Considering a community-first approach to public safety and crime prevention - Austin Monitor

With the federal government putting 14,000 new school-based mental health professionals in close proximity to young children in recent years, he said it's no accident there was a 12.4 percent decrease in homicides nationally in 2023.

Anything that can create time and space between someone in crisis and their firearm is valuable, whether that's a red flag law that maybe removes the gun from the home, or we've seen some innovative strategies that just take the person away from the home.

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