...it’s a confluence of a number of different things, primary of which is people’s desire to stay alive and free.
Rev. Michael McBride, he
directs the Lifelines to Healing Campaign, a project of the PICO National Network. The campaign is committed to addressing gun violence and mass incarceration of young people of color.
and was responding to
"In 2013 there was a drop in homicides in Oakland, San Francisco, Richmond...in San Jose, [and] in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago—from your perspective what do you think is going on here?"