Gun crime rates have fallen in Liverpool in the past five years - despite a recent spate of high-profile tragedies that saw three innocent people gunned down in just six days.
Figures obtained by the ECHO from Merseyside Police show the number of gun crimes reported in Liverpool has dropped from 283 in 2021 to 241 in the months leading up to December 12 2022.
The number of reported shots fired increased from 43 to 46, but this was still was still less than half the number of shots reported five years ago in 2017 (94). Some 79 shots were reported in 2018, and 82 in 2019, before plummeting to 48 in 2020.
