Mayor Donna Deegan is in London, but she talked with News4JAX on Wednesday about the troubling violent crimes happening in Jacksonville.
Mayor Donna Deegan is in London working to bring business and jobs to Jacksonville. But, she made time to talk with News4JAX on Wednesday about the troubling violent crimes happening in the city.“So I am not going to say this is going to be an easy problem to solve,” Deegan said. “But I think we have to go, we have to look from the root causes of why these things are happening and work our way up. And that comes down to a lot of a lot of education and prevention.
“It’s not going to where the kids are,” Yvonne Brockington said. “They’re going to people in politics. They’re going to non-profits. The funding does not get to the community.”“That’s why we talk so much about parks. That’s why we talk so much about youth programs. That’s why we talk so much about literacy. You know, that’s one of the things we were investing in with this new budget is literacy,” Deegan said.
Former Assistant Chief at JSO, Lakesha Burton, also spoke with us on Wednesday. Burton is now working for the mayor’s office heading up community initiatives.
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