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An innovative gun violence reduction program
has helped to drastically reduce firearms deaths over several years in one northern California city and has saved taxpayers millions of dollars, a new study from the University of California, Berkeley, has found.
The study focuses on the successes of Advance Peace, a violence prevention program that employs formerly incarcerated residents to build relationships with the small number of people responsible for and most affected by gun violence.
The program is active in several northern California cities and similar models are used across the country, but in Stockton, a small city north of San Francisco that in 2012 ranked the tenth most dangerous in America, the program has contributed to a 20% drop in gun homicides and assaults since its launch in 2018, the researchers found. The program saved the city between $42.3m and $110m in two years, according to the study, while costing less than $900,0
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