Oakland officials prepare new crime reduction plan (VIDEO)

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There's a major new effort underway to try to stop the killings in Oakland. Called Ceasefire, it's a new crime-fighting strategy that officials hope will drastically reduce the number of shootings in the city. So far this year, 73 people have been killed. Six happened in just the past week.

The City of Oakland has been down this road before, implementing a new initiative to get guns off the street, only to have little or limited success.

"The federal government, ATF, DEA, FBI, US Marshals. So it's coordinating that existing assistance that we have from them and weaving it in to the Ceasefire initiative as well as local law enforcement like probation and parole," Harmon said.