Oakland City Council held a meeting Tuesday evening to discuss an audit report of an abandoned city program that helped lower gun violence and is now being reinstated. The program, called Ceasefire, was implemented in 2012. During the years that followed, it was credited for a 42% drop in murders in the city, from 2012 to 2017. In 2020, however, it was disbanded after the COVID-19 pandemic began, and homicides started to rise.

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