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Donald Trump Cut Hundreds of Millions of Dollars for Public Safety. It Will Cost Lives. [1]

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Date: 2025-05-07 13:23:10-04:00

Community violence intervention (CVI) programs work to stop violence before it happens through a variety of strategies. These include street outreach, in which peacemakers who are already ingrained in their communities mediate potentially violent conflicts, respond to shootings, support victims and their families, and provide much-needed access to social services. Other strategies include hospital-based violence intervention programs, case management, transformational mentoring programs, and much more.

These programs often work at the ground level and do not receive much media attention, but that doesn’t mean they don’t save lives daily. Many CVI programs are already underfunded—and now the Trump administration’s unnecessary cuts will make their mission to save lives even more challenging.

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[1] Url: https://giffords.org/analysis/donald-trump-cut-hundreds-of-millions-of-dollars-for-public-safety-it-will-cost-lives/

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