The city of Indianapolis had its most violent year ever last year, with 249 criminal homicides, and this year it's getting $15 million from the federal government to help fight the violence, the Indianapolis Star reports.
The money will go to local grassroots groups working on violence prevention and reduction, and the city has committed $45 million over the next three years to the same cause.
"We wanted to elevate and uplift the aspirations and dreams and goals of neighborhoods and not just the deficiencies and challenges," the director of community leadership at the Indianapolis Foundation tells the Star. "But would sacrifice something to be able to stop what's going on in our city."
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