Mayor Bowser recognizes gun violence as a public health crisis, launches prevention program
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser signed a Mayor’s Order recognizing gun violence as a public health crisis and announced the creation of an emergency gun violence prevention center at a situational update on Feb. 17.
The order comes as a response to a spike in gun violence in D.C. last year and establishes the Gun Violence Prevention Emergency Operations Center (EOC), which is part of a new gun violence prevention program known as Building Blocks DC. According to the situational update presentation, while violent crimes from 2016 to 2020 have generally gone down, gun crime trends have gone up. 922 people were shot in D.C. last year, and 198 people were killed. Acts of gun violence and homicides disproportionately impacted the Black community. In 2020, 95 percent of homicide victims were Black, and 160 of the 198 homicide victims were Black men.
Red light cameras on Thunder Bay City Council agenda
Thunder Bay city administration is recommending council approve the installation of red light cameras at 10 city intersections.
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Thunder Bay City Council will consider the installation of red light cameras at 10 Thunder Bay intersections at its Monday meeting.(Dan Taekema/CBC)
Thunder Bay city administration is recommending council approve the installation of red light cameras at 10 city intersections.
In a report to be presented to council on Monday, administration states the cameras which are integrated into traffic lights and are designed to capture images of any vehicles running a red light have been shown to reduce the number of right angle, or T-bone collisions at intersections.
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Search By Live95 News Team (via Getty Images) Residents in a housing estate in Limerick are fed up with problematic drug dealing in the area, according to a local councillor.
Locals from St Mary s Park told the Irish Examiner it s operating like a 24/7 drugs supermarket .
In a statement, Chief Superintendent with Limerick Gardai Gerry Roche said the force will be relentless in tackling drug gangs in the area.
Sinn Fein Councillor John Costelloe however says that isn t what he s seeing:
Meanwhile Limerick TD Maurice Quinlivan raised the matter in the Dail today criticising the responsible ministers for failing to act so far.
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Washingtonians have many reasons to be mad as hell about their lack of autonomy former President
Donald Trump’s ability to deploy the city’s own National Guard to suppress a crowd of peaceful protesters, over the objections of Mayor
Muriel Bowser, is one that immediately comes to mind. But the fight for self-determination is not just motivated by the events of the past year, when the threat of Trump taking control of the D.C. police sometimes felt imminent.