Putting More People in Jail Won’t Reduce Crime in Dallas. Will Violence Interrupters?
If the city wants to reduce violent crime, it needs to try alternatives to mass incarceration. We talked to the head of a nonprofit bringing violence interruption to Dallas.
By Alex Macon
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April 20, 2021
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Policy makers can’t always agree on the best approach to reducing violent crime. But in Dallas, city leaders increasingly seem to understand that we do know what
doesn’t work: putting more people in jail. What’s needed instead is investment in what advocates call a community-based continuum of care. “This is a big pendulum shift. This is not how things have historically been done in Dallas,” says Gary Ivory, president of the national nonprofit Youth Advocate Programs. “We’re finally turning the tide on the mass incarceration that has happened in this country the last 50 to 60 years.”
Vicious Cop Killer Compared to MLK Jr in Oakland California Schools
Oakland California schools, where crime and poverty are rampant, had, until yesterday, a lesson plan posted on their website which asks students to draw parallels between late civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., a peace-loving man of God, and racist cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal. Mumia Abu-Jamal, an unrepentant cop killer, murdered an innocent police officer, Daniel Faulkner, in cold blood after a traffic stop in 1981.
For some inexplicable reason, Mumia is idolized by the radical left.
Maureen Faulkner, Daniel Faulkner’s wife, calls it an “absolute disgrace” and a “travesty.”
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Pastor K.O. Noonoo, who was recently selected to lead Topeka s Westminster Presbyterian Church, didn t intend to pursue ministry when he moved to the U.S. from Ghana in 1990.
In fact, when he settled in Jamestown, North Dakota, to attend what is now known as the University of Jamestown as an international student, Noonoo planned to study computer science. I soon discovered, though, that I did not start (computer) programming early enough, so I opted for something called management information science, he said. It had enough business in it, not too much programming so I could make that work.
He graduated with that degree; married his wife, Anna, in 1995; and moved to the Chicago area to start a family. He also began studying for the certified public accountant exam.