“None of us is as bad as the worst decision we’ve made. And none of us can navigate this life we’ve been blessed with on our own—however that life looks and wherever it might take us,” Terun Moore writes.
Parts of Mississippi’s capital city is seeing a “saturation” of additional police presence that Gov. Tate Reeves promises will counter a spike in crime and violence that has worsened since the pandemic began. But violence experts warn that a swelling police presence may not be effective, and it actually harm communities.
Street outreach workers are doubling as messengers on avoiding infection. But the outbreak hasn’t stopped everyone. Nearly 200 street outreach workers continue to patrol the
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