Scene: The Managing Director’s Office inside Philadelphia’s Municipal Services Building in the Year of our Lord 2017.
Seated around a conference table are a handful of city officials touting the first Office of Violence Prevention, and its mission to evaluate the effectiveness of tens of millions in taxpayer-funded violence prevention programs.
A grand endeavor, they boast. Long overdue, sniffs the salty columnist seated among them.
And so it shall be done! declares the bullish band of bureaucrats.
Fast-forward four-plus years, three managing directors, a revolving roster of six-figure violence prevention experts, 1,787 homicides and counting and a drumbeat of columns calling for promised accountability, and here we are: Another city budget and another vote for millions in new spending for violence preventio
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