WFB: Gun violence in South Bend remains a constant under Buttigieg
After 18 people were killed in South Bend during the summer of 2012, Mayor Pete Buttigieg (D.) declared the city “unacceptably violent” and announced a data-driven anti-violence commission to combat the problem.
“We have to send the message that one violent crime in our city is one too many. We cannot tolerate another summer like last summer,” Buttigieg said during his 2013 State of the Cityspeech.
Composed of a group of community leaders and overseen by Police Chief Ron Teachman, the South Bend Group Violence Intervention sought to use both community and law enforcement methods to reduce gang violence and provide offenders—especially young people—a “moral” alternative to a life of crime. Buttigieg also said the city would double the number of mentors reaching out to at-risk youth through the SBGVI in the next three years.
The SBGVI first met in April 2013 and began by assessing the specifics of gun violence in the city. Expectations were high, with Buttigieg promising to seriously address the problem, which had resulted in 78 people injured or killed in shootings the previous year.
“The community will not tolerate this anymore. There will be serious consequences if you do not change. We have help for you if you’re willing to change,” Buttigieg said before the meeting.
The day after the commission’s first meeting, the trial for one of the most gruesome crimes of the previous summer concluded. Eighteen-year-old Damontray Lovelady pleaded guilty to fatally shooting 16-year-old Jhaelon Johnson as he was walking down the street. The two high-school students had been “beefing” and exchanging gunshots for several months prior. While driving through a neighborhood in early September 2012, Lovelady spotted Johnson walking with a group of friends, hooked a U-turn, and shot him in the head.
“These acts of senseless violence are unacceptable, and all of us in the community must recommit to preventing future tragedies,” Buttigieg said in a statement at the time. “Everyone—from police to parents, from teachers to elected officials—has a role to play in making young lives better and making our community safer.”
Johnson’s death was the 13th of the summer that claimed 18 lives—twice the number killed in 2011 and triple the number in 2010. read more
Butt-gigged is just like the rest of the Progs. Create more “Gov’t Employees”, spending an armful of money to pay them, with still no real accomplishment, then trying to do a “Swallow-well” to justify it all.
If he’d found a cure for original sin, he wouldn’t still be homosexual. 😳
Question: Is Buttigieg his married name or birth name?
Blah blah blah blah. Just more lip service. Maybe the wrong choice of words,considering.
Longshank’s son.
Pete is a pretty typical leftist. Promise free stuff, criticize the President, promote his identity politics membership. Nothing new here.
Looking for a taxpayer gig: https://youtu.be/mU66sTO2EOs
Proud id politics membership: https://youtu.be/Quau2RxMBl0
Buttigiggles the Sodomite Clown. Idiocracy meets John Wayne Gacy on Folsom St. and gives him the launch codes to thermonuclear missiles.
Sadly, it’s becoming more apparent with every passing pronouncement from Mayor Buttplugger’s Orifice that the Mayor doesn’t know her arse from her husband’s back passage. I know that everyone was SO hopeful that this homosexualist was going to lead the way to a softer, more gentle approach to gun violence by the inspirational story of how he found true love and socialism in a small town in Indiana, but it doesn’t seem that the restless natives are going to restrain themselves. Can a Proclamation appealing to the gentler nature of his restless natives help calm the savages before the Iowa picnic season gets fully underway? Will the Mayor start cruising the rough neighborhoods to console the young bucks and show them the path to socialist homosexual enlightenment? Anderson Cooper wants to experience this firsthand. Stay tuned for the Love Connection.
Mayor Peter looks like that other loser, the guy in the tank with a big helmet. Silly lookin’ fella. The name escapes me.
He’s so useless, he should be called Barry II.
iow, the squish of the day
GiggyButt is the gay version of Kasich, exc. daddy wadn’t a mailman
Offering hot oil massages isn’t working Pete?
Outside of being a cum-bucket (like Harris and Gillibrand) what, exactly, is his claim to fame?
Invent anything?
Save some chillens from a burning building?
Single-handedly stop an armed robbery?
Bring peace to the Mid-East?
Tear down the Wall?
Just another Demonrat fag (not that there’s anything wrong with that) who can’t stop yammering about being a fag, and faggism, in general.
There’s no THERE, THERE.
izlamo delenda est …
“Gigglypoof the Horses Hoof”
Mayor Peter-puffer Butti-plug should come up with a daring new plan to solve his growing crime problem. How about mid-night basketball??? Yeah, that will work.
Sodomy is probably rampant too.
I would like to ask the rump ranger if he knows what the difference is between a queer and a refrigerator.
‘difference between a queer and a refrigerator’.
A 2 or 3 way adapter?
Just’s wonders as well,,
Although don’t need to know,,
Great question!
LOL
Recall he has rampant violence in a sleepy midwest town with a modest population of 100,000. If he cannot get a handle on this minor problem there is no way in Hell he is qualified to even be the dog catcher in a larger city.
I’m so tired of the preferential treatment given to homosexuals. He would be nobody in this race if it wasn’t for his sexual perversions and depravity.