Buffalo’s gun violence numbers are moving downward, as in the case of several cities, despite the Trump administration’s insistence otherwise. But sustaining that positive downward momentum requires leadership and coordination. That is where Adrienne Garr, Buffalo’s first executive director of the newly created Office of Gun Violence Prevention comes in.

Garr’s introduction as the director at a City Hall press conference recently should not go unnoticed. Her new role is critical in keeping the streets safe. It might also help keeping at bay the National Guard presence that has been foisted upon cities like Los Angeles, Washington, D.C. and Portland. None of these cities have been immune to gun violence, and all experienced dramatic rises in such crimes during the pandemic. But just as ot

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