Chief Medical Examiner James Gill testified that homicides jumped 30% in 2020 when compared to 2019.
“I’m asking government to move out of the way and allow these people to collectively to do the work that needs to be done,” Sen. Marilyn Moore (D-Bridgeport) said.
Moore said she wants to see the money go to community nonprofits and not the police or government agencies.
“What we are seeing in our cities is a slow banal, mass killing and this state is doing almost nothing about it,” Sen. Gary Winfield said.
Winfield said it’s not just about more gun laws.
“If we want to fix the things that we see we have to first admit that policy has built us to this place,” he said.