Our Work The Love Not Blood Campaign works to build a broad-based and vibrant Network of Families impacted by police murder. Losing a loved one through police murder is one of the most horrifying experiences that a family can face; it is trauma that no one can prepare for in advance. Police violence leaves in its wake tremendous emotional pain and upheaval. It is important to recognize that, no matter how supportive or compassionate the victim/witness assistance coordinators may be, survivors often find it helpful to obtain additional support and advocacy services from our Family Crisis Team. All victims of police violence recognize the importance of additional mental health and advocacy services. LNBC utilizes multiple approaches in its efforts to promote a healthy Family support-based discourse to bring about real and sustainable positive recovery. LNBC Family Crisis Team focus is placed on supporting the capacity of parents, families, children, and community members utilizing the support group framework of those impacted by this violence to advocate for and strengthen their ability to work collectively to achieve their goals. LNBC offers a practical and achievable way for families and grassroots organizations to collaborate and achieve synergies, otherwise not possible, as illustrated by its on-going Family Crisis Team support groups, – LNBC have trained advocates who can accompany impacted families to hearings, trial proceedings, meetings with the coroner, etc., providing emotional support and information about the process. Through participation in support groups, many police victim’s families have found that others who have been through the same experience have also had similar reactions. They find that they have permission to openly express the pain of their loss, speak the unspeakable, and finally reveal “revenge fantasies” — which are a normal reaction to violent victimizations. For these reasons, support groups can be very “normalizing” for families and friends of victims, allowing them to feel that they are not going crazy and that others are experiencing and surviving the same depth, complexity, and confusion of emotions. The support group setting also permits impacted family members who are further along in their healing to give hope to those who are newly bereaved or who are having an especially difficult time. Through providing and receiving support, impacted families are able to help each other and to see that some good is able to come out of the pain that they have experienced. This is because many of the painful feelings have been brought to the surface. What they have found is that there is no way to get through the grief except to just go through it, however difficult it may be. As difficult as this may be at the time, many survivors state that this process ultimately helps them to progress through the grieving process. On January 1st, 2010, Uncle Bobby, Uncle of Oscar Grant coordinated the First impacted families of police violence support group.