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Nashville's safety task force meets for first time, brings many leaders to the table

Nashville Mayor Freddie O'Connell is trying to bring down crime across the city by launching the Community Safety Task Force which meets for the first time Thursday. Task force co-chair Lonnell Matthews gave FOX 17 News his first interview on his team's goals. Matthews tells us he hopes to work with different neighborhood groups and even business owners to “first [evaluate] what is working in Nashville, where do we have gaps in community safety when it comes to violence reduction, and what interventions can we either bring from other places, other cities, other countries, and bring to Nashville and enforce in our communities.” Mayor O’Connell hopes the task force can compliment law enforcement by “not only focusing on solving crime but by working to reduce the situations that often lead to crime.” Matthews says his team will make recommendations to the mayor in June and hope to hit the ground running when the new fiscal year starts July 1, as they will need to carve out space for themselves in next year's budget. It's a lot of ideas now. When will we see changes? Will this team actually make a difference? “I'm hoping that in the next year we're putting together an implementation plan," Matthews tells FOX 17 News’ Johnny Maffei. "We're planning to go ask for the resources to implement whatever actions we choose to take out of the end results and recommendations that go to the Mayor." SEE MORE: https://fox17.com/news/local/nashvill... _______________ Follow! Like! Share! Subscribe! WZTV on Facebook:   / foxnashville   WZTV on X:   / foxnashville   https://fox17.com Email us: news@fox17.com Call the Newsroom: 615.369.1717 Fox 17 provides local news, weather, sports, traffic and entertainment for Nashville and nearby towns and communities in Middle Tennessee, including Forest Hills, Brentwood, Franklin, Fairview, Dickson, Clarksville, White House, Greenbrier, Springfield, Gallatin, Hartsville, Lebanon, Mt Juliet, Smyrna, College Grove, Thompson’s Station, Centerville, Murfreesboro, Columbia, Lewisburg, Shelbyville, Manchester, McMinnville, Smithville, Sparta, Cookeville, Hohenwald, Waverly, Camden, Paris, Lafayette, Portland, and in Kentucky, Russelville, Bowling Green, Franklin, Alvaton, Scottsville, Hopkinsville, Glasgow. #WZTV #fox17news #foxnashville #nashville #tennessee #tn #middletn #localnews #breakingnews #trending #nashvillecrime