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Councilmember Scotty Johnson and Vice Mayor Jan-Michele Lemon Kearney asked for Cincinnati Council to release the $275,000 allocated for the Advance Peace Program, a gun violence reduction program that has reduced gun violence in cities across the country.
Kearney said, “While Cincinnati has seen a decrease in shootings, we are not experiencing a downward trend in gun homicides. We had 63 gun homicides in 2023 and 63 gun homicides in 2024. This year, there has been an increase in gun homicides among juveniles.”…