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Our next guest is from Chattanooga and although she’s not making headlines around the world trying to broker peace between Ukraine and Russia in that ongoing war,  she is making a name for herself in one of that country’s war-torn cities that sits about 20 miles from the Russian border. Welcome peace maker Deborah levine who wrote a recent article in the Chattanooga times free press called light in the dark.

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This week the trial is underway in Texas against a police officer who responded to the 2022 shooting at an elementary school that killed 19 students and two teachers. It happened at Uvalde school. on trial Adrian Gonzales, an officer with the school district police force, who Prosecutors allege failed to locate, engage or delay the gunman when he arrived at the school.

WELCOME TO THE SHOW Dr. Rick Dierenfeldt, the head of the Department of Criminal Justice at UTC WHO ALMOST A YEAR AGO STARTED the Violence Reduction Initiative ON CAMPUS—a research center he spearheaded to address violent crime