Local lawmakers explain funding to combat violent crime – WIFR (Rockford)

Under Illinois’ new Reimagine Public Safety Act, $50 million in state funds will be split between 10 cities, excluding Chicago, and will go toward community-based efforts to address addiction, mental illness, youth trauma and other underlying causes of firearm violence. Selection was based on per-capita firearm violence from 2016-2020.

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