“At the end of the day, the convergence of trauma and access to guns is what creates the lack of safety, whether it’s personal, one-to-one or small group violence or the mass shooting tragedy like we saw in Buffalo this weekend.”
“Who are the individuals on both sides ... that we need to look at on that day, work with on that day, so that nothing else comes out of that pain that those folks were feeling for the first?” Ford said. “How do we look at working with public safety to make sure that we keep the two groups away from each other?”Cheryl Riviere, the managing director of community safety for
“We’re still feeling it,” Riviere said. “He was out working, talking to one of his participants, trying to get them on the right track.” Ford said the passage of the Build Back Better Act, which would provide robust funding, programs and services to the public, could help fill gaps in the lack of resources, including investments in youth, playgrounds and mental health care.
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