RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina’s Gang Prevention and Intervention Task Force met Tuesday in Raleigh for a public meeting focused on prevention, intervention, enforcement coordination and community-based approaches to reducing gang activity.
The meeting was held at the Governor’s Crime Commission offices and streamed online, according to the North Carolina Department of Public Safety. The task force is co-chaired by Leslie Cooley Dismukes, secretary of the Department of Adult Correction, and Siarra Scott, director of the NCDPS Office of Violence Prevention.
The agenda included work group updates on prevention, intervention and enforcement, along with presentations on workforce development, juvenile justice prevention councils and the Wilson Police Athletic/Activities League…