State Attorney on Jacksonville violence: Enforcement itself won’t fix underlying issues
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She has promised criminal justice reform and fairer, smarter prosecutions.
But many in Jacksonville are still worried about violence in their neighborhoods, especially after the 176 homicides reported in 2020 the highest in the last 20 years.
Nelson said public safety and dealing with violence in the community is her office’s top priority.
“We are constantly looking to what other successes have been had in other jurisdictions and worked to implement those same things here,” Nelson said in an interview Wednesday on The Morning Show. “We work hand in glove with our law enforcement partners to try to solve those cases and we see those cases from the very first inception of the crime, through to the end.”