(FOX40.COM) — For the first time in recent memory, the Modesto Police Department reports zero homicides for an entire year.
Police officials call the milestone almost unheard of – especially for a city of more than 220,000 – and say it comes as other serious crimes across Modesto are also trending downward.
Modesto Police Captain Chris Adams said the department has not recorded a year without homicides in at least the past decades…