LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- The city of Louisville is launching a crime dashboard to provide real-time reporting of information to enhance transparency. 

There have been more than 600 homicides in Louisville since 2020 and more than a thousand shootings that weren't fatal during that time period.

Louisville Metro Gun Violence Dashboard has been a year-long project between the Office for Safe and Healthy Neighborhoods and Louisville Metro Police Department, according to a news release. It is funded by a $100,000 national grant from Everytown for Safety Support Fund.

According to a news release, the dashboard uses LMPD's record management to show a variety of reporting elements like maps and trends, where shots are fired, along with where homicides and non-fatal shootings happen. The data will go back all the way to 2010, when there were 52 homicides in that year.

LMPD reports 140 people have been killed in Louisville Metro this year, along with 373 people wounded by gunfire. The non-fatal shootings have dropped 10% compared to last year, according to LMPD.

Christopher 2X has tracked Louisville homicides and shootings for more than 20 years. The anti-violence activist and executive director of Christopher 2X Game Changers said the last four years have been eye-opening.

"Well over 600 fatals, close to 2000+ non-fatals," 2X said.

A program started by 2X in 2021 focuses on helping children as young as four years old impacted by gun violence. The Future Healers program is an educational initiative led by Christopher 2X Game Changers, UofL Hospital Trauma Institute and students at the University of Louisville School of Medicine. The goal of the program is to help Louisville children who have been impacted by violence in their neighborhoods to build a better future.

"The shootings in Metro Louisville are more widespread than ever before," 2X said.

As the Future Healers program focuses on children, Sunshine Hughes with PAVE draws on her personal pain as she works with adults.

"I lost my first friend when he was 13 and I was 11," Hughes said. "I didn't stay in a bad place and I sought help for the way I was feeling."

PAVE stands for Parents Against Violence Engagement, a group focused on empowering parental figures.

Roshon Blakey and Rev. Matthew Smyzer Jr. are also involved with PAVE. 

"To have wraparound services and to give, form a different perspective, how that parent can take control of their home," Smyzer Jr. said.

Smyzer said in 30 years as a Louisville pastor, he's presided over more funerals of people under 24 years old in the past 18 months than the past three decades. Whenever a shooting touches the community, he worries about the widespread impact.

"And once a spirit is broken, a bad element can control that person," Smyzer said.

Blakey is working with families to "get back to God first," saying that starts with kids in the classroom.

"There's no hope in their eyes. Sometimes they just need a hug," Blakey said.

2X believes the launch of the database means people in the city can see the reality at homes across Louisville.

"They have no idea how deep the pain, the emotions, and the recovery issues connected to the impact really is," 2X said.

Smyzer says the tremors of every shooting are reaching farther across the city.

"How many people heard about that particular gunshot victim that said, 'you know what, that could've been me,'" Smyzer said. "That number is incalculable."

That's why 2X Game Changers, PAVE and many others in Louisville are working to bring back hope.

"Continue to open doors, continue to show and share love to persons, the reality is, I think we're eventually going to get there," Smyzer Jr. said.

The dashboard is expected to be live on Nov. 28 at 10 a.m.

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