![]() (Kim Hairston/The Baltimore Sun )Īs mayor-elect Scott had promised to form a committee to explore ways to shift money from the police department to services that could address root causes of the violence. Wilson, a 44-year-old Safe Streets Cherry Hill outreach worker, was killed about one-week after Cherry Hill celebrated one year without a homicide. Safe Streets members attend a July service for Kenyell "Benny Bop" Wilson at Wylie Funeral Home. ![]() The mayor’s anti-violence strategy calls for, among other things, nearly tripling the city’s violence intervention programs, increasing efforts to catch gun traffickers and honing a group violence reduction strategy to locate the people most likely to be shot or do the shooting. “We can’t accept that this life loss is normal,” he said. Scott told The Baltimore Sun he was “pissed off” that gun violence continues unabated, and he shares the feelings of impatience. That would put the toll below 290 deaths. He set a goal of reducing homicides by 15% annually. Scott sought to lay groundwork this year, creating task forces and allocating money for “trauma-informed care” and violence intervention programs such as Safe Streets. ![]() Mayor Brandon Scott has called the continued bloodshed a historical problem, arguing that quick fixes of the past worsened problems today. ![]() Evelyn Player, 69, was killed in November at her church in East Baltimore by a suspect with a long criminal history who had recently finished his term of state supervision. ![]()
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