New York City, Chicago, Paterson and Atlanta: Conversation over Violence and Killings
July 8 2020 By Abiodun Giwa
Mayor Lori LIghtfoot of Chicago
Is the violence in minority and poor communities caused by gangs or by guns in wrong hands? This is a question begging for answers as news of shootings and killings emerge from New York, Chicago New York, and Paterson in New Jersey. Violence with children as victims or witness to killings have led to conversations in which administrators and police chiefs seem helpless, and safety becoming something remote and children are unsafe walking the street with adults or playing in front of their own homes.
A seven years old girl was reportedly shot to death in Chicago. A six years old walking with her father on New York street witnessed her father gunned down in the daylight. Chicago's Mayor Lori Lightfoot, and Police Chief David Brown, are both astounded over increased violence and killings in their city.
New Yorkers are talking about renewed violence in the city following Black Lives Matter protesters's demand for defunding and abolition of police, with fears of the return of the crime riddled city of the 1990s, after $1billion was slashed by the city council from the police budget. Mayor de Blasio has catapulted to protesters' demand to show he believes in Black Lives Matter protest by shifting money from police to other areas for community services. But the words of Georgian Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms that violence and killings in these liberal communities are no longer what 'Black LIves Matter' is all about. People call it 'Blacks on Blacks Violence'.
Chicago mayor blames the violence in the city to the inflow of guns from Indiana and gangs and lack of accountability for committed crime. The police chief agrees with the mayor. He says "There is a lot of gang activity and a lot and lot of drug activity." Police Commissioner in New York, Dermot Shea, said, "It is bad people with guns. and doesn't get simpler than that. People settling scores, spraying a crowd."
Prominent in this conversation are gangs and guns and indiscriminate shootings and killings. Chicago leads the violence spree and watching the city's police chief on television pleading for an end to violence has become a recurrent occurrence, because in the city has become a recurrence episode leading to what many observers describe as senseless bloodshed. The numbers are there as witness.
The city witnessed 80 shootings on July 4 reportedly with 17 fatalities, ABC News reported.In a separate case, the New York Times reported that 18 people have been shot dead in Chicago since June 20 and that toddlers too were hit. People remember that Seattle has recently been freed from 'Chop'. The killings there and Atlanta are still fresh in observers' minds. New York City and Chicago have guns, drugs and lack of accountability for crime committed pose serious problems.
A seven years old girl was reportedly shot to death in Chicago. A six years old walking with her father on New York street witnessed her father gunned down in the daylight. Chicago's Mayor Lori Lightfoot, and Police Chief David Brown, are both astounded over increased violence and killings in their city.
New Yorkers are talking about renewed violence in the city following Black Lives Matter protesters's demand for defunding and abolition of police, with fears of the return of the crime riddled city of the 1990s, after $1billion was slashed by the city council from the police budget. Mayor de Blasio has catapulted to protesters' demand to show he believes in Black Lives Matter protest by shifting money from police to other areas for community services. But the words of Georgian Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms that violence and killings in these liberal communities are no longer what 'Black LIves Matter' is all about. People call it 'Blacks on Blacks Violence'.
Chicago mayor blames the violence in the city to the inflow of guns from Indiana and gangs and lack of accountability for committed crime. The police chief agrees with the mayor. He says "There is a lot of gang activity and a lot and lot of drug activity." Police Commissioner in New York, Dermot Shea, said, "It is bad people with guns. and doesn't get simpler than that. People settling scores, spraying a crowd."
Prominent in this conversation are gangs and guns and indiscriminate shootings and killings. Chicago leads the violence spree and watching the city's police chief on television pleading for an end to violence has become a recurrent occurrence, because in the city has become a recurrence episode leading to what many observers describe as senseless bloodshed. The numbers are there as witness.
The city witnessed 80 shootings on July 4 reportedly with 17 fatalities, ABC News reported.In a separate case, the New York Times reported that 18 people have been shot dead in Chicago since June 20 and that toddlers too were hit. People remember that Seattle has recently been freed from 'Chop'. The killings there and Atlanta are still fresh in observers' minds. New York City and Chicago have guns, drugs and lack of accountability for crime committed pose serious problems.
Mayor Bill de Blasio of New York
One similar trend between Chicago and New York aside from the killings and the likelihood that shootings are in the cities are gang related is lack of accountability for people who commit crime. Both the mayor of Chicago and the police chief mentioned the reason as possible capsule leading to increased crime because criminals who are supposed to behind bars are released back to terrorize communities where they should not be.
People are asking who to blame for the malady. Some are saying the liberal politicians who are in power in the cities. People are asking whether it is not the policies of liberal politicians who administer the cities are responsible for allowing the criminals to be released from jail instead of serving their term. And instead of blaming themselves, they are crying like they are themselves not culpable.
It is the reason observers are holding the mayors responsible for the violence in their cities. First, people say the bucks stop on their tables as chief executive of their cities. People are saying the mayors may blame the violence and killings on drugs, gangs and guns, but the truth they say is that the mayors have failed to work towards reining in the violence and killings. They don't cooperate with the police, but cooperate with the deviants and paid protesters. They foist policies that endanger their communities. They prefer talking politics than going down and do the work they are voted to do.
There are calls for the resignation of de Blasio of New York for lack of accountability in the ways that he runs the city hall. News reports from Chicago say that the violence and killings are happening despite the infusion of additional police officers. Whatever the underline cause of the troubles that are refusing to go away is seen as demonstration of failure by leaders to deliver on their campaign promises to effectively administer their cities..
People are asking who to blame for the malady. Some are saying the liberal politicians who are in power in the cities. People are asking whether it is not the policies of liberal politicians who administer the cities are responsible for allowing the criminals to be released from jail instead of serving their term. And instead of blaming themselves, they are crying like they are themselves not culpable.
It is the reason observers are holding the mayors responsible for the violence in their cities. First, people say the bucks stop on their tables as chief executive of their cities. People are saying the mayors may blame the violence and killings on drugs, gangs and guns, but the truth they say is that the mayors have failed to work towards reining in the violence and killings. They don't cooperate with the police, but cooperate with the deviants and paid protesters. They foist policies that endanger their communities. They prefer talking politics than going down and do the work they are voted to do.
There are calls for the resignation of de Blasio of New York for lack of accountability in the ways that he runs the city hall. News reports from Chicago say that the violence and killings are happening despite the infusion of additional police officers. Whatever the underline cause of the troubles that are refusing to go away is seen as demonstration of failure by leaders to deliver on their campaign promises to effectively administer their cities..
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