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SCALA forms public safety committee

Tuesday, a controversial group of 70 business, religious and education leaders announced their own plan.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WHAS11) – How does the city solve its violence problem?

It’s a question many have tried to answer.

Tuesday, a controversial group of 70 business, religious and education leaders announced their own plan.

The group, known as SCALA, has created its own public safety committee – Louisville Organizations Against the Violence, or LOVE, uses a strategy looking at violence as a contagious disease.

Their Cure Violence initiative focuses on 6 pillars like enforcement, intervention and prevention.

“We know that these types of models that are based on public health approach, work. We know that it has a strong return of investment. We know it can transform communities,” Rashaad Abdur-Rahman, Safe and Healthy Neighborhoods, said.

The LOVE committee says that they will continue to have discussions until all of the violence issues have been addressed in the city.

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