‘A slap in the face’: crime rise warnings ignore years of work by local organizers

Unlike in previous decades, there are many successful US gun violence prevention groups with a record of saving lives

The last time homicide rates in Tinisch Hollins' home town of San Francisco surged, she had few places to turn for support beside the police.

Homicide rates in the city hit triple digits in the mid-2000s. And at the time, Hollins said, resources for community organizers like herself who were advocating for crime survivors were far and few.