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Press Conference held Wednesday, November 6, 2019 outline further efforts to assist communities directly impacted by gun violence.
In attendance:
Mayor Jim Kenney
Council President Darrell Clarke (5th District)
Councilmember Curtis Jones, Jr. (4th District)
Councilmember Kenyatta Johnson (2nd District)
Councilmember Jannie Blackwell (3rd District)
Councilmember Maria D. Quiñones Sánchez (7th District)
Brian Abernathy, Managing Director
Vanessa Garrett Harley, Deputy Managing Director for Criminal Justice and Public Safety
A
So
good
morning,
everyone
and
welcome
it's
great
to
have
you
all
with
us.
As
we
talk
about
a
major
investment
in
our
violence
prevention
programming,
I
am
vanessa
garret
harley.
I
serve
as
a
deputy
managing
director
for
criminal
justice
and
public
safety
for
the
city
of
philadelphia.
In
this
position,
I've
seen
our
many
dedicated
teams
respond
to
the
tragedies
we
see
taking
place
on
our
streets.
Young
lives
are
lost
and
completely
robbed
at
their
potential
injured.
Shooting
victims
live
with
trauma,
even
if
they
fully
recover
from
their
injuries.
Others,
sadly,
do
not.
A
We
know
that
even
after
police
investigators
have
left
a
crime
scene,
grief
and
pain
remain
long
afterwards
for
real
and
communities
with
open
wounds
or,
in
some
cases
reopen
wounds
that
need
time
to
heal
the
investments
our
team
will
announce
today
will
help
with
that
healing
and
rebuild
a
sense
of
safety
and
community
that
violence
can
to
easily
rip
away.
These
investments
will
also
help
us
get
to
the
root
cause
of
some
of
these
violent
acts.
A
They
will
help
us
with
an
immediate
trauma-informed
response
that
provides
needed,
support
to
those
impacted
by
the
violence,
cleaning,
a
ceiling
of
the
abandoned
houses
where
bad
actors
might
stash
guns
and
cutting
down
of
overgrown
Lots,
where
suspect,
might
hide,
stolen
property
money
or
even
themselves.
The
Kinney
administration
is
working
with
our
partners
and
community
leaders
on
the
frontlines,
and
today
we
mark
a
next
step.
Now
it's
my
pleasure
to
introduce
our
leader,
who
is
not
waiting
for
his
second
term
to
start
before.
B
Thank
You
Vanessa,
and
thank
you
all
for
being
here
today
as
we
approach
the
start
of
our
second
term
and
prioritize
issues
that
need
further
investment
of
focus.
It
is
clear
that
continuing
to
address
the
issue
of
gun
violence
which
tears
the
fabric
of
our
communities
will
be
our
top
priority.
So
thank
you
to
council
president
Clark
councilmembers
Jones
and
Johnson
councilmember
Blackwell.
B
Sanchez
for
being
here
today,
we
share
city
council
sense
of
urgency
to
curb
the
senseless
gun
violence
that
all
too
often,
particularly
in
recent
weeks,
has
claimed
innocent
children.
We
continue
to
work
towards
implementation
of
the
Philadelphia
roadmap
for
safer
communities.
The
comprehensive
five-year
anti
violence
plan
that
we
unveiled
in
January,
yet,
even
as
we
do
so,
all
of
us
in
city
government,
including
our
colleagues
and
city
council,
recognized
the
need
for
additional
and
immediate
steps
to
address
this
urgent
issue.
B
So
in
a
few
minutes,
you'll
hear
details
from
managing
director
Brian
Abernathy
about
two
initiatives
that
we
are
moving
forward
on
as
quickly
as
possible,
I'm,
confident
that
these
programs
will
benefit
those
residents
most
directly
affected
by
the
scourge
of
gun
violence.
One
is
aimed
at
preventing
crime,
a
strategy
known
as
focused
deterrence
or
group
violence,
intervention
that
has
proven
effective
here
before
and
in
other
cities.
As
you
may
know,
this
isn't
the
first
time
the
city
has
moved
an
initiative
like
this
forward.
Previous
efforts
led
to
mixed
results.
B
Our
administration
is
committed
to
trying
again
because
we
are
convinced
that
can
make
a
difference.
The
second
initiative
is
focused
on
helping
neighborhoods
after
significant
incidents
of
violence
when
gun
fire
breaks
out
when
deaths
occur
and
living
rooms
or
in
porches
and
in
the
street.
Even
those
not
struck
by
bullets
are
affected.
They
need
our
help.
The
city
will
now
deploy
Rapid
Response
Teams.
Will
that
will
lend
immediate
support
to
those
caught,
quite
literally
in
the
crossfire.
B
In
a
moment,
Brian
Abernathy
will
tell
you
more
about
both
group
violence,
intervention
and
rapid
response
to
be
clear.
I
am
NOT
standing
here
today
telling
you
that
these
two
efforts
alone
will
solve
the
issue
of
gun
violence,
but
they
are
part
of
a
larger
plan
to
address
gun
violence
as
a
public
health
issue.
One
of
the
basic
principles
of
the
road
map
for
safer
communities
is
that
there
is
no
single
answer
to
gun
violence,
particularly
in
light
of
the
state's
refusal
to
for
any
meaningful
gun
restrictions.
B
B
We
need
to
address
this
with
a
wide
range
of
initiatives
like
the
successful
community
crisis
intervention
program
which
puts
credible
messengers
overnight
and
on
weekends
in
hot
spots,
to
de-escalate
incidents
before
gunfire
breaks
out,
because
our
children
should
be
able
to
sit
in
their
living
rooms
and
watch
cartoons
without
worrying
about
being
struck
by
bullets
flying
through
their
front
windows.
More
than
anything,
we
need
to
focus
on
violence
as
a
symptom
of
a
larger
crisis
of
pervasive
poverty
in
Philadelphia,
I,
believe
to
my
core
that
reducing
poverty
will
reduce
gun
violence.
B
We've
taken
more
guns
off
the
street
in
the
last
four
years
than
ever
before,
and
those
guys
go
dick
bucks
county
and
out
in
Berks,
County
and
other
places
and
buy
bags
of
guns
without
any
any,
without
any
need
to
prove
who
they
are
to
prove
that
they
don't
have
a
record.
It's
it's
absolutely
horrendous,
what's
happening
in
this
state,
what's
happening
in
surrounding
states
and
it
all
comes
downhill
and
affects
us
here,
and
our
administration
will
dedicate
its
next
four
years
to
doing
all
these
things
and
I
just
want
to
thank
I'm.
B
It's
yesterday
was
a
was
a
long
day
and
we're
here
today
is
start
off
the
second
term,
but
but
I
am
so
frustrated
that
both
the
federal
government
and
the
president
I'd
stayed
huggs.
The
Second
Amendment,
the
state
legislature,
hugs
the
Second
Amendment,
and
we
allow
ak-47s
on
our
streets.
I
mean
it's
just
it's
horrible,
our
police.
Our
citizens
are
at
risk,
our
police
are
at
risk
and
we
need
to
stop
it
and
we
need
to
turn
it
around.
So
Brian
you
up.
C
Good
morning,
I'm
Brian,
Abernathy
Embassy's
managing
director
I
just
want
to
say
the
work
that
Vanessa
and
our
public
safety
team
are
doing,
especially
its
overall
commitment
to
rapid
response
and
healing
is
critical
and
I
appreciate
it
on
her
leadership,
and
that's
exactly
why
we're
here
today
is
to
build
on
top
of
that
work.
First,
we
are
pleased
to
say
that
we're
working
with
the
District
Attorney's,
Office
and
other
partners
to
launch
the
group
violence
intervention
in
Philadelphia
program.
C
This
is
a
crime
reduction
strategy
zeroed
in
on
the
highest
risk,
individuals
and
hot
spots,
including
repeat
offenders
and
drug
dealers,
and
builds
on
the
focused
deterrence
model
that
the
city
employed
a
few
years
ago.
The
strategy
involves
targeted
outreach
to
high
rate
offenders,
offering
incentives
for
compliance
and
swift
consequences
for
criminal
activity.
The
administration
is
committed
to
funding
this
approach
and
plans
to
implement
the
program
this
spring
in
West
Philadelphia.
C
Today,
we're
also
announcing
that
the
administration
has
sent
to
City
Council
request
for
appropriations
for
more
than
five
million
dollars
to
expand
our
efforts
around
violence
prevention
included.
In
that
request,
as
funding
for
group
violence,
intervention
also
was
included,
is
funding
for
the
rapid
response
efforts
that
Mayor
Kenny
touched
on
communities
that
witness
gun
violence
need
immediate
support,
particularly
in
the
wake
of
incidents
where
there
are
multiple
victims
of
a
particularly
tragic
incident,
such
as
the
murder
of
four
residents
in
one
West
Philadelphia
home
last
month,
or
where
the
victims
are
children.
C
The
shootout
on
15th
Street
marked
the
first
mobilisation
of
city
resources
in
this
way
and
we've
continued
to
mobilize
when
tragedy
strikes.
Team
members
include
representatives
of
various
city
agencies
who
provide
immediate
trauma,
support
direction
on
an
obtaining
long
term,
counseling
immediate
structural
and
streetscape
repairs,
long
term
blight
remediation
and
improved
street
lighting
information
on
other
social
services
and
anti-violence
resources.
C
The
legislation
also
asked
City
Council
to
consider
additional
funding
for
two
ongoing
efforts:
the
community
crisis
intervention
program
and
our
grassroots
targeted
community
investment
grants
both
of
these
programs
to
more
support
community-based
efforts
to
provide
all
turn
ative
to
violence
and
allow
us
to
fund
solutions
that
are
located
close
to
the
problems.
We've
requested
an
additional
1.2
million
dollars
for
licenses
and
inspections
for
handling
blight,
specifically
to
increase
the
capacity
of
clean
ins
to
clean
and
seal
abandoned
properties
that
are
too
often
used
to
hide
stolen
goods,
drugs
and
weapons.
C
Finally,
we're
requesting
an
additional
300
thousand
for
the
streets
department
for
additional
neighborhood
lighting
upgrades.
All
of
this
underscores
our
commitment
to
improving
the
quality
of
life
and
safety
for
our
communities.
The
roadmap
to
safer
communities
calls
on
every
city
agency
to
do
its
part
to
promote
safety
and
well-being.
C
These
investments
only
Hance
those
enhance
those
commitments
only
with
long-term
continuous
effort
by
all
of
us
will
we
see
long-term,
sustained
results
and,
as
I
close
I
just
want
to
say
thank
you
in
advance
to
City
Council,
for
its
careful
consideration
and
for
your
ongoing
leadership
and,
most
importantly,
for
your
partnership
in
tackling
all
of
these
issues.
Thank
you.
D
Thank
You
brain
good
morning,
guys
good
morning.
First
of
all,
I
want
to
thank
everybody
for
being
here.
I
wanna,
I
want
to
say,
I
want
to
concur
with
the
mayor
and
his
sentiments
with
respect
to
the
sense
of
urgency
around
this
very,
very
troubling
issue
and
I
want
to
commend
the
mayor,
because
it's
not
lost
upon
me
that
9
o'clock
9:30
the
day
after
the
election.
This
is
the
first
thing,
that's
being
discussed
in
a
public
way.
Mayor
I
want
to
thank
you,
you're,
sending
a
message
for
me.
D
And
I
want
to
thank
the
administration
and
my
colleagues
on
council
about
understanding
their
need
to
expand
the
agenda
as
we
address
violence,
it
can't
just
simply
be
about
law
enforcement.
We
asked
our
police
to
do
a
lot,
but
we
have
to
do
other
things.
Obviously
you
know
we
have
to
talk
about
criminal
justice
reform.
We
have
to
talk
about
expanding
educational
and
real
opportunities
for
individuals
who
find
themselves
going
down
that
path.
D
I'm
glad
that
we're
talking
about
taking
guns
off
the
street
I
want
to
thank
our
law
department
and
the
DEA
and
the
mayor's
for
moving
on
lost
and
stolen
guns.
We
think
that's
a
key
key
component
in
terms
of
stopping
straw
purchases,
safe
havens,
bill
dealing
with
rec
centers
I
want
to
thank
our
recreation
commissioner,
worth
working
on
that
getting
guns
out
of
the
hands
of
dangerous
people.
Councilman
Jones
I
want
to
thank
you
so
much
for
that
and
we
are
going
to
have
to
talk
about
while
we're
getting
guns
off
the
street.
D
We're
gonna
have
to
talk
about
getting
individuals
who
have
made
a
decision
that
they
don't
want
to
be
a
member
of
this
society.
All
right
we'll
talk
about
individuals
who
consistently
create
the
level
of
violence
in
communities
and
they
are
making
that
decision
that
they
don't
want
to
be
a
part
of
this
society
anymore.
So
they
continue
to
go
out
on
time.
After
time,
they're
caught
with
weapons,
they're
shooting
people
little
children
as
the
mayor
said,
can't
be
safe,
can't
watch
cartoons
they
probably
shouldn't
be
out
on
the
streets.
D
So
we
want
to
have
that
real
conversation.
So
I
just
want
to
thank
everybody
whose
involvement
is.
This
message
is
sent
today.
We're
gonna
deal
with
this
issue
in
a
meaningful
way.
With
respect
to
the
legislation
and
mr.
Abernathy
talked
about
you
know,
city
council
is
always
going
to
ask
for
more
money,
because
that's
what
we
do,
but
we
will
have.
D
We
will
have
that
spirited
conversation,
but
at
the
end
of
the
day,
the
one
underlying
thing
that
whatever
dollars
are
made
available,
they
will
be
for
the
purposes
of
protecting
the
citizens
and
giving
people
opportunity
in
the
city
of
Philadelphia.
So
I
just
want
to
thank
the
mayor.
Thank
you.
The
managing
director
won't
thank
my
colleagues
and
everybody
involved
for
their
very,
very
diligent
work
on
this
very,
very
important
issue.
Thank
you.
A
So
we
know
that
we
can't
do
this
work
without
City
Council's
help,
and
we
are
grateful
to
council
president
Clark
at
this
time.
We're
going
to
call
up
two
other
champions
with
us
from
City
Council,
councilman,
Kenyatta,
Johnson
and
Councilman
Curtis
Jones,
who
have
been
at
the
forefront
with
us
on
this
violence.
Prevention,
work.
E
So
election
day
was
yesterday
today
the
work
begins.
I
want
to
thank
mayor
Kenney,
who
we
see
each
other
in
passing,
sometimes
in
the
course
of
doing
our
work,
and
there
was
one
morning
one
stressful
morning
after
a
bad
weekend
in
Philadelphia,
and
he
may
not
remember
this-
he
was
coming
out
rushing
to
a
press
conference
or
some
other
form
of
work
and
the
look
on
his
face.
E
You
may
not
remember
that,
but
look
on
his
face
of
worrying
about
our
children
often
doing
harm
to
themselves,
and
others
was
something
that
gripped
me
and
it
made
me
go
into
the
building
and
work
a
little
harder.
We
have
recently
passed
red
flag
laws
that
we
don't
know
if
they're
going
to
get
stricken
stricken
down
by
the
Commonwealth
or
the
federal
government
or
but
we
don't
care.
We
have
the
responsibility
to
do
the
right
thing.
First
in
the
city
of
Philadelphia
and
let
the
chips
fall
where
they
may
win
Thank
You.
E
President
Clark,
my
colleague,
Kenyatta
Johnson
on
a
day
off,
went
up
to
what
is
it
Oaks
Pennsylvania
and
we
walked
into
a
room
where
there
was
a
gun
show,
and
it
reminded
me
of
the
movie
Jaws.
We
took
a
step
back.
We
saw
from
one
end
of
the
room
to
the
other
end
of
room
full
of
rifles,
explosive
shells
from
shotguns
that
when
they
hit
the
target
they
blow
up,
not
anything
for
deer
and
what
we
saw
that
was
disheartening.
Was
people
taking
those
weapons
going
out
into
the
parking
lot
and
making
secondary
transfer.
E
We
took
a
step
back
and
said:
we're
gonna
need
a
bigger
boat,
and
what
that
means
is
that
the
proliferation
of
guns
coming
into
our
community
is
an
onslaught
when
a
bigger
playground.
Seven
people
shot
thank
God,
none
of
them
fatally
Commissioner,
none
of
them
fatally,
but
it
reminds
me
of
I
watched
Unforgiven,
a
Clint
Eastwood
movie.
Less
people
got
shot
in
that
movie,
then,
on
that
weekend,
on
a
playground.
So
this
appropriations
is
a
step
in
the
right
direction,
a
step
in
the
right
direction.
E
We
are
putting
our
money
where
our
mouth
is
and
clearly
just
as
clear
as
I
can
understand
my
mayor's
economic
development
plan
or
his
environmental,
green
New
Deal
plan,
which
I've
read
I,
actually
read,
I
understand
and
thank
you
very
much,
our
anti
violence
plan
and
when
we
step
up
in
with
my
colleague
Maria-
and
we
talk
about
this
all
at
I'm,
Councilwoman
Blackwell,
Kenyatta
Johnson.
We
don't
even
watch
the
news
this
way
after
I
act
of
violence,
we
pray
for
the
soul
that
we
may
have
lost.
E
The
second
thing
is:
where
did
it
happen,
because
we're
going
to
have
to
have
a
response
to
it
and
our
babies
shouldn't
have
to
worry
about
playgrounds,
so
this
money
is
not
one-size-fits-all.
We
need
to
look
at
how,
through
the
plan
that
the
mayor's
administration
put
together,
how
we
appropriate
Andry,
appropriate
and
transfer
ordinance
monies
to
stop
the
bleeding
and
then
come
up
with
a
long-term
strategy
and
with
our
partners
in
the
community.
E
F
I'm
here
in
the
city
of
Philadelphia,
I
want
to
also
commend
on
the
council
president
district
attorney
Lee
Krasner
and
the
mayor
for
in
the
law
department
for
bringing
for
for
a
lawsuit
around
the
issue
of
loss
and
stolen
firearms.
The
same
way
that
if
someone
steals
your
car,
you
have
to
call
the
Philadelphia
Police
Department
and
notify
them
and
you're
not
responsible.
F
If
someone
else
is
hit
with
their
car
should
be
the
same
thing
that
happens
if
you
lose
your
gun
because
there
are
no
goosies
or
no
9-millimeters
made
in
Strawberry
Mansion
or
Point
Breeze,
and
the
question
is
always
asked
in
my
neighborhood:
where
are
these
children
getting
these
guns?
And
so
I'm,
very
optimistic
about
that
effort
and
I
figured
step
in
the
right
direction
to
hold
people
accountable,
who
own
firearms
and
as
the
member
of
counsel
I,
also
have
a
bill
that
deals
with
ghost
guns.
Most
of
you
may
not
know.
F
Now
you
don't
have
to
go
to
the
store
and
purchase
a
gun.
You
can
go
to
different
stores
and
gun,
shows
and
buy
parts
of
guns
put
that
gun
together
with
no
serial
number
and
use
that
gun
in
an
act
of
violence,
and
so
that
bill
strictly
goes
toward
banning
that
practice.
Here
in
the
city
of
Philadelphia,
I'll
continue
negotiating
mr.
mayor
and
your
team
regarding
a
transfer
ordinance
that
I
put
in
I.
Think
five
is
good.
F
I
think
10
is
better,
but
nevertheless
we
don't
want
to
just
also
be
providing
funds
without
an
actual
plan.
But
we
need
to
expand
to
making
sure
that
young
people
have
the
opportunity
to
work
year-round.
We
need
to
make
sure
when
people
come
home
from
prison,
they
have
opportunities
to
get
involved
with
things
that
are
positive,
because,
if
not
they'll
go
back
to
a
life
of
crime
and
violence
that
we
see
taking
place
here
on
the
street,
but
I
want
to
acknowledge
the
work
that
has
been
done
thus
far.
F
Some
folks
say
well
we're
not
doing
enough,
but
I
beg
to
differ
on
prior
to
this
administration.
We
had
no
money
to
give
to
many
organizations
and
nonprofits
what
we
call
boots
on
the
ground
to
address
this
issue
of
crime
and
violence.
On
prides
of
this
administration,
we
didn't
we
did
not
have
an
aggressive
crisis
intervention
team,
which
now
will
be
working
from
Monday
to
Sunday
out
on
the
street,
focusing
on
preventing
gun
violence
before
a
young
man
picks
up
a
gun
and
take
your
life
of
another
young
man
and
so
I'm
again.
F
F
What's
the
purpose
of
being
a
resident
here
in
the
city
of
Philadelphia,
and
so
for
me,
this
is
not
about
politics,
I'm,
a
dad
I'm,
a
father,
I'm,
an
african-american
man,
who's,
tired
and
sick
and
tired
of
saying
african-american
young
men
being
murdered,
and
we
have
to
be
aggressive
about
this
process.
This
thing
we
councilman
Jones
says
it
for
well
what
it
would
if
a
well
washed
up
on
the
shores
of
the
Delaware.
F
Excuse
me
Tribune.
The
type
of
support
that
we
would
see
to
address
that
issue
will
be
unbelievable.
It's
just
a
faction
the
reality
of
what
we're
dealing
with,
and
so
at
the
end
of
the
day,
we
have
to
be
aggressive
and
save
our
babies
and
save
our
children
and
mr.
mayor
and
your
team.
I
look
forward
to
working
with
you
as
we
move
forward
to
strategize
and
expand
the
level
of
resources
as
a
relates
to
addressing
the
issue
of
gun
violence.
Thank
you
very
much.
A
A
So
as
you've
heard
it
takes
everyone
to
make
a
difference
and
to
tackle
this
problem
of
violence
that
we're
experiencing
in
our
city
in
our
city
it
takes.
The
government
definitely
takes
the
community,
it
takes
our
Police
Department,
it
takes
the
district
attorney's
office.
It
takes
the
office
of
violence
prevention,
the
office
of
Criminal
Justice,
our
office
of
reentry
partnerships.
It
takes
everyone
we
can
think
of
in
this
city
to
tackle
this
problem,
and
so
we're
asking
you
all
to
come
together
with
us
so
that
we
can
make
a
difference
and
ultimately
save
some
lives.
A
We
are
confident
in
our
abilities
that
if
we
get
together,
we
can
do
this
and
it
will
increase
greatly
and
with
these
investments
we
will
be
able
to
have
much
more
of
an
effect
we
believe
in
the
community,
and
we
thank
our
community
partners
who
have
been
doing
a
terrific
jobs.
Many
of
our
community
partners
received
targeted
community
investment
grants
and
have
done
some
great
work
and
really
made
a
difference
in
their
communities.
At
this
point,
we
will
open
up
the
floor
for
questions.
A
So
the
district
attorney
has
been
at
the
table
with
us.
Some
of
his
staff
was
here
who
are
working
with
us.
I
did
see
them
in
the
room.
We
are
meeting
very
regularly,
both
with
the
district
attorney
with
state
representative
Movida
Johnson
rel,
and
they
have
indicated
that
they
are
committed
to
this
process.
A
So
the
first
phase,
if
you
will
some
might
call
it
a
pilot
I,
would
prefer
to
call
it
a
phase
because
it
will
be
a
phased
in
approach.
We
are
talking
about
started
in
West
Philadelphia
and
then
we
are
determining
where
we
start
by
the
police
department,
Intelligence
Unit,
doing
an
analysis
of
data
as
well
as
combination
of
a
few
other
things
into
the
areas
where
we
think
it
is
one
needed
the
most
and
to
where
will
be
most
efficient
or
most
able
to
be
ruled
out.
A
It
is
a
gun,
violence,
intervention.
It
is
one
of
the
tools
in
the
toolkit.
It's
not
the
only
gun,
violence
intervention
model,
but
it
is
certainly
one
of
the
tools
in
the
toolkit
that
we
think
will
be
very
effective
here.
It
is
an
evidence-based
program
and
we
are
working
with
David
Kennedy,
the
creator
of
the
model
from
John
Jay
College
in
New,
York
and.
F
I
just
wanted
back
four
nuts
up
on
this
on
this
one
particular
initiative
because
it
was
rolled
out,
it's
called
foolish
deterrent
and
it
was
rolled
out
and
the
17
Police
District
in
Point
Breeze
great
fairy,
and
what
makes
it
most
effective
is
it's
the
carrot
and
stick
approach
and
I'm
a
young
man.
I
grew
up
in
South.
Philadelphia
I
knew
the
streets.
F
The
reality
is,
you
have
to
give
your
men
an
option,
but
also
we
can't
be
compassionate
about
individuals
who
are
taking
the
lives
of
our
young
people
who
are
making
our
seniors
live
hostage
inside
their
homes
and
so,
at
the
end
of
the
day,
the
program
of
the
combination
of
the
US
Attorney's
Office,
the
District
Attorney's
Office,
to
fit
off
your
Philadelphia
Police,
Department,
and
also
compassionate
community
residents,
who
have
been
impacted
by
gun
violence
and
even
the
young
men
are
young.
Men
participate
in
a
call-out
session
and
in
that
call
out
session
they're.
F
A
A
A
Absolutely
so
we
work
very
closely
with
the
Department
of
Behavioral
Health
and
they
have
a
wealth
of
trauma
related
resources.
We
can
work
with
them
to
get
that
information
out
to
you
as
we're
trying
to
build
a
sort
of
resource,
the
repository
at
any
rate,
but
we
will
work
with
Department
of
Behavioral
Health
and
we
can
get
that
information
to
you.
A
So
CCIP
is
our
community
crisis
intervention
program.
I
believe
his
question
was
around.
If
we
have
not,
we
don't
have
data
directly
show
that
it
works
or
an
evaluation.
Yet,
what's
the
logic
behind
putting
more
money
behind
the
program,
I
will
say
to
you
to
the
logic
for
me:
now
we
don't
have
data
you're
correct
the
program
just
started
in
July
of
2018,
so
it
has
not
been
up
and
running
long
enough.
It
started
with
approximately
only
like
nine
people.
The
outcry
for
their
services,
though,
was
so
large
that
we
have
been.
A
You
know
looking
for
grants,
that's
the
state
grant
that
you're,
referring
to
as
well
as
getting
money
from
the
mayor
and
this
administration
to
expand
it.
If
you
go
in
the
neighborhoods,
the
people
in
the
neighborhood
will
tell
you
that
they
like
CCIP
it
had
the
we
put
them
out
there
as
credible
messengers.
Most
of
these
folks
are
employed.
They
come
from
the
neighborhood
that
they
actually
work
in,
so
they
have
a
amount
of
credibility.
A
It
also
adds
some
economy
to
that
neighborhood
by
also
giving
people
employment
right
that
come
out
of
that
neighborhood
they
try
and-
and
they
are
very
successful-
often
at
de-escalating
situations
that
occur
in
the
neighborhood
if
they
get
wind
of
anything,
they
try
to
respond.
If
we
think
that
some
of
our
homicides
of
retaliatory
in
nature-
and
they
try
to
cut
off
that
retaliation,
they
do
Hospital
based
intervention.
They
go
to
the
hospitals,
often
sometimes
there's
things
that
erupt
at
the
hospitals,
when
the
families
get
together
and
emotions
are
raw.
C
So
one
of
the
one
of
the
investments
that
I
didn't
mention
and
was
actually
a
recognition
of
to
improve
our
data
analysis
capacity,
and
so
we
are
part
of
the
transfer
appropriations
request-
is
to
build
to
build
that
capacity.
I
think
we
we
attempted
to
do
some
of
that
analysis
internally
and
we
haven't
been
as
successful
as
we'd
like
to
be,
and
we
recognize
that
and
we're
trying
to
address
it
through
additional
funding.
So
we
can
add
those
resources
and
expertise.
B
I'd
like
to
know
a
ban
assault
weapons
and
not
make
them
available
either
for
sale
legally
at
a
gun
shop
or
is
for
sale
at
a
gun.
A
gun
show
these.
These
weapons
are
not
made
for
sport
they're
made
for
killing.
You
couldn't
shoot
a
deer
with
a
ak-47.
You
tear
up
that.
You
tear
up
the
game
you're
trying
to
to
you,
know
to
bring
down
for
food
or
whatever
it's
just.
It's
just
they're
killing
machines
and
the
NRA
is
not
representative
of
gun
owners.
They're
representative
of
gun
manufacturers.
It's
all
about
greed,
it's
greed!
B
B
Okay,
well,
we
are
working.
We
are
working
on
our
police
interaction
with
our
public
we've
reduced
the
pedestrian
stops
on
the
street
by
200,000,
or
so
we've
gotten
more
guns
off
the
street.
With
that
reduction,
where
we've
been
where
now
that
these
car
stop
situation
needs
to
be
addressed
as
as
well
as
the
pedestrian
stops
on
the
street,
we
cannot
develop
a
relationship
between
the
police
and
community
by
having
people
feel
like
they're,
being
arrests
if
they
get
in
their
car
to
drive
so
we'll
be
working
with
the
police.
B
Commissioner,
to
address
that,
we
addressed
the
pedestrian
stops
because
it
was
part
of
the
lawsuit
with
the
ACLU
and
now
this
information
has
been
brought
to
our
attention
and
we're
addressing
that.
We're
going
to
start
addressing
that
now,
unless
you
have
some
positive
result
of
a
car,
stop
or
a
ped
stop
it
shouldn't
be
stopped.
B
Anybody
who
has
the
capacity
to
shoot
up
a
house
with
an
ak-47
and
kill
a
two-year-old
I
mean
that
person
obviously
needs
to
be
away
forever,
and
we
we
have
to
get
in
a
situation
where
kids,
who
are
getting
hopefully
a
better
education,
because
our
investments
will
be
able
to
take
a
job
that
pays
a
living
wage.
That
pays
a
sustainable
wage.
So
they
don't
think
about
doing
anything.
You
know
on
the
street
that
we
wouldn't
want
them
to
do,
and
it's
it's
a
combination
of
things.
B
I
mean
I,
wish
the
state
of
Pennsylvania
would
it
would
would
thoroughly
and
fairly
invest
in
education
from
pre-k
to
college,
but
they
decide
they
don't
want
to,
and
we
wind
up
with
dealing
with
it
with
the
end
result
of
those
problems.
Well,
I'm,
not
whining
we're
going
to
do
what
we
can
to
to
fix
it,
but
we're
not.