  Iheartthed Member Username: Iheartthed Post Number: 2698 Registered: 04-2006 |
quote: http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/ 02/15/no.homicides.ap/index.ht ml | ||
Mackinaw Member Username: Mackinaw Post Number: 4445 Registered: 02-2005 |
This should serve as inspiration for Detroit. I'm going to Newark a week from today. | ||
Detroitrise Member Username: Detroitrise Post Number: 1604 Registered: 09-2007 |
Congrats Newark  | ||
Detroit313 Member Username: Detroit313 Post Number: 611 Registered: 02-2006 |
Good news we could all use! <313> | ||
French777 Member Username: French777 Post Number: 337 Registered: 10-2006 |
What is Detroit's Record? anyone Know? | ||
Digitalvision Member Username: Digitalvision Post Number: 567 Registered: 11-2003 |
It looks like it's "Broken Windows" in practice: From the article: "McCarthy attributes the drop in homicides to a broader strategy to fighting crime that includes prosecuting petty crimes, like loitering and public drunkenness, as well as more serious ones." | ||
Rosedaleken Member Username: Rosedaleken Post Number: 315 Registered: 06-2005 |
Congratulations, but I'm sad that this is newsworthy... | ||
Upinottawa Member Username: Upinottawa Post Number: 1060 Registered: 09-2005 |
Last year I took the train to New York City from Trenton and I remember a large sign that you could see from the train at Newark station. It read as follows: HELP WANTED: to stop the killing of Newark's school children That billboard was not good for tourism, but it did drive home the point. | ||
Iheartthed Member Username: Iheartthed Post Number: 2702 Registered: 04-2006 |
^If you click the link, you'll see the billboard in the article. | ||
Upinottawa Member Username: Upinottawa Post Number: 1061 Registered: 09-2005 |
I guess I got the details wrong -- and I guess I was not the only person to see that sign! | ||
Danny Member Username: Danny Post Number: 7133 Registered: 02-2004 |
YAY! Newark is murder free. For a while | ||
Johnlodge Member Username: Johnlodge Post Number: 5156 Registered: 10-2003 |
Detroit needs this kind of broken windows policing. But instead of demanding that, we demand that people:  (Message edited by johnlodge on February 18, 2008) | ||
Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba Post Number: 6132 Registered: 11-2003 |
Newark has been attracting a whole new generation of Hispanics. They are really trying to revitilize. Maybe something really is happening to change things there. It is hardly a large city, compared to Detroit. jjaba. | ||
Crumbled_pavement Member Username: Crumbled_pavement Post Number: 189 Registered: 08-2007 |
Johnlodge, I think that "stop snitching" thinking is part of the criminal culture more so than the average person's thinking. Sure, there are those that won't report a crime, but it's generally not because they don't want the criminal to get in trouble but because of fear of their own safety. I think a few knuckleheads started this "stop snitching" nonsense and it was blown way out of proportion. Or maybe I'm just old and out of touch? | ||
Cdwaters Member Username: Cdwaters Post Number: 15 Registered: 02-2008 |
I worked at UPenn's school of medicine and a med student came in wearing a stop snitching shirt. My blood boiled. I wonder if he'll still be wearing that shirt after his ER rotation dealing with babies who are the victims of drive-bys. Someone smart enough to get into an ivy league med school showing his ignorance. | ||
Buyamerican Member Username: Buyamerican Post Number: 394 Registered: 02-2007 |
"There was a fatal shooting of a 30-year-old man by an off-duty Newark police officer on February 3. But Newark police spokesman Lt. Todd McClendon said that doesn't count as a homicide under the FBI's reporting guidelines" What are the FBI's guidelines regarding murder? | ||
Cdwaters Member Username: Cdwaters Post Number: 16 Registered: 02-2008 |
http://www.nj.com/news/index.s sf/2008/02/initial_review_find s_fatal_sho.html Here's the story on that Feb 3rd shooting, I don't know what the guidelines are, but this definitely doesn't sound like murder to me. |
