Westchester to launch forum on curbing school violence
Photo credit: Xavier Mascarenas | Anthony DiNunzio, right, with the family-owned RT Smoke N Gun Shop in Mount Vernon, shows a handgun to customer Frank Giuliani of New Rochelle. (Dec. 18, 2012)
Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino is calling on local educators and police to attend a Feb. 27 symposium on preventing school violence that will feature Bill Bratton, the nationally renowned crime fighter who has served as police commissioner of Los Angeles, New York and Boston.
The symposium will kick off the Republican county executive's new Safer Communities initiative, an attempt...
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