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Stopping the violence: Why changing the gun culture in Harrisburg won’t come from a quick fix
Updated Dec 23, 2020;
Posted Dec 23, 2020
Police investigate a shooting in the 300 block of Hummel Street in Harrisburg, November 13, 2020. Dan Gleiter | [email protected]
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Twenty-four people were hit by bullets. Four of them died.
And the majority of the people involved have been teens and others in their early 20s.
Police Commissioner Thomas Carter says he wants to get guns off the street and prevent youths from joining neighborhood gangs. Mayor Eric Papenfuse introduced a city budget that creates a community policing division entirely devoted to developing the partnership between Harrisburg residents and the officers that patrol their neighborhoods. ....

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