Zellnor Myrie: “We passed a bill called the Community Violence Intervention…”

“And one of the things I wanted to start with was identifying gun violence as what it is, and that is a public health crisis. And so We passed a bill called the Community Violence Intervention act that put that in our statutes and said gun violence is a public health crisis that is in our New York laws. And because of that, certain types of intervention are necessary, including hospital based intervention and community based intervention.” (11:29–11:40)

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