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INTRODUCTORY*
CITY OF BALTIMORE
COUNCIL BILL R
(Resolution)
Introduced by: President Rawlings-Blake
A RESOLUTION ENTITLED
A COUNCIL RESOLUTION concerning
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Inter-Agency Violent Crime Reduction Strategy
FOR the purpose of requesting the Baltimore City Police Commissioner, the Baltimore City Health Commissioner, and the Director of Recreation and Parks to combine the unique resources of each agency to develop an interactive, inter-agency strategy to address health, criminal justice, recreation, employment, and other socio-economic issues confronting Baltimore City youth in a comprehensive response to the factors that contribute to or facilitate acts of violence by or upon our City's most vulnerable citizens.
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Recently Baltimore City residents received both encouraging and disconcerting news about the amount violent crime in our neighborhoods - while on one hand overall violent crime, including robberies and aggravated assaults, is down, on the other, the number of homicides and shootings threatens to spiral out of control - driven, according to law enforcement experts, by an increase in violence perpetuated on youth by other youth.
In an effort to combat the troubling increase in violence, especially that attributed to youth, several City agencies have tailored programs to deal specifically with the needs of juveniles and to provide them an outlet for socialization that steers them away from gangs and gang-related criminal activity.
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