Black Lives

Nighting.

We're all we're both of the police.

The source, we start of police. The source, we start of police.

Back in 2020, in the wake of George Floyd's killing and the protests that followed,

cities and states across the country promised reforms to policing and criminal justice.

I want people to understand that we are committed to shifting resources to ensure

that the focus is on our young people.

The move joins with Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, who recently agreed to slash up to a hundred fifty

million dollars from the police budget. Emergency reform bill is really a

result of those protests it focuses on the accountability the

transparency of the DC Police Department and what

at about the same time as the pandemic continued to take its toll

rates in violent crime began to spike across the country in Austin, Atlanta, Pittsburgh, DC.

It was bad everywhere.

Jeff Asher is a crime analyst who spoke with NPR in 2021.

You know, we'll probably have the most murders this year since we had

since 1994 or 1995 and that's just tragic and then just as dramatically rates

of crime began to fall. Asher spoke with us again in February of this year.

At some point in 2022, at the end of 2022 or through 2023,

there was just a tipping point where violence started to fall and it's just continued to fall.

But regardless of what the numbers say, in many communities across the country there's fear and uncertainty as they continue to deal with violent crime.

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