Thursday, February 14, 2013
The Real Cures for Gun Violence - WSJ.com
William Bratton is a former police commissioner of New York City.
It seems he might know something as he presided during a time when gun violence was reduced in that city...
It seems he might know something as he presided during a time when gun violence was reduced in that city...
The following is from a David Feith interview posted on the Wall Street Journal website:
"'People are out on the streets who should be in jail. Jail is appropriate for anyone who uses a gun in the commission of an act of violence. Some cities have a deplorable lack of attention to this issue,' he says, citing Philadelphia.
In Chicago, where the murder rate rose 16% last year, 'to try to put someone in jail for gun-related activity you really have to go the extra mile,' he says. "If there's one crime for which there has to be a certainty of punishment, it is gun violence." He ticks off other places where help is needed: 'Oakland, Chicago, D.C., Baltimore—all have gangs whose members have no capacity for caring about life and respect for life. Someone like that? Put 'em in jail. Get 'em off the streets. Keep people safe.'"
