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Toledo Escorts: End gun violence
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Gun violence in metropolitan Toledo is out of control. But solutions are highly complicated and will take years to implement.
This year, there were more than 120 shootings in Toledo between early June and mid-November, despite a police crackdown over the summer that resulted in 891 arrests and 36 gun seizures between June 28 and Sept. 1.
Although the total number of slayings in Toledo isn’t far off from previous years, more have involved guns. The gun-homicide rate in 2011 might surpass the 2007 record of 77 percent.
The problem is not confined to seedy neighborhoods inhabited by drug dealers, prostitutes, pimps, and thieves, nor will it go away on its own. Budgetary crisis or not, city leaders must confront this issue with urgency and resolve.
See the full article from “Toledo Blade”