A youth program intended to keep kids in Tacoma safe and active through the summer is already seeing record attendance, and the kids say they love it.
School is out, summer has arrived and crime is up in some communities throughout the region. A national study by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention shows that juvenile law-breaking increases more than 30 percent between June and September. Locally, there has been a rise in young people involved in gun crimes. Community organizations in the South Sound teamed up to curb the violence by keeping young people active."The Late Night program has been a blast.
A call to action to protect young people created the Summer Late Nights program. In the first few months of 2023, three teens lost their lives to gun violence, and 10 more teens were convicted as adults for violent crimes. Tacoma City Council unanimously adopted Resolution 41197 in May 2023 as a commitment to decrease violence in the community.
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