someone
needs.
So
it's
not
so
difficult.
E
E
I
agree
with
jay,
though,
that
it's
everybody's
responsibility,
particularly
to
in
the
city
that
we
need
to
care
for
our
residents
and
when
we
see
some
you
know
when
you
see
something
say
something
when
we
see
that
there
are
gaps
and
not
just
I
mean
you
know
the
thing
that
I
keep
reminding
myself.
Is
we
talk
in
these
terms?
If
there's
a
gap
or
there's
an
issue-
and
you
know
maybe
maybe
valerie
can
speak
to
this
greater
than
I
a
gap
means
someone
might
die.
E
You
know
a
gap
means
someone
is
sleeping
outside
and
might
be
assaulted,
and
I
think
it's
very
easy
to
deal
in
terms
of
metrics
data
metrics.
But
when
you
do
the
direct
service
and
you
work
with
an
individual
who
is
suffering
struggling,
that
gap
is
not
something
that
can
be
talked
about
in
the
you
know,
air
quote
gap
that
is
someone's
life,
and
so
I
think
you
know
what
we
need
is
to
be
able
to
demand
a
high
level
of
accountability,
whether
it
is
us
providing
it.
E
We
will
not
sit
back
and
watch
people
live
in.
You
know
abandoned
buildings
where
they're
subject
to
extreme
potential
harm
and
not
point
to
it
and
say
this
is
happening.
This
isn't
this
isn't
just
and
it's
not
acceptable,
we're
not
gonna.
You
know
we're
not
gonna
tolerate
this
anymore,
so
you
know
I.
E
I
would
defer
to
valerie
to
say
who
what
the
impact
is,
but
I
don't
think
that
the
city
cannot
do
it
because
either
we
either,
we
don't
hire
these
individuals
and
we
don't
contract
these
programs
to
do
this
work
or
we
keep
hiring
officers
and,
as
jay
said,
officers
are
not
appropriate
for
these
situations.
They
know
it.
They
tell
us
all
the
time
so
anyways
I
I
do
think
that
I
guess
very
impassioned.
Yes,
I
think
we
do
need
to
provide
these
services.
C
Yeah,
I
definitely
agree
with
you
on
that
and
when
we,
when
I
always
hear
you
know
the
gap
or
you
know,
somebody
dropped
the
ball
or
something
like
that.
I
know
living
in
a
city
of
bridges.
You
know.
Basically
all
it
is
is
like
we
have
to
make
the
connections
with
the
bridge.
You
know
we
have.
We
have
to
be
the
bridge
builders
all
of
us,
and
so
how
do
we
have
like?
If
we're
engaging
with
someone?
C
You
know
we
don't
immediately,
have
all
that
information
in
front
of
us
of
what
they
actually
need,
or
is
it
a
way
to
create
a
database?
For
that
and
say,
hey
group,
violent
intervention
has
this
database,
for
you
know
you
have
the
different
topics
or
sections.
You
know
this
person
needs
the
driver's
license.
This
person
needs
a
place
to
live
this
person,
you
know
it's
homeless
or
whatever
it
is,
and
you
could
just
click
on
that
and
like
boom.
C
B
C
Stuff
is
a
dollar
a
day,
late
and
a
dollar
short.
You
know
what
I
mean,
and
so
you
know
we
know
that
these
services
are
out
here
it's
about
building
that
bridge
and
make
it
a
way
that
we
can
expedite
this
information
to
people
so
that
it's
not
these
gaps
and
people
don't
drop
the
ball,
because
just
like
police
officers,
you
know
they
go
to
one
shooting
and
they
try
to
gather
information.
For
that
shooting
and
there's
another
one,
two
hours
later,
that
they
gotta
refocus
on
it.
A
So
after
we
made
the
announcement
about
funding
these
initiatives,
I
had
a
gentleman
come
up
to
me
in
the
hill
who
said:
hey.
Look
I
heard
about
what
you
all
were
doing.
I
had
some
rough
patches
in
my
past,
but
I'll
turn
my
life
around
I
would
like
to
get
involved,
can
either
of
you
and
we
can
start
with
you.
Miss
dickson.
If
you
would
like
to
jay
or
vaughn
can
also
chime
in.
D
Let
me
let
me
start
with
start
on
to
answer
that
question
number
one.
There
is
role,
there's
a
role
for
anyone.
I
mean
it's
there's
lots.
Most
roles
are
not
going
to
be
paid
roles,
but
there's
rules
for
every
every
citizen,
who's
doing
anything.
So
if
you've
got,
if
you
have
a
story
to
tell,
we
want
to
help
tell
that
story
ourselves.
We
don't
our
platform
is
still
being
created,
but
we,
one
of
the
things
we
are
working
on
is
how
to
get
people
like
that
to
tell
their
story.
D
D
The
paid
opportunities
are
going
to
be
through
our
gvr
outreach,
contracting
organization
organizations,
and
so
the
best
way
to
get
started
with
beforehand
is
to
reach
out
probably
to
me,
and
we
can
try
to
start
connecting
I'm
starting
to
get
him
more
knowledge
about
where
we
are,
what
we're
doing
and
how
he
might
get
himself
involved,
because
there's
definitely
a
role
even
as
even
a
small
connection
with
the
group.
Even
a
volunteer
connection
with
the
outreach
teams
can
be
helpful
because
you
could
again
it's
about
building
the
relationships.
D
One
of
the
tools
that
we're
working
on
is
what
I'll
call
the
squash
the
beef
hotline
or
dispute,
or
so,
if
you
hear
about
some
committee
members
that
have
a
feud
with
each
other
call
it
in,
let
somebody
know
that,
so
we
can
let
the
right
find
the
right
interrupter
in
enough
time
that
we
can
deal
with
it.
We
also
have
there's
a
training
video
on
the
pittsburgh
black.
The
black
pittsburgh
matters,
a
facebook
page
right
now
right
next
to
the
the
video
from
this
of
this
broadcast.
D
That
has
a
business,
it's
the
beginning
of
a
training,
video
that
we
had
and
we
have
a
longer
version
of
it
that
we
want.
We
want
potential
outreach
assistance,
people
to
help
with
to
want
to
watch.
We
want
them
to
have
watch
this
video
because
it
doesn't
get
you
just
talk
about
the
strategy
and
and
how
simple
some
of
this
really
is.
If
you're
focused
and
you
have
the
resources
you
and
you
know
where
to
look.
So
what
that's?
D
F
F
When
we
heard
of
the
violence
that
was
per
take
taking
place
this
summer,
we
was
able
to
make
a
direct
connection
with
family
members,
one
of
the
young
men's
father
and
able
to
get
a
hold
of
individuals
before
things
went
to
the
next
level
and
was
able
to
once
again
put
in
some
small
strategies
in
place,
two
of
the
young
men
that
we
was
able
to
find
job
placement
and
once
they
got
you
know,
employed
you
know
working.
F
You
know,
19,
18
years
old,
you
work
in
a
full
work
day.
They
have
not,
you
know,
been
to
no
more
violence,
names
kind
of
been.
You
know,
faded
away
from.
You
know
some
of
the
community
negativities
that
they
were
getting
involved
in
and
now
that
they
have
gainful
employment
and
programming
opportunities.
F
They've
been
able
to
you
know
just
continue
life,
not
as
normal,
of
course,
because
there's
still,
you
know
conversations
and
things
in
that
nature,
but
haven't
been,
you
know,
engaged
in
any
violent
activity
since
they
was.
You
know,
gainfully
employed
for
the
last.
It's
been
about
seven
months
now
that
they
was
able
to
maintain
their
job.
That's.
D
That's
what
we're
here
to
do-
and
I
don't
know
I've
mentioned
a
lot
about
young
men,
but
there's
also
young
women
in
this
mix
as
well.
Unfortunately,
several
young
women
have
been
shot
this
year.
We
know
that
the
domestic
violence
is
a
problem
and
some
part
of
it's
related,
but
it's
also
a
culture
that
and
there's
some
cultural
issues
that
we
want
to.
Do
I'm
going
to
ask
valerie
just
a
minute
justice.
D
We
can
worry
about
that,
but
we
know
that
that
the
board
broke
an
armed
guys
are
hanging
around
with
the
with
with
the
girls
and
them
so
that
they
it.
In
fact
they
infect
each
other
with
the
same
conditions
and
if
and
then
girls
don't
want
to
put
up
with
it
and
they
tell
their
guys
to
stop
oftentimes.
The
guys
are
gonna
stop,
because
the
guy
wants
to
get
the
girl
so
there's
a
role
they
can
play
as
well.
D
C
Well,
you
know,
I
know
working
at
the
center
and
doing
a
lot
of
the
curriculum
training
on
trauma
unaddressed
trauma
compound
complex
trauma.
A
lot
of
these
young
ladies
gravitate
to
these
guys
in
the
community
that
show,
I
guess
in
a
sense,
their
strength
and
power,
is
either
the
drug
dealer.
You
know
they
got
all
the
money
or
the
ones
that
most
people
fear
and
things
like
that,
and
you
know,
unfortunately,
because
we
do
have
a
high
rate
in
our
culture
and
our
african-american
families
of
about.
C
C
You
know
the
are
growing
up
as
single-parent
families,
and
so
the
role
model
of
a
father
is
not
really
in
place,
a
lot
you
know,
and
so
what
they
see
on
the
outside
emulates
what
they
feel
you
know
that
makes
you
look
like
or
that
father
figure
of
that
man
in
their
life
it
looked
like
and
so,
depending
on
some
past
history,
that
these
young
ladies
bring
with
them.
You
know
what
I
mean
they
can
be
easily
swayed.
C
Some
of
these
guys,
because
they
are-
I
mean
you
know
they
got
the
street
smarts
and
they
know
how
to
say
it
and
then
they
know
how
to
sway
it,
and
so
you
know
they
can
work
their
way
in
a
lot
of
these,
ladies
own,
the
house,
or
the
apartment
or
the
property
that
they
live
in.
So
a
lot
of
these
guys
don't
have
their
own
homes
and
apartments.
C
You
know,
and
so
you
know
they
wiggle
their
way
into
their
lives
and
once
they're
you
know,
sort
of
in
while
they're
either
these
young
ladies,
have
their
child.
Or
you
know
you
know
it's
a
deep
embedded
relationship
that
they
rely
on.
They
get
caught
up
and
then
they
get
caught
up
in
the
game.
You
know
and
then
the
next
minute
you
know
they're
allowing
them
to
hide
the
drugs,
and
I
had
the
gun
there
and
you
know
they're
lying
for
them
and
different
things
like
that.
C
It's
a
cultural
build-up
that
happens
and
then,
when
something
happens,
when
someone
you
know,
gets
hurt,
shot
or
killed.
You
know,
then
it's
you
know.
Why
did
this
happen?
To
my
daughter,
you
know
she's
a
good
girl
or
you
know
if
she
wasn't
with
him,
or
it
was
her
fault,
because
she
was
dealing
with
that
dude
first
and
now
it's
just
so
that
whole
cultural
piece
that
brings
that
into
some
communities
that
are
deep,
embedded
into
that
activity
as
as
is
spreading
it
out
to
other
areas.
C
Of
course,
you
know
with
centrifugation
and
different
things
like
that,
but
one
of
the
things
that
we're
trying
to
definitely
identify
with
and
unfortunately
cove
has
slowed
down
a
lot
of
us
being
able
to
reach
these
young
people
on
a
face-to-face
one-on-one.
But
it
you
know
the
virtual.
C
The
virtual
technology
is
allowing
us
to
re-engage
with
these
youth
is
trying
to
help
them
identify
their
behaviors.
It's
not
like
you're,
a
bad
person,
you're
a
horrible
person.
That's
that
neither
something
has
happened
to
you
in
your
life.
The
paradigm
has
happened
for
you
to
start
to
make
these
bad
decisions.
You
know
you
need
to
get
back
to
that
pain.
That
you're
covering
up,
however
you're,
covering
it
up
in
a
relationship
by
drugs
or
whatever.
It
is
go
back
and
revisit
that
pain
and
identify.
That's
why
I
started
doing
this.
A
C
I
remember
his
grades
did
start
going
down
at
that
point.
Like
those
little
those
simple
things
that
we
don't
catch
early,
you
know
we
got
to
share
that
language
with
them
now
to
understand
when
somebody
understands
that
there's
not
something,
I'm
not
a
bad
person,
a
bad
kid
because,
like
jay
said
when
you
talk
to
most
of
them,
one-on-one
very
intelligent
young
people,
a
lot
of
them.
C
You
know
what
I
mean
I
mean
from
you,
know:
art
to
you
know
just
the
capability
of
knowledge
that
they
can
absorb
and
very
smart,
but
then,
when
they're
in
out
there
in
the
street,
they
do
get
caught
up
or
they
get
forced
into
something.
Because
crowds
is
you
know
if
you
hey
either
you
with
us
or
you
again,
since
you
guess
this
is
gonna
happen
to
you.
Are
you
with
us?
We
will
protect
you,
you
know,
and
so
you
know
trying
to
break
some
of
those
norms.
C
D
And
that's
why
this
is
also
a
cultural
phenomenon.
We've
got
to
change
the
culture
we
gotta
be
stuff
to
start
promoting
every
achievement,
every
no
matter
how
small,
no
matter
when
it
begins,
so
that
you
know
you
are
valuable.
You've
got
more
to
offer
than
that
you're,
not
just
what
they
what
they
say.
You
are
on
tv
or
in
some
songs
that
you
have
a
value
to
all
of
us,
so
that
so
we
cannot
lose
you.
You
think,
you're
your
goal
in
life
to
live
at
age
25!
That's
not
good
enough
goal!
D
Your
goal
is
to
lift
to
100
years
old
and
when
we
should
be
making
those
plans
to
live
to
100
years
old
as
well,
so
we
do
need
everybody
every
institution
to
help
us
in
some
way.
Just
just
stay
abreast
of
the
fact
just
understand
the
facts
and
just
see
the
the
connectedness
of
these
all
these
systems,
because
they
have
combined
to
cause
us
the
culture
that
is
as
as
as
one
side
is
warped
as
it
seems
to
be
today
and
we're
trying.
We
are
working
against
that.
D
Our
role
is
a
just
a
part
of
that,
but
there's
lots
of
other
roles
to
play
at
every
every
employer
that
everyone
has
got
a
job
to
offer
or
see
in
the
school.
We
want
you
to
call
us,
because
we
want
to
connect
you
with
someone
and
we're
looking
forward
to
expanding
the
things
that
we've
been
able
to
do
so
that
we
can
have
more
more
relationships
with
more
individuals
and
more
places.
D
We
can
find
out
about
more
disputes
and
we
can
stop
them,
so
we
can
so
that
we
can
direct
more
people
to
services.
I
mean
so
the
more
more
people
to
mentor
the
importance
of
a
mentor
is
just
unbelievably
critical,
even
though
they've
been
made
oftentimes,
usually
unpaid,
usually
totally
volunteer.
Sometimes
you
miss
out
miss
it
and
sometimes
boring,
but
any
kind
of
opportunity
to
interact
with
younger
people
and
start
changing
that
culture
to
start
providing
that
incentive
for
someone
to
do
well
to
give
the
the
and
some
of
them
really
know.
D
What's
going
on
someone's
left,
you
can
really
understand.
Don't
assume
that
somebody
knows
knows
how
to
behave
knows
how
to
tie
a
tie
knows
how
to
say
they
say.
Thank
you
knows
how
to
eat
at
a
at
a
a
table
cloth
a
restaurant
with
a
tablecloth
on
it.
Don't
assume
that
don't
assume
that
they
know
how
to
how
to
solve
their
dispute
without
shooting
somebody?
No
don't
assume
that
you
could.
D
You
can
be
the
mentor
that
leads
that
person
to
to
learning
some
of
these
things,
so
don't
be
afraid
to
be
that
mentor,
because
there's
a
role
whether
it's
to
a
church,
whether
it's
through
big
brothers,
whether
it's
through
machi,
where
there's
organizations
all
over
that
could
use
those
volunteers
and
we
want
to
know,
there's
lots
for
everybody
to
do.
A
So
towards
that
end
the
hour
is
upon
us,
but
micah
campbell
smith
has
been
monitoring
questions
that
have
been
coming
in
online.
So
I
want
to
bring
her
on
camera
and
ask
that
she
asked
one
or
two
of
the
sort
of
top
questions
that
have
come
in.
G
Right
so
we
have
a
question
from
phyllis
who
said
I
attended
the
wake
and
funeral
of
a
32
year
old,
who
was
shot
17
times
a
week
ago,
this
past
saturday.
I
am
certain
that
his
family
could
use
some
support.
Three
to
four
weeks
ago,
coming
out
of
a
corner
store
in
middle
hill.
I
came
across
several
liters
of
blood
on
the
sidewalk,
and
I
found
out
two
men
were
shot.
What
is
being
done
to
determine
what
is
going
on
in
the
black
community.
B
Well,
first
of
all,
we
are
praying
for
the
family
of
the
victim.
Every
loss
of
life.
Every
wounded
person
hurts
us
all.
We
are
doing
a
variety
of
things.
This
is
a
part
of
it.
Certainly
this
which
you
see
is
the
balance
reduction
part
we're
also
trying
to
build
more
affordable
housing,
we're
trying
to
get
jobs,
we're
trying
to
really
strengthen
families
in
the
black
community,
rebuild
black
communities,
the
avenue
of
hope,
just
just
a
variety
of
things.
B
But
to
be
honest
with
you,
I
too
heard
I
you
know
I
I
look.
We
were
able
to
build
new
housing
at
homewood
and
I
drive
down.
I
look
at
it.
I've
seen
them
have
birthday
parties
and
the
princess
outfits,
and
I'm
I'm
very
proud
that
would
have
happened.
You
know
just
a
few
years
ago,
but
then
I
can
drive
just
two
or
three
blocks
away
from
the
new
development
and
still
see
areas
of
great
need
and
trouble.
So
we
no
matter
how
hard
we
work
it
did
not
take.
B
D
Let
me
add
on
it:
if
the,
if
there
is,
if
that,
if
that's
this
person
asking
the
question,
does
know
the
fit
of
the
family,
we
do
have
a
trauma
team
that
can
that
can
help
to
remediate
any
traumas
from
neighbors
or
family
members.
Please
reach
out.
We
do
have
outreach
team
members
who
would
have
been
very
happy
to
stop
by
I
mean
we
do
we,
we
definitely
track
we
try
to
respond
to,
but
they
there's
a
lot
of
work
to
be
done
on
the
inner
healing
side
as
well,
and
we
do.
D
The
purpose
of
the
outreach
worker
is
to
gather
the
general
intelligence
about
what's
going
on
in
the
community.
We
can't
know
everything,
but
we
we
can
know
a
lot
and
can
prevent
a
lot.
But
when
things
do
happen,
we
need
someone
like
you
to
reach
out
to
us.
Let
us
know
who's
there.
We
can
get
that
we
can
get
our
trauma
team
there.
D
G
C
I
could
start
off
by
saying
you
definitely
do
have
to
have
a
passion
for
helping
others,
sometimes
the
overwhelming
impact
of
all
these
crime,
all
the
crime
and
violence
that
we
see
we
want
to
get
involved,
and
then
we
do
have
some
people
that
get
involved,
but
they
don't
really
realize
how
heavy
it
is.
So,
if
you're
already
carrying
some
stuff,
you
know
you
might
want
to
work
on
your
own
stuff.
First,
you
know
before
you
dive
in
because
you
could
cause
more
harm
than
not.
C
But
if
you
are
past
that
level,
you
know
you
can
reach
out.
Like
get
jay
said
you
know,
reach
out
to
gvi
and
see
how
you
can
get
involved
reach
out
to.
I
know
I'm
the
vice
chair
of
vpap,
which
we
do
the
coalition
against
violence,
and
we
created
a
document
that
has
833
strategies.
C
They
always
ask
me,
because
I
counted
every
one
of
them,
but
there's
833
strategies
in
that
document
of
anyone
from
a
to
z
that
can
get
involved,
and
you
just
look
in
your
area
of
expertise
or
interest
or
concern,
and
you
can
say
hey.
I
think
I
like
to
work
on
some
of
these.
I
like
to
work
on
this
project
or
this
program,
or
you
know,
bring
this
to
my
job
and
say:
hey:
what
can
we
do
to
reduce
violence
or
intervene
or
you
know
take
it
to
your
church
or
say
you
know?
C
F
Oh
yeah,
I
just
will
piggyback
off
of
what
miss
ditching
said.
She
made
some
very
great
valid
points
and
that's
what
I
would
just
do
is
just
get
in
contact
with
you
know:
local
community
organizations,
and
just
you
know,
talk
to
those
local
leaders,
executive
directors,
grassroots
organizations
and
just
pretty
much
ask
where's
the
need
and
just
add
it,
and
I
think
that's
a
lot
of
times
where
it's.
The
simple
question
is
just
hey:
where
can
I
help
and
this
along
your
expertise?
F
A
We
will
be
more
than
willing
to
add
all
that
information
to
our
public
sites,
so
people
can
access
it
if
you're
trying
to
access
any
of
the
documents,
mistakes
or
anyone
else
mentioned
any
of
those
documents
feel
free
to
reach
out
to
myself,
rev
burgess
and
we'll
make
sure
we
get
that
information
to
you
in
those
documents
to
you
with
that
being
said,
I
do
want
to
thank
everyone
for
being
with
us
this
evening.
A
We
have
come
upon
our
hour
and
our
time
is
up,
and
I
want
to
thank
everyone
for
participating
in
today's
show.
Specifically,
I
want
to
thank
our
guest
jay
gilmer,
of
the
stop
the
violence
coordinator
for
the
pittsburgh
department
of
public
safety,
devon
madden
president
and
ceo
of
shadow
student,
athletic
development
services
and
founder
of
brothers
of
christ
and
a
member
of
the
group.
A
We
are
fighting
every
single
day
to
ensure
our
communities
are
safe
in
order
to
have
significant
investment
in
the
black
community.
It's
imperative
that
we
collectively
work
together
to
ensure
our
communities
are
safe
and
peaceful,
and
by
collectively
working
together
we
will
be
ensuring
that
we'll
be
able
to
rebuild
black
communities
for
pittsburgh
that
are
safe,
prosperous
and
will
do
so
in
conjunction
with
our
partners
and
allies.
B
I
want
to
thank
all
of
you
for
watching
and
participating
in
this
town
hall
meeting.
Remember
you
can
watch
this
show
on
facebook,
the
city's
youtube
channel
or
the
city's
cable
channel.
A
new
meeting
occurs
every
wednesday
by
working
together,
united
purpose.
We
can
transform
our
city
strengthen
it
for
all
of
its
residents.