Route Fifty: There were 26 murders in Aurora, Illinois in 2002. Ten years later, when the city had zero murders for the first time in six decades, it made national news, focused on how the second-largest city in Illinois had seen such a sharp decline in killings.
Clayton Muhammad, the Chicago suburb’s chief communications officer, credits the transformation to the sustained engagement of neighborhood organizing groups with the police, the success of youth programs meant to deter kids from joining gangs, and the implementation of community policing.
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