Over the past few years, on average, three Alameda County residents are killed by a firearm every week – 12 are shot and injured. The numbers are based a new report about gun violence in Alameda County.
“Many time people think of it as a public safety issue exclusively. And so, we wanted to frame it in a way that we can look at gun violence from the public health standpoint,” says Kristen Clopton, who is the violence prevention Manager at the Alameda County Public Health Department’s Office of Violence Prevention, which authored the report…