What’s missing from the puzzle?
Part of Lisch’s and Briscoe’s job is to connect with other cities and keep tabs on other gun violence programs and policies that King County and Seattle could start. But, Briscoe said, “I don’t know if there’s any magic thing out there that’s a shiny new thing we want to try.”
Instead, it’s about scaling up the tools the city and county already have in place.
Part of that scaling, in Briscoe’s view, should include expanding the community violence intervention programs and professionalizing them the way police, fire, EMTs and nurses are professionalized. “They should have the same type of benefits, they should have access
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