AG Jay Jones meets Roanoke public safety officials, addresses violent crime decrease

AG Jay Jones meets Roanoke public safety officials, addresses violent crime decrease

Virginia Attorney General Jay Jones met with Roanoke-area public safety officials Monday to discuss efforts to prevent crime and reduce gun violence.

Jay Jones Roanoke Public Safety Roundtable: Gun Violence Numbers Explained

Virginia Attorney General Jay Jones spent Monday in Roanoke at a public-safety roundtable with the people who handle the city’s violent crime day to day: Police Chief Scott Booth, Roanoke City Sheriff Antonio Hash, Roanoke County Sheriff Eric Orange, and a group of local law enforcement and community leaders. The subject was what the city has got right, and what it cannot pay for. The numbers behind the meeting Roanoke recorded 31 shooting death…

AG Jones makes stop in Roanoke for a discussion on public safety, reducing gun violence

AG Jay Jones (at center) Virginia attorney general Jay Jones was in Roanoke today, holding a “Public Safety Roundtable,” with local law enforcement agencies, Roanoke City officials and private organizations, with a focus on reducing gun violence and intervention programs that help young people avoid that path forward – and incarceration.  Jones also visited Carilion Clinic’s Violent Injury recovery and support program, to learn how the hospital-…