Boston Mayor Michelle Wu touted two years of record-low gun violence during her State of the City address earlier this week, but in an interview for Sunday’s episode of “On The Record,” she acknowledges the job is not done. “For the experience of family members who are grieving, for communities who are living with trauma, those numbers don’t reset every year. It sits for a lifetime and generations,” Wu said in an interview for Sunday’s episode. “And so our goal: We won’t be happy or satisfied until we end violence everywhere in the city.”Wu spoke in her State of the City about the city’s investments in support for those impacted by trauma and boasted that police “took more than 800 guns off the street” last year. During her interview for OTR, Wu also spoke about ways the community can help to inform how policing is handled. “Public safety is really a shared responsibility, and it’s one that we need to open up to everyone,” Wu said. She cited committees that meet to bring police face-to-face with members of the community and the publicization of crime data from the Boston Police Department.”Everyone is invited in,” she said. “Sure, people learn about what’s happening, but they are informing the Boston Police with new strategies on how to keep everyone safe.”See OTR’s full interview with Wu on Sunday at 11 a.m.
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu touted two years of record-low gun violence during her State of the City address earlier this week, but in an interview for Sunday’s episode of “On The Record,” she acknowledges the job is not done.
“For the experience of family members who are grieving, for communities who are living with trauma, those numbers don’t reset every year. It sits for a lifetime and generations,” Wu said in an interview for Sunday’s episode. “And so our goal: We won’t be happy or satisfied until we end violence everywhere in the city.”
Wu spoke in her State of the City about the city’s investments in support for those impacted by trauma and boasted that police “took more than 800 guns off the street” last year.
During her interview for OTR, Wu also spoke about ways the community can help to inform how policing is handled.
“Public safety is really a shared responsibility, and it’s one that we need to open up to everyone,” Wu said.
She cited committees that meet to bring police face-to-face with members of the community and the publicization of crime data from the Boston Police Department.
“Everyone is invited in,” she said. “Sure, people learn about what’s happening, but they are informing the Boston Police with new strategies on how to keep everyone safe.”
See OTR’s full interview with Wu on Sunday at 11 a.m.
