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Young men pulled from his
car for driving with cracked windshield

In today’s newspaper there is one inch of a column mentioning that a 28 year man (not identified) was shot and killed in North Central Milwaukee yesterday. In another one inch of a column is the name of a man shot and killed on Thursday in North Central Milwaukee. Yet there is a headline, front page article with pictures on how police are using ballistic technology to develop leads on homicides during this year of rising crime in the city. Also there in TV news last night and tonight mention was made of on a nearly three hundred thousand grant given the Milwaukee Homicide Commission to identify and capture violent offenders in the city. Other methods of capturing people who commit violent crimes are on the increase, from hiring of more police for areas of crime to more cameras to capture crimes to towers that can detect where guns are fired from. As more and more money and work is put into capturing criminals the more violent crime we have.

While it may be important to capture people who commit violent crimes it is more important to identify and correct the persons before they become offenders. Politicians, Police, Agencies and citizens know that the conditions that produce crimes are high unemployment, sense of homeless, dysfunctional families, mass incarceration of nonviolent offenders, poor educational systems, lack of healthy food, extreme poverty, poor housing. However, money spent in these areas is decreasing in Milwaukee as it becomes harder and harder in Milwaukee to be poor and a minority person. We seek to identify violent offenders but fail to target young person with services before they become offenders.

When we have an ecumenical prayer vigil at site of a homicide victim any family and friends are asked to say something positive about the dead person. Almost always they talk about the sense of humor of victim, how they laughed and made them laugh. The person becomes a human being instead another statistic in a one inch column. Many of these family and friends have experience more than one homicide victim and fear for their own lives.

Neighbors in North Central and South Central Milwaukee are rapidly increasing in human impoverishment while more and more resources and money are put in capturing offenders. I heard of a city in California that reduced significantly its high crime rate. The police chief decreased the stop and frisk of African-Americans and a city commission, independent of police, identifies youth who are in a potential situation to be an offender and pays them for education, food for family and more. Investment in crime prevention works and pays a greater return than an investment in capturing offenders.

We all know that we cannot change a person directly but we can create an environment where it is easier to be good. All homes should have beds to sleep on, stove and refrigerators to store and keep food yet that resource is becoming more difficult for poor families to have. We need to be investing in correcting conditions, like extreme poverty and racial segregation that make it more difficult to be good. Yet we rather capture offenders rather than prevent persons from being offenders. “When will we ever learn?” “Let those who have eyes to see, see and ears to hear, hear.”

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