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Saturday, March 31, 2007
Complete Citicable Coverage: Law and Public Safety Committee on CMC 910-23
Posted by The Dean of Cincinnati
Cincinnati Municipal Code 910-23, the anti-marijuana law, gets pushed through committee despite over 50 activists showing up to protest!
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02 Apr 2007 at 02:16 am | #
The chief sure is proud of his 5 to 1 return on what the department had to spend on defending this ordinance. He didn’t mention that he created 2017 criminal records, mostly young black men, and their lives will never be the same. I hope the high and mighty council is happy with the impact they have had on these criminals. That coupled with the pressure applied to landlords about renting to the new criminals and the 3CDC plan is nearly complete. Countum and moveum
02 Apr 2007 at 10:13 am | #
I’m confused by this video. We first have the police chief telling us how effective this ordanance is at reducing crime and how it has made Cincinnati safer. Then we have a citizen that states stats for 2006 show an increase in Murder of 16%, Robbery of 44%, and Violent Crimes that are gun related up 27%.
Someone is not telling the truth. You cannot have it both ways. Did crime go up or down in 2006? The first quarter of 2006 must have been really busy to change the numbers so dramatically.
Can someone help me understand the difference?
03 Apr 2007 at 08:57 pm | #
It depends on what you consider a crime.
This oridinace has not slowed down murders, but it has got a lot of young black men busted for marijuana. Young black men that will now be denied school loans and decent jobs because they did the same thing that their white suburban counterparts did.
So it does not stop serious crime, but it does stop the crime of being black.
After watching the video, Holbrook gets my vote.
07 Apr 2007 at 02:09 pm | #
Dean,
Can you get citicable video for a comm mtg Berding chaired, on March 19, or tell us how to do so? I saw the mtg on cable and Berding was beyond rude to Thomas and other comm. members. The inquisition that CHRC was undergoing was a topic.
08 Apr 2007 at 09:45 pm | #
I talked with Paul Green about this. I think it was his testimony about the increase in violent crime that you saw. He, before he testified, had asked CPD for the number of crimes committed by guns and these had gone up. The chief was talking about a group of crimes that are often used as an index to crime activity. These include larceny and auto theft, crimes that are generally not committed with a gun. These crimes went down.
So it seems to be a case of carefully selecting the data one wants to present. When council first passed the enhanced penalties they were talking about how it would help lower the murder rate. But that didn’t happen in 2006, nor did gun crimes as a group go down. So the police chief found a set of crimes where the numbers did go down and then council said, retroactively, that that was the criteria about which they had been talking. The whole thing reminded me of Winston Smith in the Ministry of Truth in George Orwell’s novel 1984, where his job was to continually rewrite history so that it conformed with present policies—oops! I mean Winston Smith had to correct errors that had crept into the historical record.