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Pittsburgh will study gang violence to combat climbing murder rate
TweetPublished: Wed, October 8, 2008 @ 9:00 a.m.
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Pittsburgh will spend $200,000 on a gang violence study in hopes of curbing the city’s murder rate within six months.
The city has already passed last year’s murder total of 52 and is on pace to top the 64 killings seen in 2005.
The study by Pitt’s school of social work is part of the larger Pittsburgh Initiative to Reduce Crime. That program rounds up the city’s worst criminals and confronts them with the relatives of crime victims and other neighborhood leaders in hopes they’ll change their ways.
If they don’t, police target the killers and their associates unless the gangs police themselves. The approach is said to have worked in other cities, including Cincinnati and Boston.
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“That program rounds up the city’s worst criminals and confronts them with the relatives of crime victims and other neighborhood leaders in hopes they’ll change their ways.”
Well there’s your problem!
If you are going to round up ‘the city’s worst criminals’, shouldn’t they be put in prison to protect potential victims from their criminal activity?
“If they don’t, police target the killers”??????
Does this mean it is ok to kill once, as long as you promise not to do it again???
I’m sorry, but any society that takes this kind of approach to violent criminals is doomed to fail. First you need to prosecute and punish these criminals to the maximum extent of the law, then you take their children away from them and give them an education and a sense of values so that they at least have the possibility of not being an abject failure in life like their parent(s).