Denver Officials Tout Federal Anti-Gang Grants
Kirk Siegler (KUNC) | November 11, 2010
DENVER, CO – More than $2 million is headed to Denver from the federal government to fight gang problems and gang-related violence. The city is one of only four in the country to receive the grant money.
The federal funds have been awarded to Denver’s GRID, or Gang Reduction Initiative which aims to squash out gang-related violence in some of the city’s toughest neighborhoods. The grant money will be doled out from Denver’s Safe City Office; which was first created following the summer of 1993; when the city saw a huge spike in murders and gang-related crime. The office has been targeting its prevention programs in neighborhoods in northeast and southwest Denver.
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