Lefties like to present this narrative! What about tougher law enforcement and sentencing?
Is gun violence "contagious" or like a "sexually transmitted infection"? I beg to differ!
How much of this reduction was actually due to shutting down a "ghost gun manufacturer and distributor"?
"Baltimore recorded 133 homicides in 2025—a nearly 60% decline since 2021 and its lowest homicide rate per capita in 50 years. While homicides have fallen nationwide, Baltimore’s decline began earlier and is steeper than in other U.S. cities.
A major factor is the city’s shift toward treating gun violence as a public health problem, pairing targeted law enforcement with community-based prevention and intensive support for people at highest risk.
Mayor Brandon Scott’s Group Violence Reduction Strategy identifies people at elevated risk due to recent victimization, proximity to shootings, and social networks. Community organizations then connect them with resources such as housing, employment, transportation, and treatment that can help reduce the conditions driving violence.
Programs including Roca, Safe Streets, and YAP (Youth Advocate Programs) also rely on trusted community members to mediate conflicts. ..."
"... Baltimore also won the largest verdict in history—$62 million—against a top ghost-gun manufacturer and distributor, leading the manufacturer to go out of business. ...
“Gun violence often acts analogous to a contagious process. We think of it as a social contagion,” says Daniel Webster, ScD ’91, MPH, a distinguished scholar at the Bloomberg School’s Center for Gun Violence Solutions. Just as measles or sexually transmitted infections spread through social networks, so does gun violence. And shootings don’t just affect shooters and victims—they ricochet through communities. Arrest and incarceration, too, can metastasize [???]. Funneling [???] people into the criminal justice system cuts off their options. Many of the people at risk of gun violence also live in neighborhoods that have long been neglected. “We think of gun violence as both a cause and consequence of health,” said Carla Tilchin, PhD ’24, MSPH ’17, assistant scientist at the Center. ..."
A Contagious Peace: Behind Baltimore’s Historic Homicide Reduction "Baltimore cut its homicide rate by 60% from 2021 to 2025—largely through a public health approach to gun violence."
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