article_snippet: Violence is not foreign to Stockton, which saw 49 killings last year, an increase from the year before.
article_snippet: California hit record numbers with 58 homicides in 2011, and 71 in 2012.
article_snippet: In comparison, Riverside, a similarly sized city of about 300,000 people in Southern California, had 13 homicides in 2011 and 16 in 2012.