3News Investigates exclusive series A Tale of Two Cities : Rising violence, falling arrests in Cleveland
The city saw its homicides surge to 177 in 2020, but police solved less than half of those cases. Author: Rachel Polansky (WKYC), Phil Trexler Published: 10:28 PM EST February 10, 2021 Updated: 1:55 AM EST February 11, 2021
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Crime is up during the COVID-19 pandemic, across the nation and here in Northeast Ohio. Thursday begins our two-part series A Tale of Two Cities, in which we investigate why crime is growing in both Cleveland and Akron and what we can do to stop it.
3News investigator Rachel Polansky kicks off our series in Cleveland.
In-Depth: Local youth outreach agencies address growing teen violence
Local youth outreach agencies address growing teen violence
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CLEVELAND â The Boys and Girls Clubs of Northeast Ohio are urging local leaders to work on a comprehensive plan for better community outreach to curb growing inner-city teen violence.
Jeff Scott, President of the Boys and Girls Clubs of Northeast Ohio, said he is heartbroken over two shootings that claimed the lives of 15-year-old Anthony Hughes Jr. and 13-year-old Ja-mari Jones over the past week.
Police reported Hughes Jr. had just left a Boys and Girls Club location when he was shot by someone on Dec. 9 near the intersection of East 55th Street and Scovill Avenue.
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Mt. Pleasant NOW, the area s community development corporation located off Kinsman Road in Cleveland, has been the site of violent crimes in the past. Mt. Pleasant NOW and other organizers in the city say they haven t given up on launching the Ten Point Coalition crime reduction program.
Back in 2018, former Cleveland mayoral candidate Robert Kilo and pastors from the Mt. Pleasant neighborhood were joined by Indiana-based representatives of a violence reduction initiative to announce its launch in Cleveland.
The program never took hold in Cleveland, beyond some initial media exposure.
“I think anytime something new is introduced to a city like Cleveland that s been doing things a certain way, it can create potential challenges,” Kilo said. “But I would suggest it just hasn t been the right timing previously.”