offices to work specifically with their unique communities to work to develop a customized crime reduction strategy. a study showed it reduced crime overall by 4.1%, and with case studies showing reductions of up to 42% of violent crime. we had the project safe neighborhoods national conference, as i said in my opening statement, and i can tell you that especially in our largest cities, our 29 largest cities, we are seeing a reduction in crime because of u.s. attorneys specifically working with their sheriffs and police chiefs and federal and local and state partners in reducing gun violence. some other things that we've done is the attorney general was one of the four cabinet positions that were part of the school safety commission that came out with a report in the last several months that gave a practical outline as to how states especially could work to reduce gun violence, including the idea of the erpos.