Healey, law enforcement highlight Project Safe Neighborhoods results and urge continued tech, youth investments

Governor Maura Healey met with law enforcement and local leaders Tuesday at the Lynn Police Department to spotlight results from Project Safe Neighborhoods grants and press for continued investment in technology and youth-prevention programs to reduce crime.

The roundtable — the third of three public-safety convenings this year after meetings in Brockton and Holyoke — brought state police, municipal chiefs, district attorneys and nonprofit partners to discuss partnership-driven investigations and community prevention work that officials said has helped make neighborhoods safer.

"The importance of investing in public safety, investing in law enforcement, investing in the technology and the resources that help, investigate and hold people accountable, and the importance of investing in community prevention programs," Governor Maura Healey said, summarizing the administration's approach to public safety. Healey and other officials credited Project Safe Neighborhoods funding with recent enforcement…