-- AND THE PEOPLE LEFT BEHIND. ♪ SOLEDAD: I바카라 게임 웹사이트�M SOLEDAD O바카라 게임 웹사이트�BRIEN. WELCOME TO "MATTER OF FACT." YOU바카라 게임 웹사이트�VE SEEN THE HEADLINES -- A NATIONAL INCREASE IN VIOLENT CRIME. THEY GRAB OUR ATTENTN,IO BUT OFTEN FAIL TO PROVIDE A CLEAR PICTURE OF WH바카라 게임 웹사이트�T'S HAPPENING. LAST YEAR, JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI RECORDED 155 MURDERS. ALMOST ALL INVOLVED GUNS. IT바카라 게임 웹사이트�S EASY TO LABEL A PLACE FOR ITS PROB.LEMS JACKSON바카라 게임 웹사이트�S POPULATION IS ABOUT 150,0.00 THE CITY IS 82% BLACK WITH A POVERTY RATE OF 25%, AND THE HIGHEST PER CAPITA MURDER RATE IN THE COUNTRY. T BUE PEOPLE THERE KNOW IT GOES BEYOND STATISTICS. IT바카라 게임 웹사이트�S ABOUT THE IMMENSE CHALLENGES FOR A TOWN. OUR CORRESPONDENT JESSICA GOMEZ TRAVELED TO CKJASON TO SEE HOW THE POLICE AND THE COMMUNITY ARE WORKING ON A SOLUTION. JESSICA: THE LATE SHIFFOT 33-YEAR-OLD JACKSON POLICE SERGEANT CHRISTIAN VANCE. >> I HAVE A LOT OF YOUNG PEOE,PL AND I SAY YOUNG, I MEAN 16, 17, 18 YEARS OLD DOING VIOLENT THINGS ON A REGULAR BASI JESSICA: IT DIDN'T바카라 게임 웹사이트�TAKE LONG FOR THE FIRST CALL TO COME IN. SHOTS FIRED. THIS TIME, A DOMESTIC DISPE,UT SOMETHING SERGEANT VANCE SAYS HAS SKYROCKETED SINCE THE PANDEM.IC SO TOO HAVE HOMICIDES, A RECORD NUMBER OF PEOPLE KILLED IN JACKSON LAST YR.EA >> OUR JOB IS TO STOP IT BEFORE POLICERE A INVOLVED. JESSICA: NEARBY, IRA HENRY PATROLLING THE STREETS, BUT WITH NO BGEAD. HE IS PART OF THE NEW NONPROFIT, OPERATION GOOD. THEY ARE VIOLENCE INTERRUPTERS, MANY OF WHOM HAVE SEEDRV TIME AND TURNED THEIR LIVES AROUND. WITHIN MINUTES HERE TOO, THE SOUNDS OF GUNFIRE. IT WOULD HAPPEN SEVERAL MORE TIMES THAT AFTERNOON. >> GOING TO THE SCENE, GOINGO T THE SCENE. WHEN THE SIREN GSOE OFF 3, 4, FIVE MINUTES FROM NOW, YOU KNOW SOMEONE HAS BEEN SHOT. JESSA:IC THEY WORKED TO BUILD RELATIONSHIPS, DE-ESCALATING BEFORE THINGS TURN DEADLY. >> BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS WITH THE CITIZENS, THE WAY IT OUSHLD BE. IF YOU HAVE A RELATIONSHIP WITH THE COMMUNITY, IT STOPA S LOT OF MISUNDERSTANDINGS. JESSICA: OPERATI GONOOD A WELCOME SIGHT, FOR THEOS LIKE VERA HARRIS. >> I USED TO WALK AROUND THIS BLOCK, GOAE MIL AND GO BACK AROUND. JESSICA: HER YARD, RIDDLED WITH BULLETS AND CASINGS. >> THE SOUND OF THE GUN AND THE MAKE OF THE GUN -- [GUNSHOTS] JESSICA: WE JUST HEARD SOMETHING. >> UH-HUH. JESSICA: YOU DIDN바카라 게임 웹사이트�T FLINCH? >> 바카라 게임 웹사이트�CAUSE I AM USED TO IT. JESSICA: THE CITY OF JACKSON. MISSISSIPPI바카라 게임 웹사이트�S STATE CAPITOL AND A PLACE, SOME SAY, IS IN CSIRIS. >> THAT HEADLINE, DOEITSN바카라 게임 웹사이트�T TELL THE WHOLE STORY ABOUT OUR CITY. JESSICA: POLICE CHIEF JAMES DAVIS SAYS THE MAJORITY, MORE THAN 80% OF LAST YEAR바카라 게임 웹사이트�S HOMICIS DEWERE NOT RANDOM, BUT INTERPERSONAL CONFLICTS. THE PANDEMIC WIDENING THE CRACKS IN JACKSON바카라 게임 웹사이트�S FRAGILE SOCIAL FOUNDATION, WHERE NEARLY A QUARTER OF THE POPULATION LIVE IN POVERTY AND MENTAL ILLNESS AND ADDICTION OFTEN GO UNTREATED. >> THERE IS A MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS THAT IT TAKES ALL HANDS-ON DECK TO ADDRESS THOSE NEEDS IN A BROKEN COMMUNY.IT JESSICA:HE T JACKSON POLICE DEPARTMENT, LIKE MANY AROUND THE COUNTRY, IS UNDERSTAFFED. SHORT 88 OFFICERS IN A DEPARTMENT THAT SHOULD ABOUT MORE THAN 350 STRONG. >> SO HELP ME GOD. JESSICA: A PUSH FOR VIRTUAL POLICING, THE CHIEF SAYS, HAS BEEN EFFECTIVE -- CAMERAS WHERE POLICE CAN바카라 게임 웹사이트�T BE -- BUT THERE AREN바카라 게임 웹사이트�T ENOUGH FOR THE GROWING NUMBER OF HIGH CRIME NEIGHBORHOODS. >> WE CAN바카라 게임 웹사이트�T JUST INVEST IN LAW ENFORCEMENT, WE CAN바카라 게임 웹사이트�T DO THAT -- WE ARE NOT GOING TO SEE THE RESULTS WE NEED. JESSICA: RUKIA LUMUMBA RUNS THE UMBRELLA GROUP FOR OPERATION GOOD AND OTHER COMMUNITY-BASED ORGANIZATIONS. SHE SAYS THE CITY HASN바카라 게임 웹사이트�T PRIORITIZED FUNDING FOR NEIGHBORHOOD-LED INTERVENTION EFFORTS. >> IF WE ALL WE바카라 게임 웹사이트�RE DOING ON ONE END IS LOCKING UP PEOPLE AND NOT DOING ANYTHING ON THE OTHER END TO ACTUALLY CREATE A BETTER WAY OF LIVING FOR FOLKS, THEN WE ARE FAILG.IN JESSICA: LUMUMBA SAYS EFFORTS LIKE OPERATION GOOD ARE WORKING. WITH PRIVATE DONATIONS, ITSIN FIRST 9 MONTHS, THE GROUP TARGETED A 45 BLOCK AREA. THE RESULT, WHICH JACKSON POCELI CONFIRM? MORE THAN 200 DAYS WITH NO HOMICIDES. >> YOU KW,NO IT MOTIVATES ME TO GO ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER YEAR. JESSICA: MOTIVATION, IRA HENRY SAYS, TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE, ESPECIALLY FOR THE NEXT GENERATION. >> THEY FEEL COMFORTABLE, THEY KNOW THEIR BUSINESS IS NOT GONNA BE ALL OVER THE STREET, NOT GOING TO BE TALKED ABOUT, NOT CALLED A SNITCH BECAUSE WE바카라 게임 웹사이트�RE NOT POLICE. >> PUT YOUR HAND BEHIND YOUR BACK, HAND BEHIND YOUR BACK, DOG. JESSICA: MEANTIME, AS AFTERNOON TURNS INTO EVENING, SERGANT VANCE SAYS HE CAN USE ALL THE HELP HE CAN T.GE >> WE HAVE A GROUP OF KIDS GROWING UP THINKING THAT'바카라 게임 웹사이트� THAT바카라 게임 웹사이트�S NORMAL. WE NEED TO LET THEM KNOW, THIS IS NOT A NORMAL WAY TO BE, TO LIVE, IT바카라 게임 웹사이트�S UNACCEPTABLE. >> YOU SEE HOW I DID THAT? >> THERE IS NOTHING MORE IMPORTANT THAN THESE KIDS. SO IF WE FOCUS ON THEM, AND KEEP ON PRESSING AND DON바카라 게임 웹사이트�T GET DISCOURAGED AND DRY THEIR TEARS AND PICK THEM UP AND ENCOURAGE THEM, I GUARANTEE WE바카라 게임 웹사이트�LL LOOK UP IN A FEW YEARS WE바카라 게임 웹사이트�LL BE IN BETTER SPE