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Community Violence
Experts say deployments like Operation Legend often bring a rise in excessive enforcement.
Philadelphia
City officials credit multiple factors for the historic declines in shootings, homicides, and other firearm-related crimes.
The Gun Lobby
And the cop-turned-pastor at the center of it all.
A Decade of American Gun Violence
A Trace series challenges what many people might think about gun violence in America. Here are the highlights.
These are the methods we used to determine how many people might have lived if gun violence didn't spike during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Business of Guns
The agency’s recommendation comes less than a year after an investigation by The Trace found that thousands of used police guns were involved in crimes.
In a new analysis, The Trace figured out the number of people who might have lived if gun violence had remained at its 2019 level.
The Trajectory
Experts and physicians in maternal health explain the evolving crisis behind pregnancy-related homicides, and why it’s preventable.
Throughout 2024, I felt good about the steady decline of shootings in my home city of Philadelphia. That changed exactly 12 days before Christmas, when one of the most dangerous weekends of the year reminded me that gun violence remains an epidemic.
Data
As firearm sales have fallen, so have deaths and mass shootings. Trace reporter Chip Brownlee breaks down this year’s gun violence trends.