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Time to change the narrative on Milwaukee youths and crime
Milwaukee J-S ^ | 28 may 2014 | James Causey

Posted on 05/28/2014 2:38:05 AM PDT by rellimpank

Everyone should be concerned when an 18-year-old is being held in connection with a shootout on a school playground that left a 10-year-old fighting for her life.

Sylvester A. Lewis is expected to be charged Wednesday. He has been arrested 15 times since the age of 12 and was on probation at the time of the Clarke Street Elementary School shooting on May 21. Police are looking for a second suspect, and three other people were taken into custody for aiding a felon.

This cannot be the end of the narrative.

We have seen this repeated too many times in Milwaukee. The uptick in shootings this early in the year doesn't bode well for the summer months.

And there will be another shooting. Since 1995, at least nine children were killed by errant gunfire in Milwaukee, and there have been dozens shot who lived to tell about it.

We get outraged when children are caught in the crossfire. We hold rallies; we scream that the shootings must stop. There are cries for more gun laws and harsher prison terms. The mental health care system needs fixing.

On Monday, Milwaukee Police Chief Edward Flynn said his officers do a good job of catching criminals because they have a lot of practice doing that. Unfortunately, he's right. And for the most part, the criminal justice system also does a good job of holding men behind bars, but if we really want to reduce the number of senseless shootings and high male incarceration rates in the future, we need to address it more on the front end.

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To: rellimpank

Sheriff David Clark had some harsh (and accurate) words on this yesterday.


21 posted on 05/28/2014 6:19:25 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: rellimpank

I’m outraged over the lack of opportunity out there for young men of color. I’m outraged that these young men can’t see past the next moment, hour or day. I’m outraged that leaders in the community are silent until tragedy strikes. They should talk to their constituents today, not just at election time when they need the votes.

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But he does not seem to be outraged at the lack of parental involvement. No mention of outrage over all of the out-of-wedlock births or the lack of religious participation by the families of thugs like these.


22 posted on 05/28/2014 6:23:20 AM PDT by Bigg Red (1 Pt 1: As he who called you is holy, be holy yourselves in every aspect of your conduct.)
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To: MrB
Question for liberals-

Why are there more men in prison than women?

Does this answer apply to other demographic slices?

The liberal answer would be hysterical shouts of RACISM!

23 posted on 05/28/2014 6:23:40 AM PDT by Count of Monte Fisto (The foundation of modern society is the denial of reality.)
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To: Count of Monte Fisto

Must be “sexism” that causes more men to be imprisoned than women then, right?

Or would the cry of “racism” be due to the logic trap that such a line of questioning sets?


24 posted on 05/28/2014 6:37:57 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: rellimpank

I left Milwaukee in Feb of 1964.

It was a hellhole then & it has only gotten worse.

Won’t ever go back.


25 posted on 05/28/2014 7:20:21 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: OldPossum
Hello?


26 posted on 05/28/2014 7:25:35 AM PDT by McBuff
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To: McBuff

For those who go to the movies.


27 posted on 05/28/2014 9:38:33 AM PDT by OldPossum ("It's" is the contraction of "it" and "is"; think about ITS implications.)
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To: MrB

Ageism ,too!
Most go to prison at 18-25.


28 posted on 05/28/2014 10:49:36 AM PDT by TurboZamboni (Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.-JFK)
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To: GOPJ

Great post...*clapping*


29 posted on 05/28/2014 11:23:17 AM PDT by gibsosa
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To: ridesthemiles

Parents moved us out in 70, I won’t even go to visit relatives that still live there...


30 posted on 05/28/2014 11:24:55 AM PDT by gibsosa
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To: Junk Silver
This doesn’t even have anything to do with skin color. Many legal black immigrants from Haiti and Africa have solid family values and work ethics and are prospering in the USA. Years ago I did a project with some Haitians in Boston and was struck by the contempt they had for Boston’s poor black community, who they viewed as being weak and degenerate.

You're totally right on this Junk Silver...

Blacks from many counties come here and do well... they haven't been polluted with the 'culture' white liberal elites handed to blacks in the 60's.

For some strange reason the politics of resentment and anger don't translate into cultural success... even if great tools for getting out the black vote - to prop up white liberal elites - to hold blacks dependent - and the circle of failure and rage continues...

31 posted on 05/28/2014 11:56:57 AM PDT by GOPJ (>The Mainstream Ministry of Information does not stand for liberty. Freeper Gene Eric)
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To: OldPossum

There were two of them in this household...


32 posted on 06/01/2014 1:48:59 PM PDT by gnarledmaw (Obama: Evincing a Design since 2009)
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