Survey finds addressing gun violence key issue in minority communities

Milwaukee J-S ^ | 30 apr 2016 | Ashley Luthern

[rellimpank]

A survey of African-American and Latino communities found most believe addressing gun violence can lead to improved police-community relations and reduced rates of incarceration, according to a new report.

The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, the Urban Institute and the Joyce Foundation commissioned the study, which was based on a national survey of 1,200 African-American and Latino likely voters and four focus groups in Atlanta and Milwaukee.

"I think people are coming to grips that we can't address these issues in isolation," said Reggie Moore, director of Milwaukee's Office of Violence Prevention.

He also referenced the survey's finding of perceptions of 57% of African-Americans who "felt like the country did not care about the gun violence in urban communities."

[raybbr]

61% of African-Americans and 59% of Latinos say fewer guns on the street would improve the relationship between police and the communities they serve.

What does that even mean? It makes no sense at all.

[ronnie raygun]

Talk is cheap, the parents support this lifestyle, it begins at home or what ever place they call it

[ZULU]

No, addressing loaded penises and ovaries with no brains or responsibility is the key to the problem. Children having children and males screwing anything that walks and then walking away from the consequences and females of all ages willingly getting mocked up by multiple partners. And as long as we ignore this in discussions on this suject, they will win the discussion

[raybbr]

3. Many Community Members Carry Guns Because They Feel Unsafe Across the three convenings, many participants noted that people in their communities carry firearms for self-defense because they feel unsafe and do not believe the police can protect them. In Milwaukee, the discussion in one group noted that merchants who carry cash feel a need to be armed to avoid being robbed. In Stockton, Alejandra Gutierrez, the programs director for Fathers & Families of San Joaquin, reported that some youth she works with have said that “you can’t live in Stockton without a gun.” In Milwaukee and Stockton, participants with criminal justice system experiences expressed similar concerns, noting that while they want to comply with legal requirements that prohibit them from carrying guns, they do not trust that the police can protect them or their loved ones.

This lack of trust in the justice system also makes people more likely to use their guns. Dr. Adria Scharf, executive director of the Richmond Peace Education Center, noted that willingness to use violence is an adaptive behavior that some youth believe will protect them from being harmed. In Stockton, Rev. McBride corroborated these comments, noting that “people don’t trust the criminal justice system for justice, so they get it themselves.” Rev. Willie Brisco of Milwaukee observed that some youth believe that “it is better to be judged by 12 [jurors] than to be carried by 6 [pallbearers].”

They want it both ways. They can't attack the the police and then demand the police protect them. Every time a cop shoots a criminal they blame the police while at the same time blaming the police for doing nothing.

I read through the report which is here and it's compilation of doublespeak and gobbledygook that boils down to "give us more money to pretend we're going to do something about violence in our own way". Social workers and PR staff are making tons of money on that report.

[GOPJ]

"African-Americans and Latinos are painfully aware of the fact that they bear the brunt of violent crime in America," Flynn said in an interview.

Um mm, Blacks and Latinos CAUSE violent crime disproportionally. It's WHY they carry the 'brunt' of it. No pity here.

It's also the reason other races don't want to live near them or their 'communities'. It has nothing to do with 'color of skin'... they need to understand that.

Blacks and Latinos can start by 'snitching' on the lowlifes and drug dealers in their own communities. Then STOP glamorizing criminals and quit blaming everyone else for their own violence.

[trebb]

What does that even mean? It makes no sense at all.

I guess it might mean that 61% of African Americans and 59% of Latinos don't trust other African Americans and Latinos with guns..... and they know that if the bad guys didn't have the guns, the cops wouldn't have to shoot or arrest so dang many.

Hey - it was a statement about taking guns away from "people on the street" and needed to be in there for those that demand that the 2nd Amendment be erased....too bad for them that it is written indelibly in those who love Freedom....

[Yo-Yo]

No, EDUCATION is the number one issue in minority communities.

President Obama and the First Lady blew a golden opportunity to speak directly to the African American community to stress education as something worthy of achievement, not something that is “acting white.”

They could have pounded that message over and over again for eight years.

But instead the President is silent, except to act like a thug himself, and the First Lady attacks school lunches.

Disgusting.

[choctaw man]

For many, it’s grand sport to raise hell.

[Drew68]

Every time a cop shoots a criminal they blame the police while at the same time blaming the police for doing nothing.

Additionally, one thug can shoot another thug at a house party in front of 100 people and when the police show up to investigate, nobody saw anything.

[gartrell bibberts]

#8 is spot on. when those “comunities” stop demanding teachers “ like them” who have 700 SAT’s and are abismally ignorant ( bell curve - some are good) and RESPECT for laws, then things will get better. Ain’t going to happen so we can just pretend to care - and the providers of the soft sciences - psychologists, political scientists and social workers will make a good living- - while some fine people swirl around the toilet and disappear.

[Stosh]

At least in Chicago, the inner city residents hate the cops more than they hate the gangs - as long as that continues to hold true, it doesn’t much matter what anyone does about gun control anywhere, the bodies will continue to pile up.

[elpadre]

how many of these thugs were raised in a traditional family? How many graduated from high school? How many went to Sunday School in their formative years? How many ever played in a team sport without being kicked off the team? How many ever advanced beyond Tenderfoot in a Boy Scout Troop?

And how many are products of dysfunctional families?

I suspect there many zeros in the first paragraph and high numbers in the last.

[kearnyirish2]

Yes, I would think education and employment would be key issues in minority communities - then again, that assumes they want jobs.

[kearnyirish2]

We should never concede the definition of “family” to include a sow and her welfare bastards bred for cash; outside of the biological link, there is nothing that remotely resembles a family. There is no nurturing or rearing, no breadwinner, just gubmint money to pay all the bills.

The US taxpayers are the “fathers” in these cases; these aren’t “families” any more than 2 queers raising a child in which one’s sperm was used to fertilize a stranger’s egg would be.

[Lion Den Dan]

It is difficult for the most astute to recognise when they, themselves are the cause of a problem. It is much easier to blame an object or other person for the problem. Vermin.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Survey finds addressing gun violence key issue in minority communities

Those "communities" have a violence problem, period.

Guns have nothing to do with it. Violent people do violent things.

[Carl Vehse]

Getting rid of a defective subculture is necessary before the black-on-black crime will ever decrease.

[Wilhelm Tell]

Don’t address the thug lifestyle, gangs, broken families, bad schools where children are warehoused rather than educated and discipline is forbidden. The real cause inner-city “gun violence” is that law-abiding people can own guns.

[Ancesthntr]

Joyce Foundation involvement = automatic anti-gun BS. Pay no attention; better yet, do the opposite of what any such study of survey says.