Johnson: As plans addressing Birmingham gun scourge emerge, business leaders must not be silent

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For generations, business leaders throughout the region served on non-profit boards and wrote checks. In the wake of mass shooting and continued gun violence, they must do more.

It’s Birmingham’s business community. It’s our business leaders. It’s the folks atop the companies that are at the apex of the city’s economy and the region’s growth. Companies that drive Birmingham metro’s status as the eight-cylinder engine in the state’s GDP, generating one of every three dollars, more than any other region.

If handwringing made a sound our ears might bleed. I’m sure “What should we do?” has been asked so many times in corporate conference rooms, the chorus would drown out the Sunday morning praise team. Business leaders, show us who you are. Show your faces and lift your voices. Show us that you view the people in Birmingham to be as pertinent as profits.of their city. By contrast, most of us wouldn’t know the heads of Alabama Power, Protective, Regions, Brasfield & Gorrie, Spire, Vulcan Materials, PNC Bank, Altec Industries, Shipt, Buffalo Rock, or any of the otherSuccessful public-private partnerships are not new to Birmingham and have long thrived.

Last year, councilor J.T. Moore was not a whole-hearted supporter of the program, feeling the emphasis should be on reaching victimsthey’re shot. Last week, however, Moore, in maybe the most salient observation amid the weeks, months, and years of senseless killings, unflinchingly backed expansion, citing results. “People lie, bodies don’t,” he said.

Bean noted similar declines in gun violence on other cities that have implemented the street team model, including Oakland , New York , Baltimore , Los Angeles , and Richmond . The mayor will ask the council to approve $1.5 million to fund a pilot. The overall cost is $2 million; $500,000 has been reallocated from funds already approved, Bean said.

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