He Said What?

From the San Fran Chronicle:

A pile of flowers, candles, teddy bears and farewell notes grew by the hour Monday afternoon on a quiet street in East Oakland, but they were little comfort to Mike Harris.

Harris, whose longtime family friend Jubrille Jordan, 15, was fatally shot at the site Sunday afternoon, was awash in tears as he surveyed the makeshift memorial.

"She was my sweetheart. They killed my sweetheart," said Harris, a neatly dressed man in his 50s, as he wiped his eyes. "What happened? I don't know, I don't know."
Jubrille was Oakland's 12th child killed in 2012, and its 131st homicide victim in one of the city's deadliest years in recent memory.....
"We as a community and as a police department need to do a better job protecting our young people," Jordan said Monday afternoon. "2013 will be the year we no longer accept this level of senseless violence."
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/15-year-old-girl-gunned-down-in-Oakland-4158925.php#ixzz2GiJDdHt0
So, the years leading up to 2013, they allowed senseless violence?