ORWIGSBURG — Hearing the sound of an 1861 Springfield rifled musket being fired in the middle of Centre Square, downtown Orwigsburg, is not something you hear every day.
Shootings are an epidemic, and Detroit is experimenting with community groups that sponsor gardens, youth outreach and even armed citizen patrols. So-called community violence intervention has mixed results nationally, but advocates say relying on police solely is misguided.
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Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price prefers insisting crime perpetrators are the actual victims over speaking with family members of murder victims.