City of Philadelphia - File #: 060971

• File #: 060971
• Version: 0
• Type: Resolution
• Status: ADOPTED
• File created: 12/14/2006
• In control: Committee on Public Safety
• Title: Authorizing City Council's Committee on Public Safety to hold public hearings focusing primarily on testimony of Philadelphia youth and young adults regarding gun related and violent crime in our communities, so as to include their experiences and views in developing plans, actions and policy to reduce or eliminate these occurrences and their horrific impact on our young citizens and communities.
• Sponsors: Councilmember Miller, Councilmember Miller, Councilmember Tasco, Councilmember Tasco, Councilmember DiCicco, Councilmember DiCicco, Councilmember Goode, Councilmember Goode, Councilmember Campbell, Councilmember Campbell, Councilmember Clarke, Councilmember Clarke, Councilmember Reynolds Brown, Councilmember Reynolds Brown, Councilmember Greenlee, Councilmember Greenlee, Councilmember Savage, Councilmember Savage, Councilmember Blackwell, Councilmember Blackwell, Council President Verna, Council President Verna, Councilmember Rizzo, Councilmember Rizzo, Councilmember Krajewski, Councilmember Krajewski, Councilmember O'Neill, Councilmember O'Neill, Councilmember Kelly, Councilmember Kenney, Councilmember Ramos

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result	Tally
1/30/2007	0	Committee on Public Safety	HEARING NOTICES SENT
1/30/2007	0	Committee on Public Safety	HEARING NOTICES SENT
1/30/2007	0	Committee on Public Safety	HEARING HELD
1/30/2007	0	Committee on Public Safety	HEARING HELD
1/30/2007	0	Committee on Public Safety	RECESSED
1/30/2007	0	Committee on Public Safety	RECESSED
12/14/2006	0	CITY COUNCIL	ADOPTED & REFERRED
12/14/2006	0	CITY COUNCIL	ADOPTED & REFERRED
12/14/2006	0	CITY COUNCIL	READ
12/14/2006	0	CITY COUNCIL	READ
12/14/2006	0	CITY COUNCIL	Introduced	Pass
12/14/2006	0	CITY COUNCIL	Introduced	Pass

Title
Authorizing City Council's Committee on Public Safety to hold public hearings focusing primarily on testimony of Philadelphia youth and young adults regarding gun related and violent crime in our communities, so as to include their experiences and views in developing plans, actions and policy to reduce or eliminate these occurrences and their horrific impact on our young citizens and communities.
Body
WHEREAS, Statistics and reports continue to show that the greater majority of those persons involved in or victims of gun related and other violent crime in our City are teens and/or under the age of thirty; and

WHEREAS, Many legislators, community leaders, local law enforcement officials and others have gathered to discuss techniques and strategies to stop gun related and other violent crime that has devastated or taken the lives of an unacceptable number of Philadelphia's youth and young adults; and

WHEREAS, The purpose of these meetings and conferences is to develop, implement and support all plans and efforts to reduce the level of gun related and other violent crime that is horrifying all Philadelphians; and

WHEREAS, Initiatives and programs like the Youth Violence Reduction Partnership, Don't Fall Down in the Hood, The Blueprint for a Safer Philadelphia, the Safe Neighborhood Initiative, the Community Education and Involvement Program, and others, specifically target the City's most dangerous and at-risk younger citizens for intensive treatment and monitoring, employing persons with the training required to work with local, state and federal law enforcement, probation and parole officials to pr5ovide services and programming for at-risk or offending teens and young adults embedded in the criminal justice system for gun related and other violent crimes; and

WHEREAS, It is critical and appropriate for any public policy, action or plan to consider the perspectives, experiences and views of those most involved with and affected by the...