As the homicide rate ticks up, with 184 people killed in Baltimore to date, community organizations are gearing up find solutions to the problems themselves.

Act Now Baltimore, the faith-based organization rooted in bringing accountability, transparency and credibility to City Hall, plans to hold a town hall on July 26 to hear directly from the people about ways to stop the bloodshed.

“We’re going into seven years with 300-plus murders. Don’t tell me things are getting better,” Bishop Angel Nunez said, vice-chair of Act Now Baltimore. “The hour has come where we will come together as we put aside our difference and seek to transform our city. Our people will not die any longer.”

Rev. Al Hathaway, chair of the organization, said the group will get the ideas from the people and then present it to Baltimore Police Commissioner Michael Harrison, Mayor Brandon Scott and the federal judge overseeing Baltimore’s consent decree.

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