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Gary beefs up appeal to Pence for state police help
Post-Tribune ^ | July 25, 2013 | Post-Tribune Staff

Posted on 07/26/2013 1:41:47 PM PDT by John W

GARY — Mayor Karen Freeman-Wilson wrote a second, more detailed appeal to Gov. Mike Pence on Tuesday, asking him to send Indiana State Police into the city to boost police presence for three months.

Since the July 11 letter, “several more homicides occurred claiming the lives of young African-American males. The situation in our community is now beyond urgent,” the mayor wrote.

Attached to the letter is a five-page, “Gary, Indiana for Life” plan that includes many operations and programs in place long before the recent jump in violent deaths here.

No one from the governor’s office returned messages left by the Post-Tribune seeking comment on the request.

The introduction to the plan calls this year’s 31 homicides “unprecedented,” citing a more than 50 percent increase over the same time in 2012.

(Excerpt) Read more at posttrib.suntimes.com ...


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1 posted on 07/26/2013 1:41:47 PM PDT by John W
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To: John W

Gary, the Chicago wannabee!


2 posted on 07/26/2013 1:42:59 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (The only growth industries left under Progressives are government and poverty.)
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To: John W

Gary isn’t in much better shape than Detroit. The simple fact is that the destruction of Detroit devastated an area from Pittsburgh to Chicago.


3 posted on 07/26/2013 1:44:22 PM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: John W

How many black youth were shot by “white Hispanics”?

how many were shot by other black men?

Who does she blame for the killing fields of Gary???


4 posted on 07/26/2013 1:49:02 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Dilbert San Diego

When a black man shoots a black man, it’s a crazy-ass cracker’s fault.


5 posted on 07/26/2013 1:50:59 PM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: John W

PS: make sure the state PO-leece are all black; since I don’t think a white PO-leeceman could stop, shakedown, arrest, or shoot a local hoodlum, w/o creating an international incident.


6 posted on 07/26/2013 1:51:32 PM PDT by Migraine (Diversity is great -- until it happens to YOU..)
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To: John W

Another Democrat trying to do what Democrats naturally do. Get somebody else to bail them out with funding from the magic money tree. After all it’s the governments money.


7 posted on 07/26/2013 1:52:01 PM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will. They ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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To: All

Sorry, but I’m over it.....why in the he77 should I care if young black men are killing one another?
Statistically that improves the chances for the rest of us to be left the he&& alone.


8 posted on 07/26/2013 1:53:13 PM PDT by Maverick68
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To: Migraine

Good point. Nowadays, white cops dealing with black suspects are going to be considered racist. In this politically correct world, ideally we would have only black cops dealing with the black criminal element, to neutralize talk of racism.


9 posted on 07/26/2013 1:53:43 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: John W

If I was Pence, I say no until she drops one of her hyphenated names..


10 posted on 07/26/2013 1:55:52 PM PDT by cardinal4 (Skip impeachment and move straight to deportation..)
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To: rockinqsranch

Yup, asking for what is still a bailout by other means. In this case just trying to get the taxpayers to pay for more police in the city.


11 posted on 07/26/2013 1:57:23 PM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: Maverick68

well God ain’t over it, Mav. lying down on the job is frowned upon from heaven


12 posted on 07/26/2013 1:58:30 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Whatever promise that God has made, in Jesus it is yes. See my page.)
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To: John W
includes many operations and programs in place long before the recent jump in violent deaths here

because they are working oh so well

13 posted on 07/26/2013 1:59:10 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: GeronL

Midnight basketball. Is there any problem it can’t solve?


14 posted on 07/26/2013 2:00:01 PM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: John W

What has changed in Gary since about the time US Steel closed their last operation there? The place has ALWAYS been a pit from somewhere deep in Hades, and while the situation today is almost insufferably terrible, still it has not changed much in some thirty or forty years.

And it still makes East St. Louis, Illinois, look good.


15 posted on 07/26/2013 2:00:13 PM PDT by alloysteel (Unattended children will be given a Red Bull and a free Kazoo. Reminds me of Congress...)
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To: alloysteel
Gae-Ri, a Korean rapper asking for Indiana State Police??


16 posted on 07/26/2013 2:02:06 PM PDT by GeronL
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Mayor Karen Freeman-Wilson

Let the thugs kill each other until they are all gone.

Let the law-abiding citizens carry locked-and-loaded, and shoot to kill the thugs on approach.

17 posted on 07/26/2013 2:03:18 PM PDT by meadsjn
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To: Sherman Logan
When a black man shoots a black man, it’s a crazy-ass cracker’s fault.

Of course it is. If white flight hadn't reduced the white targets available ...

18 posted on 07/26/2013 2:06:33 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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To: cripplecreek
the destruction of Detroit...Pittsburgh...Chicago...

I’m sensing the pattern no one dareth speak of.
19 posted on 07/26/2013 2:09:32 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: cripplecreek; GeronL

” Midnight basketball. Is there any problem it can’t solve?”

It can’t solve the problem of which player gets stuck with robbing the 7-Eleven after the game.


20 posted on 07/26/2013 2:09:33 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (K I L L T H E B I L L !!)
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