 Philadelphia has made unprecedented investments in public safety and major crime has declined by approximately 16 percent since 2000.
Our City has not been immune to a national increase in gun violence, however. Homicides are up in cities and towns across the country. In Philadelphia, we have responded with Operation Safer Streets, a comprehensive violence reduction and prevention strategy.
Operation Safer Streets is a four-pronged approach to preventing and reducing violent crime that will employ smarter, targeted policing to flood “hot spots” with officers, gun reduction efforts to get guns off our streets; increased community engagement to prevent violence and share information, and violence prevention efforts through increased social service services. Its four main components are Smarter Policing, Gun Reduction, Violence Prevention and Community Involvement.
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