LOUISVILLE, Ky. —

Louisville is taking another step in the fight against gun violence, selecting Joshua Crawford to lead the Group Violence Intervention program — a key pillar of the mayor’s Safe Louisville plan targeting the small number of groups driving most of the city’s shootings.

“The level of violence in this city is unacceptable, and it is changing, and it will stop,” Crawford said in an interview.

He described his role as strategy and coordination, aligning law enforcement and community partners to concentrate on the people at highest risk.

“We hyper focus on the gangs and groups driving violence in the city and utilize multiple levers,” he said.

With youth violence on the rise, Crawford emphasized GVI’s balanced approach:

“Everything from the community moral voice to the of

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