KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) – A joint effort between the City of Kalamazoo and Kalamazoo County effort to end the growing gun violence in the area will be presenting its first recommendations soon.
Elected officials from both units of government have been meeting to come up with a plan.
Kalamazoo City Commissioner Don Cooney says he has been impressed with measures already taken by the Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety and other community agencies to reduce gun casualties in the city.
$2 million from federal COVID-19 relief funds has been set aside for the effort, and Interim Kalamazoo County Administrator Jim Rutherford says the first proposals could come soon.
Officials with both the City and county say the roots of the gun violence problem run very deep and it will not be cheap, quick or easy to dig them out.
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