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Go for it Gavin

By Jonathan Simor

Frustrated with the SF's continuing homicide spike, Mayor Gavin Newsom is reported (see Jaxon Van Derbeken's article in today's SFChron) to have ordered drug investigators to drop their cases and hit the streets of the city's high violence neighborhoods. Unlike our national and state leaders, Mayor Newsom cannot ignore violence in his city. He is said to have been particularly roiled by the murder of anti-violence activist Terrell "Terray" Rogers outside a girls basketball game last Saturday.The Mayor is absolutely right to recognize that stopping the violence is far more important than drug investigations; or for that matter investigating the survivors of the Christmas Day tiger attack in a misguided effort to pin the death of 17 year old Carlos Sousa on his friends (that investigation has also thankfully be shelved according to another story by Van Derbeken)...continue to full post

Full post as published by Governing Through Crime on January 19, 2008 (boomark / email).