After listening for months, city sets to work on anti-violence strategy
One tactic to reduce gun violence in Salem would be to gather those at risk together with community leaders to talk, a consultant explained Thursday.
Such an approach has worked elsewhere, according to Ben McBride, CEO and co-founder of the Empower Initiative. He’s been retained by the city of Salem to help tap into community sentiments about gun violence and frame a strategy to pull down the number of shootings.
McBride moderated the fifth in…
