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California's child homicide rate dropped 50% from 2011-20 and is down 70% from three decades earlier. Many experts credit safe surrender laws that came online in the state around 2001.
The stunning climb in homicide rates in recent years in California and big cities across the nation obscures a remarkably good-news trend involving young children: The number of child homicide victims fell dramatically in California over the past decade, the latest death certificate data shows, a pattern mirrored to a lesser extent nationwide. In 1991, […]
The stunning climb in homicide rates in recent years in California and big cities across the nation obscures a remarkably good-news trend involving young children: The number of child homicide victims fell dramatically in California over the past decade, the latest death certificate data shows, a pattern mirrored to a lesser extent nationwide.
Better access to family planning services, and more 'safe surrender' sites, may have reduced deaths and abandonments of infants, experts say.
The state’s child homicide rate dropped about 50% from 2011 to 2020 and is down about 70% from three decades earlier.