California Sees Dramatic Decline in Child Homicide Victims. What’s Changed? [californiahealthline.org]
By Phillip Reese, Image: Screenshot from article, California Healthline, April 11, 2022 The stunning climb in homicide rates in recent years in California and big cities across the nation obscures a remarkably good-news trend involving young children: The number of child homicide victims fell dramatically in California over the past decade, the latest death certificate data shows, a pattern mirrored to a lesser extent nationwide. In 1991, California’s coroners officially classified 133...