VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) — Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin is set to speak about the importance of stopping the advancement of gang violence Wednesday afternoon. He will be joining the four-day 25th Annual Gang Conference , put on by the Virginia Gang Investigators Association at The Founders Inn.
This comes about two years after Governor Youngkin’s office launched Operation Ceasefire. The initiative funds gang prevention efforts in places throughout the Commonwealth, including five Hampton Roads cities.
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The governor and Attorney General Jason Miyares boasted its success earlier in October, tying the initiative to a 30% drop in murder throughout the past year in Virginia.
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“We came together as a commonwealth. Not as a government, but as a commonwealth,” Governor Youngkin said. “We said we were going to bring down violent crime and we were going to do everything in order to do it.”