  E_hemingway Member Username: E_hemingway Post Number: 804 Registered: 11-2004 Posted From: 69.242.215.8 |
Officials expand efforts to curb gun violence in Detroit http://www.detnews.com/apps/pb cs.dll/article?AID=/20060629/U PDATE/606290443 Didn't they announce that they were expanding this a year ago? Is anyone familiar with this initiative? Is it really producing some results or is it just an excuse for politicians to grad a positive headline in an election year? | ||
E_hemingway Member Username: E_hemingway Post Number: 806 Registered: 11-2004 Posted From: 69.242.215.8 |
Bump Detroit expands reach of gun violence crackdown program Joshua Project will cover larger area in southwestern part of city, thanks to funding boost. http://www.detnews.com/apps/pb cs.dll/article?AID=/20060630/M ETRO/606300378 | ||
Mikeg Member Username: Mikeg Post Number: 92 Registered: 12-2005 Posted From: 69.136.155.244 |
Here is a link to a cached version of the Aug. 25, 2004 Detroit News article announcing the start of the project. Notably absent then and now is Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy. | ||
E_hemingway Member Username: E_hemingway Post Number: 807 Registered: 11-2004 Posted From: 69.242.215.8 |
If this program is working so well, why is it only spreading to the city's southwest side? Why wait to impliment it broadly throughout the city? I know gangs are mainly organized on the southwest side, but that's not to say there aren't groups of thugs elsewhere in the city. | ||
Mikeg Member Username: Mikeg Post Number: 94 Registered: 12-2005 Posted From: 69.136.155.244 |
My guess would be that besides the funding issue, the scarce resources (bottleneck to expansion) are assistant attorneys general and assistant prosecutors. Cox probably can't afford to assign any more assistant attorneys general than he has already contributed. Left unsaid is whether there have been any assistant prosecutors assigned to this project by the Wayne County Prosecutor. | ||
Paulmcall Member Username: Paulmcall Post Number: 766 Registered: 05-2004 Posted From: 68.40.119.216 |
Too bad this project is 40 years too late. I hope it can turn things around but by then there won't be many folks living in the neighborhoods. They'll all be downtown or long gone to the burbs. |
