Denver experienced a 20% drop in the number of children and teenagers wounded in shootings in 2023 compared to 2022, and a 47% year-over-year decline in youth homicide victims.
Nancy Velin sits with a photo printout of her son’s obituary notice at her home in Aurora, Colorado, on March 4, 2024. Velin’s 15-year-old son Raphael was fatally shot Sept. 30, 2023, in the parking lot of Southlands shopping center in Aurora. Three months after Raphael Velin was shot to death in Aurora, his friends stopped by his home to celebrate what would have been his 16th birthday.
In Denver, 84 people were killed across the city, down from 88 in 2022, 96 in 2021, and 95 in 2020 — but still much higher than the 63 people killed in 2019, according to newly finalized data released by the Some 14 cities across the U.S. saw larger year-over-year declines in homicides, ranging from a 32% drop in Rochester, New York, to a 16% decline in Detroit, according toby the Council on Criminal Justice, a national think tank focused on criminal justice. Another seven cities they examined saw homicides rise in 2023.
He said police officers have bumped up the priority level for calls about disturbances at house parties as they’ve recognized the potential for violence at such events. Across 47 homicides in which police identified the relationship between the suspect and victim, 64% of victims were killed by someone they knew, a family member or an intimate partner. Another 36% were killed by strangers, according to the data provided by police.The most common reasons for homicides were arguments or confrontations that escalated into violence, said major crimes Cmdr. Matt Clark.
Denver police have solved about 80% of 2023’s homicides, Clark said, noting that includes cases in which suspects were arrested and charged as well as cases in which the suspect was identified but not charged for various reasons, like a valid self-defense claim. In Aurora, five children younger than 17 were killed in 2023, the same number as those who were killed in 2022 and up from one in 2020, according to statistics provided by the police department.Office of Children’s Affairs,The Office of Children’s Affairs did secure $7.3 million in federal money from the American Rescue Plan Act, which it gave out to community organizations through grants and contracts. The federal money kicked in at the start of 2023 and will run out by the end of 2024.
“We’re not necessarily taking a pause, but we are re-evaluating what has the highest impact,” she said. “We recognize there is great value in partnering with members of the community because they often have some of the answers,” Thomas said. “They are able to provide some of the deterrence mechanisms and some of the pro-social activities that can draw people away from violence.”
“Until we really start to help them deal with some of those things and give them those tools to be able to discuss and handle things and think first, then we are going to continue to see these spikes and it is going to be even worse,” McBride said. “And you are going to start to see younger and younger kids getting caught up in the system.”
“Six, seven years ago, it was 16, 17, and then we fell to 14, 15, and now we’re at 12, 13 and 14 who are out here,” McBride said. “And they’re the kids who are at the most risk.” The 15-year-old was shot to death outside the Southlands shopping center after going there “to conduct some business,” then-police Chief Art AcevedoNancy Velin hopes the court process will bring justice for her son. She hasn’t touched his bedroom since he died. Everything is the same as it was before, except now they keep his ashes there. She goes to his bedroom to talk to him, to pray.
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