David, you got work!
Author David Kennedy's "Don't Shoot: One Man, A Street Fellowship, and The End of Violence in Inner City America," is a Peoria Reads! Special Project, as well as the inspiration for a Peoria Police Department task force and public initiative called "Don't Shoot."
Published in 2011, Kennedy's book addresses violence through a program that brings gang members to the negotiating table, and intensifies police focus on crime hot spots, in order to prevent deadly shootings.
Kennedy is tentatively scheduled to visit Peoria in late August, and will meet with city officials.
In late June, the Peoria Police Department initiated a task force aimed at reducing gun violence. It was the third year in a row for the task force, and came at the end of an especially brutal stretch of gunplay, in which the city saw 50 percent of the year's gun violence take place in six weeks - from May 9, to June 20. Source
A violent crime task force that is part of a major anti-street violence initiative called Don't Shoot has been saturating crime hot spots since mid-June. Below are the results from June 20 through Aug. 13. Source
- 1,616: Traffic stops
- 604: Traffic citations
- 129: Municipal ordinance violations
- 202: Vehicle impounds
- 477: Arrests
- 33: Guns
- $29,751: Cash
- 1,175: Grams of marijuana
- 64: Grams of crack
- 34: Ecstasy tablets
- 20: Grams of heroin
2 comments:
I was actually listening to this call over the scanner. There were it sounded like a total of 4 patrol cars patrolling Argo st last night looking for a black male in a white t-shirt and black shorts. They did say shots fired but thats all I heard.
Looks like the police are being hunted. wonder if that gets the council's attention? How can the Don't Shoot book be an inspiration for the task force, when this is the 3rd year that it has been done? It can't. It is very disappointing that in a year the current state's attorney has only been ablel to pull something from a pop psychology book, rather than use the office to its full potential to reduce crime. And the city council has had at least 8 months to come up with a strategic plan to address the number one item in that plan..namely crime. The best they can do is recycle what has been done before and not even use the best tools that they had available, but no longer fund. This is election year bs. Look closely at the numbers being fed. First of all the Don't Shoot task force is not designed to deal with any thing but gun crimes where the weapon is actually fired. Re read the Pjstar article. Nothing was mentioned in the reported stats of the 32% increase in aggravated assaults. Pull up the city's own crime stats. There have been 140 weapons crimes. go through and see that they are mainly gun crimes. Why the discrepancy?
Do not fall for this, demand that your tax dollars go to actually address the crime problems rather than to do just enough to re-elect the same bunch of uninvolved individuals.
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