#6 According to the Cincinnati Enquirer article linked by the Daily Mail, the Cincinnati police will increase their numbers in the neighbourhood after this latest incident, adding:
Long said the neighborhood has experienced “disproportionately high” levels of gun violence, but the city’s efforts to combat violence there – including a months-long investigation into a concentrated area of crime on Livingston and John streets that led to the closure of a liquor store – have led to some results.
I’ve met Mayor Aftab Karma Singh Pureval, and Mr. Wife knows him fairly well. He is the child of immigrants — father Indian, mother a Tibetan refugee — and was educated locally in public schools and universities. After the usual lawyerly pre-politics experiences, he spent three years at Procter&Gamble working with the business side of the company. He is handsome, charmingly friendly, and quite interesting to talk to. One of those well-intentioned suburb-reared liberal Democrats of colour, so he does quite well in Cincinnati city and county elections. Whether he’ll be able to parlay that into a seat in Congress when he is ready to try again remains to be seen, as does whether he’ll be able to improve anything in the city other than increase spending. |