Salt Lake City's leaders say their partnership with federal law enforcers and prosecutors has resulted in a drop in crime, but guns finding their way into the hands of people who shouldn't have them is still a problem.
SALT LAKE CITY — On the heels of a tragic fatal shooting of a teen girl by her brother in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, city leaders continue to encourage parents to educate their children about guns and for gun owners to properly store their weapons so they don't end up in the hands of someone who shouldn't have them.
Project Safe Neighborhoods is a nationwide initiative started about 20 years ago by the U.S. Department of Justice. The goal is to bring local and federal police and prosecutors together, to get guns and drugs off city streets.in January 2021, after experiencing a dramatic 20% jump in violent crime in 2020.
was clearly on the minds of city leaders. Police say a teen boy shot and killed his sister in their home in the 1600 West block of Wright Circle . The brother was arrested and booked into Salt Lake Juvenile Detention for investigation of murder."I cannot reiterate enough, on the heels of what we saw yesterday — a 13-year-old girl being killed, why it is so important that gun owners ensure their firearms are secure and children cannot access either the firearm or ammunition," he said.
Brown recalled an incident, years ago, when his son was in elementary school and came across a gun lying on the ground in their neighborhood. Because the boy had been taught by Brown not to touch an unsecured gun, he left it alone and told his father what he found. Brown admits he was skeptical at first about what his son had found.
And Brent Beavers, head of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives office in Denver, which oversees Utah, estimated that, in the past year, his office had seen a 500% increase in conversion devices that turn semi-auto handguns into fully automatic guns.
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