My wife, Francine Milton, and I have been as resolute in our grief as we had been in memorializing Charnice.  From the moment we learned of her death, we vowed a fight on behalf of the innocents.  For the voiceless like Charnice that are killed on the streets of the inner city by gang members, we wage battle against the silence of neighbors that honor the "don't snitch" demands of the criminal tyrants and against the ideological partisanship that promotes victim-hood, fear and death.  For decades, it has seemed that the culprits have been able to get away with murder in the Nation's Capital.  In the realm of public safety, many have softened cultural stances against violent crime prosecution by falsely aligning reform arguments against non-violent reform stances.  The reasoning has been enveloped in the cause of "prison reform" in the United States.  Worse, advocates use "race" as a sincere argument against prosecuting violent crime.  However, over 85% of those on the List of Unresolved Homicides in the District of Columbia are black men.  As of this writing, the District has recorded its 140th Homicide, up 56% from last year.  The heightened march of death is felt around the City however, more expressly in the most impoverished communities East of the Anacostia River.  Wards 7 and 8 compose this area and is blighted by poverty, unemployment and violent crime.  Simply put, no one wants to risk their lives to seed businesses, build worship centers or live in places where their life, liberty and pursuits of happiness are at great risk.  Public safety is the foundation for economic renewal and cultural revitalization.  We are committed to come against all that makes our Nation's Inner Cities chaotic and unsafe.

The Open Heart / Close Case Campaign was created on August 9, 2015 under the auspices of The Anacostia Coordinating Council (ACC).  The OHCC Campaign is the Public Safety Arm of the Anacostia Coordinating Council (ACC) in Washington, DC.  It is our advocacy agency for the defenseless like Charnice Milton and the voiceless like Relisha Rudd.  We understood that when the media, the reporters, the bloggers and camera crews all go away two things remain: the need for justice and the need for closure.  Justice comes when our cultural institutions open their heart to the devastation felt by the victim’s loved ones and a responsibility to make our public safe.  Closure comes when all has been done to find and sentence the guilty, to salve the gnawing question of what happened to our loved ones and to set in place obstacles from such occurrences repeating.  Our Campaign has yielded much fruit in the first 120 days.