Indianapolis’ Director of Community Violence Reduction has been on the job for over a year now. WFYI’s Jill Sheridan sat down with Shonna Majors to talk about her priorities for 2020, some of the major challenges the city faces in violence reduction efforts and where she thinks she’s been able to gain traction.
January 21, 2020
What's Happening With Indy's Violence Reduction Efforts
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