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Jacksonville faith leaders push to end gun violence, ask sheriff to expand strategies to stop street gangs
Jacksonville faith leaders with the group ICARE will gather Monday evening for the yearly Nehemiah Action Assembly at the Abyssinia Missionary Baptist Church where they will press for solutions to end violent crime in the city.
After string of shootings, local organization attempts to prevent future shootings
Keith Oglesby, the co-president of Interfaith Coalition for Action, Reconciliation & Empowerment or ICARE, says that the violence in the city is something theyโre working to combat because itโs sad that the residents must deal with this.
Jacksonville community leaders celebrate progress with JSO
An interfaith group of Jacksonville community leaders is celebrating a pledge from Sheriff Mike Williams, whom the group says has agreed to more discussions about how police respond to mental health crises and alternatives to arrests for minor crimes.