Posted July 19, 2019 5:30 pm by Comments

By Cam Edwards

Santiago Covarrubias/Sun Times via AP

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot says she’s going to start treating violence as a public health crisis in Chicago, claiming that will help the city “dig down into the root causes of the violence”. The mayor went on to say:

“Previously we had a law enforcement first and only strategy and it wasn’t working. It’s not working when you talk about neighborhoods where the unemployment rate is 25% or higher. It’s not working when you think about the fact that in many communities, 90% or more of residents are depending on public assistance and where neighborhoods haven’t been invested in, where there’s no real legitimate economic activity.”

It’s absolutely untrue to say that Chicago has had a “law enforcement first and only strategy” in place. The Cure Violence program, for example, has operated in several Chicago neighborhoods since 2004 and claims to have seen reductions in shootings and homicides of 41% to 73% over the years. The controversial program deploys former gang members as “violence interrupters” in high-crime neighborhoods. The idea is that these individuals can talk to current gang members and get them to stop shooting one another …Read the Rest

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