A CT city faced murders, robberies, car thefts and more. The steps it took is changing that.

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A CT city faced murders, robberies, car thefts and more. The steps it took is changing that.

Police Chief Fernando Spagnolo remembers when he first heard about a nationally recognized violence prevention model in Omaha that drastically reduced crime in the city over 15 years, cutting the number of homicides by more than half. Attending a Department of Justice violent crime reduction conference in 2023 in Indianapolis, Spagnolo and Waterbury Mayor Paul Pernerewski Jr. sought to implement a model similar to the initiative in Omaha, a coll…