• From May 9, 2014 to January 29, 2024 there have been:
  • 85 victims killed.
  • 19 victims injured.
  • 6 suspects killed.
  • 24 suspects arrested.
• From 2013 to 2022 Pomona has:
  • Averaged about 55 homicides and non-fatal injury shootings per year.
  • A 5-Year floating average from 2013 to 2017 was 53.8 shootings.
  • A 5-Year floating average from 2018 to 2022 was 56.6 shootings.
• Pomona’s homicide rate consistently exceeds state and national rates.
• Pomona experienced an average of 17.4 homicides annually from 2003 to 2022.
• Pomona experienced an average of 38 non-fatal injury shootings from 2013 to 2022.
• From 2013 to 2022 there were 11.1 homicides per 100,000 residents.
• Pomona’s gun violence victims and suspects are predominantly young men of color.
  • 70% of gun violence participants are Hispanic.
  • 24% of gun violence participants are black.
• Young black men are at especially high risk of gun violence involvement. They make up only 5.9% of residents but almost 24% of victims and suspects.
• Only 7% of victims and suspects were 17 or younger.
• 75% of victims and suspects had been previously incarcerated.
• 79% had prior/active probation.
• 40% had prior/active parole.
• 70% of identified suspects in violent incidents are associated with groups/gangs and about half of the victims are associated with groups/gangs.
• 23.1% of gun violence incidents are from group-related disputes.
• 19.2% of gun violence incidents are from instant disputes.
• 11.5% of gun violence incidents are from personal disputes.
• 2.9% of gun violence incidents are from domestic disputes.
• 2.9% of gun violence incidents are from robbery.
• 31.7% of gun violence incidents are from undetermined reasons.
• Pomona has over 19 active gangs in the city with an estimate of about 570-690 gang members (about .5% of the city’s population).
• 17% of shootings in Pomona involve groups from other cities – primarily from La Puente and Los Angeles.

* Taken from www.gunviolencearchive.org

* Office of Violence Prevention and Neighborhood Wellbeing study (2023).