Tucson recorded a 19.5% drop in gun-related homicides last year, city officials told the Mayor and Council during a study session Tuesday, crediting early success from the Safe City Initiative’s coordinated violence prevention efforts.
Officials said the decline reflects a coordinated strategy combining community intervention, centralized investigations and hospital-based outreach aimed at interrupting cycles of violence.
Assistant City Manager Liz Morales framed the strategy as a deliberate shift away from siloed responses. “Gun violence is not inevitable,” Morales said. “Cities like ours that invest in coordinated evidence-based strategies do see results.”…