| Cincinnati Enquirer: Crime's up and arrests down |
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| Written by Jeff Garvas | |
| Thursday, 30 January 2003 | |
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Cincinnati officers arrested almost 30 percent fewer suspects - about 18,000 people - last year, compared with 2000. Emergency calls increased more than 17 percent and violent crimes - murders, rapes and aggravated assaults, for example - jumped 40 percent. The increase in crime doesn't surprise Stefanie Sunderland, a Northside resident who has been crusading on behalf of her neighborhood. She sees it every day. "I think what's happening is just appalling," Sunderland said. "Basically we have given people license to commit criminal acts in our neighborhood without repercussion. "We might as well put up a sign in the neighborhood and say, "Welcome criminals." Uhhh, Stefanie...due to the unconstitutional ban on carrying a concealed weapon for self-defense, Hamilton County, and the entire state of Ohio, are already hanging a sign that says "Welcome criminals". And Bob Taft laments at the decline in revenue from tourism? Click here to read the entire story from the Cincinnati Enquirer. |