Lackawanna County school grant may help counter gangs
State Sen. Marty Flynn announced the Scranton School District will receive $2 million in additional block grant funding
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State Sen. Marty Flynn announced the Scranton School District will receive $2 million in additional block grant funding
Newswatch 16's Courtney Harrison spoke with the local police on the front lines of that fight.
MADISON (WKOW) -- Anthony Cooper serves as the CEO of Focused Interruption, an organization that works to interrupt what its members believe are becoming all too common deaths by guns.
"The bottom line is ... there are no jurisdiction lines that will prevent us from coming for you," FBI Special Agent in Charge Jermicha Fombey said.
Illinois getting over $8.1 billion is a gun reduction strategy. 15 jurisdictions nationwide are helping them invest in evidence-based community based strategy. your reaction to that? >> here's my reaction. everybody wants to blame the gun. you're going to blame the inanimate object. it's like me blaming the spoon because i put so much weight on. if to go after people. we the people problem in the city of chicago. we've gangs raising children. you want to blame surrounding states where the guns are funk, coming from but they don't have anywhere near the gun violence that we have. you need to po...