Hartford Mayor Calls Strategy Meeting In Wake Of Shootings

By PAT EATON-ROBB, Associated Press, San Francisco Chronicle
Thu, 05/28/2015 - 3:00pm

Jim Le, who owns a car repair shop across the street from Sealy's church and less than a mile from the Capitol building, said he and others are frightened. Police say unlike the 1990s, when gang violence was rampant and there were several years with more than 30 homicides (55 in 1994), no single factor can be pinpointed for the recent outbreak. "Many of these shootings involve young men in poverty who don't have jobs and are settling minor disputes with guns," said Deputy Police Chief Brian Foley. The city council this week passed a budget that includes $1.2 million for a summer youth employment program in which the city works with local companies to hire Hartford teens. Another $250,000 was allocated to create a federal "Promise Zone" in the North End, designed to help steer federal money to local education and jobs programs.

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