DAYTON — A community meeting will happen today to discuss how to cut down on violence in Dayton.
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As previously reported by News Center 7, Dayton Mayor Jeffrey Mims Jr. has been working on a violence interruption program since the outbreaks of violence last summer.
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He asked people on social media to attend the meeting.
“Join us for an important conversation on making our communities safer,” he said in a Facebook post. “Your voice matters as we work together to create lasting solutions. Let’s build a safer Dayton—together!”
The meeting is scheduled to start at 5:30 p.m. at the Northwest Rec. Center. It is at the 1600 block of Princeton Drive in Dayton.
News Center 7′s Xavier Hershovitz said this all started when a string of gun violence incidents left several dead, as reported on News Center 7 Daybreak.
A woman lives in a neighborhood where a house party turned deadly last summer after a drive-by shooting.
Vera Bozeman told News Center 7 she is not sure how you stop violence, but knows there has been a lot of it.
“It’s all over the TV, you know. It’s all over, you know, the Internet, that’s what the kids see,” she said.
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