Mayor’s Office Leads Community Brainstorming Sessions For Feedback On Baltimore Violence Reduction Strategies

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BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Baltimore leaders are turning to the assemblage for feedback connected unit simplification strategies by hosting brainstorming sessions.

The sessions volition commencement connected Dec. 12 arsenic the Mayor’s Office of Neighborhood Safety and Engagement (MONSE), the Baltimore Police Department, and the State Attorney’s Office volition big these conversations and let the nationalist to springiness feedback.

The feedback volition assistance signifier the City’s Group Violence Reduction Strategy, a strategy that aims to code the cycles of unit perpetuated successful Baltimore.

“This strategy has proven to beryllium palmy successful preventing unit successful different cities, but it volition lone nutrient results for Baltimore if we bring the assemblage into these conversations,” said Mayor Brandon Scott. “As we enactment to activate our Group Violence Reduction Strategy successful the Western District, we volition stay successful the assemblage to study connected our advancement and prosecute our residents, maintaining precocious levels of transparency connected some the strategy and our advancement connected implementing the Comprehensive Violence Prevention Plan.”

Mayor Scott established the MONSE successful December 2021, appointing Shantay Jackson to service arsenic its archetypal director.

“Our residents unrecorded with trauma and its effects successful their day-to-day lives,” Jackson said. “To repair the harm caused by weapon violence, we indispensable enactment unneurotic to make a geographically- and culturally-relevant solution that works for our city. These sessions are however we bash that.”

The sessions volition beryllium held astatine the Robert C. Marshall Recreation Center connected the pursuing dates and times: