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OPINION – The Stockton mass shooting that occurred over Thanksgiving weekend has shaken the crime survivor community. Hearing about children, young people, and parents who are mostly Black and Brown being killed and injured brought up a lot of pain. As a crime survivor, it took me right back to the losses I experienced in my own family.
As law enforcement continues its investigation to hold those accountable, what rarely gets addressed is the decades-long failure to build a real system of care for victims after violence…