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Board of Alderman to introduce bill requiring public safety plan

The purpose of the City of St. Louis public safety plan is to define the areas of issue and create a strategy to help address issues and move the city forward.
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ST. LOUIS – President Lewis Reed will read a bill before the public safety committee of the St. Louis Board of Aldermen that would require a public safety plan to the Board of Aldermen.

According to a press release, the purpose of the City of St. Louis public safety plan is to define the areas of issue and create a strategy to help address issues and move the city forward. The plan will be a tool, which will provide data to the City of St. Louis and the Board of Aldermen with better information on the strengths and weaknesses of the city’s public safety entities.

The bill, which was introduced January, will be read Wednesday at 10 a.m.

One woman, who is truly an innocent victim of violent crime spoke to 5 On Your Side about the new proposal.

Tamara Collier was shot last September while folding laundry in her mother’s home.

The stray bullet came through the wall hitting her in the neck.

"I can't move. I didn't do anything wrong to no one. I didn't have nothing to do with whatever went on — nothing to do with it," Collier said.

She thinks the new bill could make the streets safer, but believes the true prevention starts at home.

"You've got to be involved with your children," she said. 'And I was so involved with my children. Now they see that I'm not there and they see that I'm hurt and they try to hug me. I can't even hug my children."

Collier said, she just hopes the violence can stop so her kids don’t have to grow up in an unsafe environment.

She does have another hope, for herself.

"The doctors, they try to scare me and say you'll never walk again...I'm going to walk again. You can't tell me I'm not going to walk again,” Collier said.

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