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The COVID-19 pandemic brought a rise in gun violence and homicides. For many cities, a post-COVID future means serious investments against violence from guns.This past January, the New Orleans City Council met to discuss violent crime in a city with the highest rate of homicides in America. The meeting stretched six hours, nearly half of that time filled by comments from those tired of needing to make them.
"People see us," said Pep."We can change our life. There are times that they know that we could have went backwards, but we didn't. That's what makes you credible." He left in 2020 when he says the city got too involved in the violence interrupter program. The program all but shuttered that year, just as homicides began to rise.
The city's current plan includes giveaways of biometric gun locks and a non-police-based 911 team. At that January meeting, the council voted for the Health Department to run a new intervention program based out of the hospital featuring hospital employees as interrupters.
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