Residents in Miami ZIP codes long plagued by gun violence saw local homicide rates plummet between 2020 and 2024, and a new report says it’s due in large part to community-based violence prevention and victim service programs.

The analysis by Scaling Safety — a joint public safety effort by the Alliance for Safety and Justice and CBPS Collective nonprofits — found firearm-related homicides fell over that span by 83% in ZIP code 33147, which covers much of the Liberty City neighborhood, and 60% in ZIP code 33142, which largely spans Allapattah.

Gun killings in ZIP code 33147 dropped from 31 in 2020 to just five in 2024. That included a 72% decline between 2023 and 2024 alone.

In ZIP code 33142, firearm homicides declined from 20 in 2020 to eight last year.

ZIP codes 3314

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