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Probation officer who protected offenders was leading anti-violence effort

Prior to her resignation on Monday, Helwa Qasem was leading the city s anti-violence efforts in the Department of Public Safety. ....

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Columbus anti-violence program to offer gang members way out

Columbus is launching a new initiative seeking to reduce violent crime by offering those in violent gangs or groups a way out, city officials say. ....

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Columbus anti-violence strategy not implemented fast enough — critics

Columbus anti-violence strategy not implemented fast enough — critics
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Columbus program hopes to determine which 911 calls aret emergencies

The city of Columbus is rolling out a four-to-six-week pilot program on Monday that will help determine whether 911 calls need an emergency response by police and firefighter-medics or by others, such as social workers or clinicans who are better equipped to deal with mental health or substance abuse issues.
For far too often and long, we ve asked police officers to be social workers, medics, Mayor Andrew J. Ginther said Friday during a news conference to announce what is being called the Alternative Response Pilot Program. The event was held at Columbus Public Health near Downtown.
A paramedic and Columbus Public Health clinician will be embedded in the city s 911 call center to help triage calls and determine whether police and fire should be responding to calls or someone else, said Columbus Fire Capt. Matt Parrish. ....

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BREAD calls for Columbus police reform at annual Nehemiah Action event

It’s happened with such regularity that by now the reaction seems routine: police shoot and kill a Black person, and protesters gather in the streets of Columbus.
Twice in April, protests formed within hours of the news that police had first shot and killed 27-year-old Miles Jackson on April 12 at Mount Carmel St. Ann s medical center after he fired a gun in the emergency department, and then again when a Columbus officer shot 16-year-old Ma’Khia Bryant on April 20 in response to Bryant wielding a knife against a young woman.
But while the responses to fatal police shootings are swift, James Wynn contends that each killing of a Black person reopens wounds in communities of color that have been allowed to fester for much longer than any one protest can last. ....

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