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Families of Philadelphia homicide victims often face the traumatizing and expensive task of cleaning up the crime scene

The police department is responsible for processing and collecting evidence at thousands of crime scenes where a gun was involved each year. But cops aren’t responsible for cleaning it up.

Renee Norris-Jones, herself a survivor of partner violence, is still traumatized from unknowingly walking into a crime scene in 1999, the site of where her sister was murdered.
Renee Norris-Jones, herself a survivor of partner violence, is still traumatized from unknowingly walking into a crime scene in 1999, the site of where her sister was murdered.Read moreMONICA HERNDON / Staff Photographer
    by Anna Orso
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