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                    "Editor\u2019s note: Do you want answers to questions about the Golden Triangle? Each week, Dispatch reporters set out to explain or update a timely, practical issue. Email your question to [email\u00a0protected]\nLowndes County District 5 Supervisor Leroy Brooks hopes to bring enough officials and residents on board to revive a crime prevention task force in the city.\nDuring a Lowndes County supervisors meeting Aug. 17, Brooks said the idea was motivated by recent shootings, particularly one in which a juvenile was shot. He, along with Lowndes County Sheriff Eddie Hawkins, addressed the city council the following day.\n\u201cNobody said anything. That\u2019s kind of what happens in this community: people get shot all the time, and nobody says anything,\u201d Brooks said. \u201cYou can\u2019t have that kind of apathy in your community if you plan to make a change.\u201d\nThe new task force would seek to build on findings of a similar task force commissioned in 2021 by then-Mayor Robert Smith or at least use recommendations made then as a starting point, Brooks said.\nBut what happened to the last task force? What about the report it created? How would a new task force function?\nWhat happened to the last task force?\nThe last task force, which met for the first time in January 2021, consisted of four subcommittees tasked with offering recommendations on ways to reduce crime in the areas of law enforcement enhancement, education, community revitalization and recreation/youth development.\nWhile the larger task force met monthly, subcommittees met as needed in between to develop long term and short term goals addressing issues within each area.\n\u201cThe interesting thing about that task force is that you had lay people and you had professional people,\u201d Brooks said, listing members ranging from local businessmen to city, county and school district officials. \u201c\u2026 You had a litany of stakeholders involved along with lay people.\u201d\nNearly a year after the task force\u2019s first meeting, Brooks presented its report to the mayor and city council in November 2021, but with a new city administration in office, he said progress on implementing any recommendations ultimately stalled.\n\u201cI kept all that information,\u201d Brooks told The Dispatch on Thursday. \u201cSo (now) I\u2019m saying, let\u2019s look at some of the things we recommended. Some of them have been accomplished. It may be a good place to start, or we may just want to throw it in the trash can and start completely new.\u201d\nWhat was in the 2022 report?\nBrooks said a large part of the report made what he calls \u201cinstitutional recommendations,\u201d or suggestions aimed at agencies and institutions. Among those recommendations, the report set a goal of reducing crime by 25% annually.\nTo do so, it recommended greater recruitment and retention strategies for the police department and suggested stronger collaboration between Columbus Police Department and Lowndes County Sheriff\u2019s Office.\nAlong with greater cooperation, the report said Columbus police needed technology upgrades to improve enforcement and prevention. It also included an anonymous survey of CPD officers addressing topics ranging from crime causes to department needs and morale.\nThe report aimed to address underlying causes of crimes with community revitalization-related recommendations, like taking a more aggressive approach to abating blight, forming organizations to keep neighborhoods clean and improving city parks.\nWhat about a new task force?\nWithin two weeks, Brooks said he\u2019d like to have invitations sent to different city and county officials, requesting their participation in the task force and encouraging them to invite other interested stakeholders. Later, he plans to open the invitation to volunteers from the community.\nThe goal is to garner community support for the initiative because \u201cit doesn\u2019t matter how great\u201d law enforcement is in the city without support from residents, Brooks said.\n\u201cA community-type prevention task force means that (neither) the city nor the county is in charge,\u201d Brooks said. \u201cYou\u2019re not looking to appoint people.\u201d\nPolice Chief Garland Ward told The Dispatch he still needs to read the report, as it was commissioned before he started working in Columbus. But he said he sees the need for the task force and wouldn\u2019t have a problem with one.\nMayor Stephen Jones showed support for the idea but ultimately said it would be up to Ward and Sheriff Eddie Hawkins to pull together.\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\tStephen Jones\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\n\u201cI\u2019m open to anything,\u201d Jones said. \u201cAnything that\u2019s going to benefit us working together equally, then I\u2019m for it.\u201d\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\tMcRae is a general assignment and education reporter for The Dispatch.\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n      \n      \n        Quality, in-depth journalism is essential to a healthy community. The Dispatch brings you the most complete reporting and insightful commentary in the Golden Triangle, but we need your help to continue our efforts. In the past week, our reporters have posted 37 articles to cdispatch.com. 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