A call for mayoral candidates to address gun violence 

Minister says ongoing plague of shootings ignored amid overall crime drop 

A PROMINENT BLACK MINISTER who was part of the clergy-police partnership in the 1990s that helped stem gun violence in Boston is calling on the five mayoral candidates to offer more specifics on plans to address violence in the city’s neighborhoods.  Rev. Eugene Rivers, a cofounder of the Boston Ten Point Coalition that worked to(...)

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