![]() ![]() "Some boys just came and shot while me and my baby was in the back. Just yesterday, I saw it behind my house," Sims says, as the sounds of firecrackers - not guns - filled the air. ![]() That reality makes the news of an overall drop in the crime rate irrelevant. ![]() Shauntavius Sims, 35, lives in a Chicago neighborhood that has been plagued by gun violence. In some cities, there's a troubling rise compared with last year. That wasn't true of homicides and shootings though. Violent crimes such as aggravated assaults and robberies also fell substantially. Baltimore, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., and Chicago all have witnessed a drop of more than 30%.
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