The ‘root cause’ of shootings in D.C.? Think guns and those pulling the trigger.

And in touting his own budget initiatives, Allen in 2020 announced his work to reinvest funding from the Metropolitan Police Department “in programs that get at root causes of violent crime, including violence interruption, school-based mental health, a new domestic violence shelter, housing for returning citizens, job training for transgender/non-gendered/non-binary youth, emergency rental funds to prevent evictions, and more.”