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Attorney general pledges help to Youngstown police
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The state attorney general has committed the services of his office to help law enforcement in Youngstown.
Richard Cordray said today at a Safety Summit at St. Dominic Church that the Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation will process DNA and fingerprints from Youngstown crime scenes without limit.
Although the attorney general’s office historically did not conduct lab analysis for property crimes, he said that has since changed.
“We’ve made a point and are now taking DNA from property crimes,” he said, noting that 200 such cases are already in process.
Cordray added that this could free up Youngstown police officers from investigative duties to increase patrols.
For the complete story about the Safety Summit, see Thursday’s Vindicator.
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Nice pledge, right around election time. Empty promise.
Do any of you read the articles before you post about them?
It says that they already have over 200 cases currently being handled. I doubt this program started just last week.
The 200 cases are probably statewide. Big deal. Probably Cleveland and Toledo, being that is where the Democrats get most of their votes. They know they can count votes, from the Youngstown area no matter if they throw a crumb our way or not.
Property crimes in Youngstown have always been viewed as no big deal . There was more of a concern for those perpetrating these crimes getting injured or killed than there was for the property owners dilema . Major Jay Williams still has hatred to this day for the Palestinian Grocers shooting robbers in the past .
He could help,..
However, the problem is the organized crime being orchestrated from downtown. There's no way crime thrives in any area where they don't have empowered associates that are running the racket.
I'm a Cordray supporter and where not to fault his local efforts. However, fact is no matter what Mr. Cordray does to assist patrolmen he's not going to affect the Valley's crime epidemic until he starts prosecuting above the badge.
Said reality is just like common citizen's patrol personnel don't stand a chance when the crime is being orchestrated from positions of seized authority.
The citizen's lay prey and the patrol personnel only follow marching orders. Where neither can be as affective as they'd like or could be. With having to contend with being controlled by corruption throughout the courts, city council and the commissioning board.
Where Corday certainly seems willing to help the citizens are going to have to demand more and vote criminals out of perch in the city and county rolls of legislature and governance.
That's not Election time speak either it's the facts. That history has proved that beefing up the patrol forces won't top the crime when it's being orchestrated from higher up.