Oakland Is Slowly Solving America’s Rising Gun Violence Trend – HuffPost

Oakland Is Slowly Solving America’s Rising Gun Violence Trend HuffPost

As major cities throughout the United States have struggled to deal with rising gun violence over the years, one community in California is seeing a reversal of the trend in its own backyard. Oakland has cut its annual homicides and nonfatal shootings by nearly half since 2012, a huge drop for what used to be considered one of the more violent cities in the U.S., according to a new report by the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence. The reduction is no random miracle but rather an overwhelming effort made by the entire Oakland community to address some of America’s daily gun violence…

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