For the last thirteen years I have participated in a task force to reduce violent crime in upstate NY. Right now we are experiencing the most virulent amount of shootings I have ever seen in my almost 45 years in law enforcement.
Nothing is working; all our
focused deterrence, AKA lever pulling strategies that we implemented (as espoused by by Dr. Kennedy and demonstrated in the
Boston Cease Fire model) seem to have had no effect. One particularly violent area of the city has already had a 170% increase in shootings since another OJJDP (Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention) model anti-violence program started two years ago.
But what seems to work is
this:
Shootings down by half during snowy weekend in Chicago
Fifteen people were shot in Chicago over the weekend, less than half of last weekend’s toll and the fewest in the city in months.
Still, Chicago is on pace this year for the most homicides since at least 1998, when the police department said there were 704 homicides.
The number of people shot is also the most in decades: At least 4,170 people so far this year. With less than three weeks left in the year, that marks a 40 percent increase over the total number of shootings in 2015, according to Tribune data.
Forget the social workers, violence intervention specialists and all that other liberal crap. Seed the clouds, and bring the cold. Let them fear the Grim Ice Maker. Unleash the fury of Lake Michigan. Let's see if they can still kill one another through ski-bys.
I'm going to retire in a few months. I won't miss this at all. The nuclear black family has been all but destroyed in our inner cities. Black children have expressed strong identification with gangs as early as the second grade, more so than with members of their own families.
This will not get better by throwing money at it. We need parents who love their children more than themselves.
