Everyone deserves to feel safe in our neighborhoods, at school or at the grocery store. The Bibb administration is committed to taking a comprehensive approach to improve public safety to address gun violence and prevent violent crime.
Mayor Bibb’s Violence Prevention Strategy seeks to:
- Deploy more police officers to walk the streets and solve crimes
- Invest in education and after-school programs to keep children and young people engaged
- Ensure seniors are connected to city and social services to keep them safe
- Keep people who commit violent crime off the streets
- Crack down on illegal guns and keep weapons out of the hands of criminals
- Divert people experiencing a mental health crisis to support services
This framework is a first-step towards a comprehensive strategy that will address immediate needs and act as a long-term plan guided by a theory of change to address violence. The following overarching pathways — Intervention and Prevention, Communication and Engagement, and Social Justice and Public Safety — clarify how this strategy will lead to results.
VIOLENCE PREVENTION LANDSCAPE
This review is rooted in a public health approach with an equity lens: 1) define the problem; 2) investigate why violence occurs; 3) explore ways to prevent violence; 4) scale up proven and promising interventions. Along with this public health approach, there is also a commitment to equity that listens to and includes community in the design and interventions for preventing violence.
Download a draft of the Violence Prevention Landscape.
THE TEAM
Mayor Bibb established the first internal cross-enterprise violence prevention workgroup. These cabinet level members and staff from communications, public safety, community relations, government affairs, the division of police , and the health department are charged with serving as the thought leadership and clearinghouse for programs and partnerships established to address violence in Cleveland.
The workgroup includes:
Chief Sonya Pryor-Jones, Youth and Family Success
Chief Dornat Drummond, Division of Police
Chief Sarah Johnson, Communications
Director Angela Shute-Woodson, Community Relations Board
Marie Zickefoose, Press Secretary
Commissioner Lita Marie Wills, Division of Health and Social Justice
Taylor DiPlacido, Graphic Designer