The idea is to identify those at high risk of gun violence, connect with them and immediately offer services, and to rely on law enforcement as a last resort, Focused Interruption founder and CEO Anthony Cooper Sr. said. The initiative would be implemented by Public Health Madison and Dane County’s Violence Prevention Unit, according to the group....
Police Chief Shon Barnes said there is more work to be done, adding that the department welcomes assistance from Public Health and Focused Interruption. The cycles of violence underscore racial inequities, with Blacks more likely than whites to be victims and to become ensnared in the criminal justice system, according to Focused Interruption....
The proposed spending for the Gun Violence Reduction Strategy, which would cover pay for people with lived experience in violence; training and technical assistance from national experts; input from the community most affected by violence; and programming, could eventually become a $3.38 million effort to more fully address the problem, Cooper’s group estimates.
Here's the Focused Interruption website.
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We aren't a serious people any longer. This is nothing but a grifting operation by Cooper and all the other people involved in this "Focused Interruption" company.
$3.38 million to replace the fathers that Great Society policies ensured would have no part in raising their kids, and left a legacy of fatherless kids in the next generation.
It's almost like 'inequities' is just a code phrase for "the logical and fully predictable result of Democrat social welfare policies since 1965".
---The idea is to identify those at high risk of gun violence
Better turn yourself in, shootist!
So yet another 'non-profit' that gets millions from democrat politicians.
Blah, blah, blah.
Just another nosy, surrogate government group with boots on the ground, poking their noses into other peoples' business.
How long until we find out that the founder is related to the mayor, or some other incestuous relationship.
It's just another giant grift...same as it ever was.
$3.38 million could buy a lot of full-time police, plus upgrade their facilities and materiel.
The wording from the article is confusing. "The idea is to identify those at high risk of gun violence, connect with them and immediately offer services, and to rely on law enforcement as a last resort,..."
Are they talking about potential victims (everybody) or more obvious victims (Black people in poor neighborhoods)? Or are they talking about the potential perpetrators whom they see as 'victims' of an unjust society?
They are right: Blacks are more likely than Whites to be victims of violence. They are also more likely to be the perpetrators of the violence. And while this is a serious issue with our society, it's taken us decades to develop and systematize this permanent underclass. Big and small city leaders have all had a hand in it. They've been part of the problem. It won't be erased quickly and it won't be dented at all by adding non-governmental feel-good groups to the county payroll.
What is needed is economics. Businesses to open and be allowed to operate in these cities, without having to allow mass shoplifting, and without having to worry about people fearing to come to their neighborhood. And Parents. Two of them per household, with a hands-on interest in the education of their kids. Until these things happen, the rest is just pissing in the wind.
Somebody will makes some serious money from this and it will have no effect, as usual with leftist solutions.
Althouse writes, "I'm trying to read 'Madison, Dane County consider focused effort to address surge of gun violence'."
I understand why Althouse uses the word trying. The mysterious internal operation that transforms ink on paper into thought that we call reading is being constantly interrupted by her brain's logic processing unit shouting What the fuck? What the fuck? What the fuck?
BLM and defunding the Police not mentioned?
The cycles of violence underscore racial inequities.
The cycles of violence underscore that, for whatever reason, Madison blacks are a lot more violent than Madison whites. But, hey, let's blame "racial inequities"? That's white people's fault. Yeah, that's the ticket.
Focused interruption sounds pretty accurate.
Let's get this slush fund rolling and release Team Clipboard!
If there's someone shot in your neighborhood,
Who you gonna call? Team Clipboard!
If there's someone dead and it don't look good,
Who you gonna call? Team Clipboard!
They ain't afraid of no Crips.
They ain't afraid of no Bloods.
If you just got grazed up beside your head,
Who you gonna call? Team Clipboard!
An aggressive man jumping in your bed,
Who you gonna call? Team Clipboard!
"The cycles of violence underscore racial inequities, with Blacks more likely than whites to be victims and to become ensnared in the criminal justice system"
The Devil's Right Hand theory of urban violence.
When they say "individuals at the highest risk of gun violence" they mean the individuals who are shooting people, right? I think the shootee occupies that vaunted position.
can they focus-edly interrupt gun violence without being armed themselves?
will be interesting to see.
"pay for people with lived experience in violence"
Dane County - Danegeld - I get it now.
When I see “lived experience,” I hear “Scam.”
...pay for people with lived experience in violence
Nice town you've got here. Would be a shame if something were to happen to it...
How about throwing the book at the criminals you catch?
The cycles of violence underscore racial inequities, with Blacks more likely than whites to be victims and to become ensnared in the criminal justice system
Interesting phrasing. You could say anyone who commits any violent crime and goes to prison or jail has "become ensnared in the criminal justice system." The word "ensnare" suggests catching someone in a trap, and we say that someone who's arrested and goes to jail has been "caught," so maybe the wording is appropriate.
"Personal safety in a nation which prizes individual Liberty is ultimately the responsibility not of government but of the individual Citizen." - Xavier Onasis
It's always Gun Violence as if there is no human pulling the trigger. Because it is absolutely verboten to have an honest conversation about the actual people doing the shooting.
But hey, it makes $$$ for those who can come up with a catchy new program on which govt can lavishly spend dollars.
And the problem is never solved.
They keep referring to "people at highest risk of gun violence" and in reading their materials I was confused whether they were referring to the victims or the perpetrators.
Just who is in need of of "supportive services such as job placement or training, mental health treatment, legal services, and childcare"? Their "highly trained Outreach Team, many of whom who have lived experience with violence and incarceration, provide ongoing mentoring, life coaching and dispute mediation to people at highest risk of community gun violence", sounds like something more suited to shooters than shootees.
Keeping violent criminals in prison for their full term will go along way to reduce gun crime. Sentencing violent criminals to complete their prior convictions in full consecutively followed by the current conviction will go even further.
"The idea is to identify those at high risk of gun violence[.]" The article does not say whether that is at risk for *committing* gun violence or *being the victim of* gun violence. Neither does the Focused Interruption website. It seems pretty important, and the vagueness makes me think it must be *committing.*
I am happy to see a program that focuses on where the problem of gun violence exists. I have seen statistics that show that without the gun violence of America's 10 largest cities, the rate of gun violence in America is on par with European countries. And we know that gun violence in those 10 cities in concentrated among primarily black people. So a program that focuses on where the problem exists is a big step in the right direction.
I also think that America could reduce gun accidents by simply requiring gun owners to take gun handling and safety classes sponsored by the NRA and other responsible organizations. Many gun owners do that now.
Michael said...It's always Gun Violence as if there is no human pulling the trigger.
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But never "Knife Violence!" etc.
TL;DR - Dane County wants to spend $3.38 M in taxpayer money to tell young black men not to shoot other people.
Tough break for Kerida O'Reilly who was found not guilty of assault by a jury of her peers in Madison yesterday and will not have the lived experience of violence on her resume and thus will not qualify for the job opportunity.
My guns are very well-behaved. Only once has of my guns participated in any sort of gun violence.. it was fired upon by two other guns, and tried to defend itself.
Now, my cars on the other hand are not so nice. Over my lifetime my cars have several times been involved in totally random and senseless acts of Car Violence, usually as the victim, but I must confess at least once or twice as the aggressor.
As a former police officer, I saw a great deal of Car Violence, almost every day. Cars would get all liquored up on Friday and Saturday night and attack each other, pedestrians, and even trees and buildings. Try as I might, I could never understand the root causes of such behavior. Yes, we had laws against Car Violence, but clearly more legislation is needed.
From the post:"The idea is to identify those at high risk of gun violence,"
From the website:"Ensure that those at highest risk of committing community gun violence receive individualized outreach and programming"
Yep risk of committing
Critter writes, "So a program that focuses on where the problem exists is a big step in the right direction."
...then a giant leap in the left direction followed by a fatal plunge into the pit of Perdition.
Every time the soi-disant progressives get their bloodstained mitts on the reins of power the problem, whatever it is, is exacerbated, not in any way solved or even reduced. Their solution is to subsidize the behavior that creates the problem. Too many children being raised in poverty by single mothers? Fine, reward them to remain unweb and tax them if they dare break away from the pathology. Granted, there's less poverty, though the ratio of taxpayer dollars spent to reduced poverty is outrageously thin, there are also more bastards predisposed to future poverty. (Bastard is a perfectly suitable word and no one should be ashamed to use it in this context.)
The "progressive" solution has another consequence, though I am not convinced it is unintended; bastard boys rarely have strong relationships with their natural fathers so they seek father figures elsewhere. Neighborhood gang chieftains gleefully fill that void as it helps them recruit juvenile assassins to carry out the interminable violence organized crime inevitably spawns.
Anthony Cooper proposes to award cash, money involuntarily excised from responsible people who work, to people with lived experience in violence. Ignoring the clumsy style, let us ask ourselves why Cooper chose such an obtuse formulation. What does lived experience mean? Does it include victimizers as well as victims, people on both sides of the gun? Every honest person knows it does, disguising that fact is the purpose of Cooper's obfuscating language. No doubt those millions include substantial tribute for Cooper personally -- skimmed right off the top, as the dons used to say.
Fuckus Interruptus, eh?
So, Gertie and Gussie go to town on Saturday afternoon to get their picture took. It's the latest thing.
As they settle before the backdrop and make sure they are ready, the photographer has ducked under the cover and begins adjusting the lens.
"Why so long?" murmers Gertie.
"First he's got to focus," explains Gussie.
Gertie ponders. "Focus? Bofus?"
Sounds like profiling.
I would personally like to see more murderers get "ensnared" in our criminal justice system.
Looking for some mention of research or data which might support Focused Interruption's ideas, they said:
"Since introducing its evidence-based violence reduction plan in 2012, Oakland has decreased annual shootings and homicides by 50%."
Homicides in Oakland:
2010 95
2011 110
2012 131
2013 92
2014 86
2015 83
2016 85
2017 72
2018 75
2019 78
2020 109
and Oakland has had 102 homicides in 2021 as of 27 September:
"With just over three months left in the year, Oakland is on pace to tally around 20% more homicides than in 2020, with last year already marking an uptick from the year prior."
20% more than 109 = 131, the same as in 2012.
John Althouse Cohen @ 12:58: “… The word "ensnare" suggests catching someone in a trap,”
Yes. I think the writing is deliberately vague and we should read this word, “ensnare,” as barring the attribution of any responsibility to the one so caught. A fine example of the passive usage, showing us a world where stuff “just happens.” See also “systemic racism” where all blacks (and whites) are merely benighted victims in need of a few hundred years of psychotherapeutic intervention to be supplied by Ibram Kendi and his ilk.
From the website re the founder -- "Aaron’s desire to help people in the community started while he was incarcerated. He started to notice a lot of the struggles people were having were similar to some of his own experiences and so he shared with the men in prison how he was able to overcome some of his issues, while at the same time learning the Bible. Aaron has been able to use these two components as tools, as they have been influential to his life and the lives that he had the privilege to be a part of on his journey."
How do the Madison progressives process the fact that the minority owned and run organization they will be paying millions uses the Bible as a "tool" Heads exploding.
Seattle and King County have been funding "homeless activists" for 16-years to "eliminate" homelessness. It's worse than ever. The funding has created a Homeless-Industrial Complex that consumes hundreds of millions of dollars every year without accomplishing anything.
Seattle and King County even hired a homeless-czar to oversee everything. He was interviewed on one of the local talk shows. He's a fool who couldn't put a cheese sandwich in a brown paper bag.
>>He's a fool who couldn't put a cheese sandwich in a brown paper bag.
He got hired for a $200,000 per year (plus perks) salary and controls a budget north of $132 million. The local media call him a "rock star".
I wish I was that foolish.
Wisconsin! Smell the Dairy Air
Don’t burden cops with “gun violence.”
Speech is violence. Guns are… I’ll get back to you.
The world..
The idea is to identify those at high risk of gun violence.
That would be "criminals" for both perps and victims.
Milwaukee:
"However, O’Brien said a closer analysis of non-fatal shootings during a six-week period in July and August 2011, when non-fatal shootings increased, found that suspects had an average of 7.5 prior arrests and victims had an average of about six."
"For all homicides in 2011 -- those involving guns and those that didn’t -- 57 percent of the 72 suspects and 62 percent of the 66 homicide victims had at least six prior arrests."
in Chicago they came up with Mutual Combat - so no charges.
a few days of year should be National declared MutualCombatDay
should be fewer to ensnare after that.
That kind of money could buy a gun for every negro in Dane County so they can protect themselves.
Chris Rock has the solution in his helpful video "How Not to Get Your A** Kicked by the Police":
His first rule?
"Obey the Law"
It really is that simple.
A more concise option for 'focused interruption' would be
interdiction.
Perhaps that term is found unfavorable?
Narayanan: "a few days of year should be National declared MutualCombatDay."
Pleeeease. We prefer 'The Red Hour.'
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