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Montgomery official unveils 'Together We Rise' violence-reduction plan as city cites falling crime rates
Summary
A Montgomery city official outlined the Together We Rise initiative to reduce violent crime through outreach, mental-health services and technology while noting year-over-year drops in violent and nonviolent crime; the remarks also criticized federal grant cuts to community violence intervention programs.
A city official for Montgomery announced a new initiative, Together We Rise, aimed at reducing violent crime by addressing root causes and expanding prevention services, and said city statistics show year-over-year declines in several crime categories.
"Together We Rise is a city wide effort to reduce violent crime by targeting its root causes, especially in neighborhoods that have caused, so much pain and seen so much of the suffering," the city official said, adding the plan will fund street outreach teams, mental-health services and crime-intervention partnerships.
The official placed the prevention work alongside traditional policing, saying the city had increased recruitment…
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