Policy proposal said to include anti-gang mentoring and after-school activities
How do you know Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is short (no pun intended) on ideas to stem gun violence? He pitches some of the same old policies that have proven to not work in the past. On Monday, Emanuel asked Illinois lawmakers to increase the minimum prison sentence?for gun crimes to three years. The proposal is part of a larger assortment of efforts that include more mentoring, after-school programs, policing and early childhood education. Gang-related gun violence contributed to more than 500 deaths in Chicago last year. The announcement comes after the weekend burial of 15-year-old Chicago high school majorette Hadiya Pendleton, who was mistakenly shot in a gang-related retaliation a week after she took part in inauguration festivities in Washington. The two men arrested in connection to the crime ? Michael Ward, 18, and Kenneth Williams, 20 ? are alleged gang members, police said, and one of them had been granted probation on a gun charge last year. The problem with filling up prisons with more young black men is that it has long been proven ineffective at stemming gun violence, stimulating the economy or educating and rehabilitating the young men. Someone should tell the mayor to think more about his increased ?mentoring? proposals and less about the prison industrial complex. (New York Times)
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