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Metro officials meet with senator, emphasize role technology has in arrests

Payne serves as a Community Outreach Advocate, leading the One Lexington Crisis Response efforts.

The law makes a few criminal penalties more severe, including those for crimes involving use of a firearm.

"The whole purpose is to provide resources and address the underlying causes of gun violence," said Garcia.+

Small local businesses in San Francisco's Mission District paid it forward Sunday as they hosted a toy drive for kids in the community.

San Francisco is looking to expand trauma counseling to people in close proximity to gun violence, not only victims.

Hospitals are the front lines of public health emergencies and that includes the plague of gun violence in America. Intervention programs help kickstart positive change from a patient's bedside.

Seven agencies in Linn and Johnson counties have received $1.3 million in state and federal funding for programs that house and help homeless individuals. The Iowa Finance Authority last week

Early data from TBI indicates violent crime falling and property crime rising as 2022 begins to wind down.

Advocates say there was a spike in domestic abuse cases in Des Moines County this past year. But not all incidents are being reported to police.