For Philadelphia City Councilmember Curtis Jones, the recovery of 12-year-old Hezekiah Bernard’s body in a West Philadelphia trash can last month became the latest motivation to make a once-and-for-all plan
Activists, lawmakers, and business leaders will spend Saturday discussing gun violence action items. They plan to send a “white paper” to the next mayor.
Last year, Temple University’s Violence Reduction Task Force issued its findings and recommendations to university leadership. Chief among those recommendations was the university’s need to develop a comprehensive and coordinated strategy for community engagement efforts focused on violence reduction.