"It's something we're very, very pleased with," Edwards said.

The data shows non-fatal shootings dropped from 62 incidents in summer 2024 to 44 in 2025 during Operation Safe Summer, when Richmond Police collaborate with state and federal agencies to target violent crime. Year-to-date figures show 129 non-fatal shootings in both 2024 and 2025 through the first nine months.

"That's really going to be the story this summer of what we slowed down," Edwards said.

Edwards attributed the decrease partly to gun seizures during Operation Safe Summer, with officers confiscating 250 firearms and eight machine gun conversion devices.

"Two-hundred-fifty guns seized by the men and women behind you. The work they did this summer was incredible. Eight machine gun conversion devices were seized," Edwar

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