Marty Wegbreit is about to retire after 43 years of providing legal assistance to Virginians who need it, including 19 at the Central Virginia Legal Aid Society in Richmond.
"Hopewell is small, 11 square miles, 24,000 people, but out of 24,000 people, we’re really looking at 42 that are the likely shooters or to be victims of gun violence."
RISC, or Richmonders Involved to Strengthen Communities, brings the faith community together to find solutions to critical problems including poverty, mental health issues, and gun violence.
A crime-reduction initiative that Mayor Levar M. Stoney has spurned apparently will come to Richmond after all.
The city’s housing authority is partnering with the nonprofit REAL LIFE to implement the same initiative in Richmond that is credited with dramatically cutting shootings and violent crime in Hopewell.