Chattanooga goes more than 60 days without a homicide [timesfreepress.com]

Alicia Doktor 10/30/174:00 AM

Despite a string of uncommonly violent months earlier in 2017, Chattanooga has now gone more than 60 days without a homicide.

It's impossible to predict how much longer the stretch will continue, but such a respite has been rare in recent years — since 2013, Chattanooga has gone through only eight periods of 30 or more days without a homicide.

Authorities with the Chattanooga Police Department hope the streak is a sign that the tide of violence is beginning to recede a little, and they attributed it to a number of initiatives that are paying dividends.

[For more on this story by Emmett Gienapp, go to http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/local/story/2017/oct/28/chattanooggoes-more-60-days-without-homicide/455724/ ]

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