That is precisely what happened in Rhode Island, was this public investment led to a great public-private partnership and a substantial leverage of that investment which I think is helping in other places around the country.
Editor's note · Context
Cicilline highlights the success of public investment in Rhode Island fostering partnerships and benefits elsewhere.
Share
More from David Cicilline
If my Republican colleagues were serious about violent crime and sincere in their efforts to law enforcement, they would have joined us in that effort.
Here in New York, one of the largest and most complex cities in the world, local leaders have pursued violence intervention, diversion programs, targeted law enforcement and youth engagement programs that have pushed crime and…
There is massive gun trafficking that ferries guns from those five Southern States with weak gun laws up I-95 to States like New York, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and Massachusetts.
If someone is a victim of a gun crime in New York City, dollars to doughnuts that gun was not originally purchased in New York State.





