do you think doesn t work when it comes to reducing the murder rate in baltimore? well, jake, i think i thank you for having me. we have to start off by understanding not only did we see 300 homicides in these years following 2015, much of my lifetime, and that s what pushed me into public service, we did something that baltimore had never done before. we created a comprehensive violence prevention plan that focused in addition to making sure that our police department was operating in a better way, making historic investments into community violence intervention, building an ecosystem, working with community groups, expanding our hospital-based violence response, making sure that we re focusing in on those who are most at risk to be the victim or perpetrator of gun violence in our city through our group violence reduction strategy where we give them options to change their life and if they don t bring the full weight of law enforcement down on them. doing all of those things is ho
Last Thursday San Francisco’s chief medical examiner released the city’s updated overdose death count 752 so far making 2023 the worst year on record for drug-related fatalities. One-third of those people were listed as having no fixed address. Later that day, a crowd gathered at Civic Center Plaza to remember more than 420 who died in the city while experiencing homelessness this year.
Several weeks after a crucial legal hurdle blocking safe consumption sites in San Francisco was seemingly resolved, proponents said they were dismayed that city leaders and public health officials were still not greenlighting centers that could reduce deaths related to drug use.
Overdose deaths have reached 620 this year on track to have the highest annual tally since counting began, with fentanyl causing the vast majority of fatalities, according to the chief medical examiner’s latest report.