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Mayor Bowser met with DC neighborhood representatives to discuss problems in the community including youth gun violence.

A broad conversation about the state of crime in D.C. was held on Saturday with public safety and Advisory Neighborhood Commission leaders from across the District.

Mayor Muriel Bowser, Police Chief Robert Contee and ANC commissioners from all over the city had a two-hour meeting Saturday about to gun violence.

Spates of deadly violence impacted several U.S. cities to start 2023, outpacing the first days of the previous year.

Erinn Broadus And Trevor Schakohl on January 20, 2023 Several U.S. cities were affected by deadly violence this year, outpacing the same period in 2022.

By Erinn Broadus And Trevor Schakohl Daily Caller News Foundation Spates of deadly violence impacted several U.S. cities to start 2023, outpacing the same period in 2022, and experts variously called for proper police funding, community trust-building efforts and investment in at-risk youth in response. Jacksonville, New Orleans, Minneapolis, the Las Vegas area, Washington, D.C.…

D.C. Police Chief Robert Contee says that the number of youth introduced into the criminal justice system with firearm crimes as a first offense is going up, and that access to illegal guns is to blame.

The Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, D.C.

Despite recent crime spikes, decarceration advocates are unrepentant.

With youth violence on the minds of many in the District, organizers put on an event Saturday to focus on ways to combat that violence, held in honor of Dr....