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Fredrick “Geno” Womack didn’t need to see the data to know that Jackson’s homicides had fallen.
Gone are the nightmarish days of 2020, when Womack, the executive director of Operation Good, said he could step outside his nonprofit’s south Jackson headquarters and smell the metallic scent of crystal meth in the air. It’s been years, he said, since he has seen an armed man roaming the sidewalks of McDowell Road.
A violence interrupter, Womack said he and his colleagues are encountering less conflict to moderate. They’re seeing more disputes end in social media posts than gunshots…