Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms speaks during a property league astatine City Hall connected Friday, July 16, 2021. (Photo Credit: Itoro N. Umontuen/The Atlanta Voice)
ATLANTA (AP) — Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms has named a manager for her caller Office of Violence Reduction.
Jacquel Clemons Moore is simply a nationalist wellness adept who has antecedently served arsenic a person with the Kings Against Violence Initiative, Inc., a nonprofit that offers involution programs successful Brooklyn to forestall younker violence, according to the mayor’s office. Bottoms announced her enactment connected Friday and said it is effectual to December 1.
“Combatting unit is simply a profoundly idiosyncratic contented for me, arsenic it is for truthful galore radical crossed our large city,” Clemons Moore said successful a quality merchandise enactment retired by the mayor’s office. “I look guardant to moving hand-in-hand with our communities and stakeholders to instrumentality evidence-informed, assemblage driven solutions to trim interpersonal violence.”
The unit simplification bureau was portion of a bundle of recommendations made by an advisory assembly successful July to code a question of convulsive crime. Bottoms said Friday the metropolis volition widen a unit prevention programme to 2 further areas — the Westside and Southwest Atlanta.
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