Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto speaks at a press conference on Monday, April 19.
Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto joined with law enforcement and community organizers to address a recent surge in violent crimes. During a press conference on the North Side, city officials said that there have been 20 homicides this year, a spike of 80% from the same time last year.
Peduto called on corporations to “invest back into the neighborhoods” by offering jobs to those who need the opportunity most.
“We are not going to solve this by just putting more police officers on the streets,” Peduto said. “This is solved by giving people opportunity that they do not have right now.”
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Six people have been killed after 17 shootings throughout Pittsburgh since April 3, part of a surge of violent crime in the city this year, officials said Monday.
As of Monday, police have investigated 20 homicides and nearly 50 non-fatal shootings in 2021, according to numbers provided by the city’s Department of Public Safety.
The statistics represent an 80% increase in homicides and a 90% increase in shootings when compared to the same time frame in 2020.
It’s part of a national surge in violence, but “this is not Pittsburgh,” police Chief Scott Schubert said in a statement. Police responded to three shootings Sunday night and Monday morning that left one man dead and four others injured.
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The union that represents the Pittsburgh police is appealing the firing of an officer who has been in trouble dozens of times on technical grounds.
Fraternal Order of Police Fort Pitt Lodge No. 1 filed a petition to vacate last month’s arbitration award, which found in favor of the City of Pittsburgh’s termination of former officer Paul Abel.
Abel was fired in December. He has been the subject of several investigations by the Citizen Police Review Board and has been sued multiple times, including in a case involving a man’s death in December 2002.