“You’ve heard about Zika and different diseases that have deemed public health epidemic and often times those federal dollars will come in to those situations and provide the resources and success that’s needed to stop the spread of it. Well we want the same thing for homicide, we want the federal government and those that are involved in understanding this is a public health epidemic to put those same dollars into our communities to stop the spread of homicide.”
Read the full post at philadelphia.cbslocal.com: City Council Declares Gun Violence As ‘Public Health Epidemic’