Cleveland City Council members are calling on the mayor and police department to do something to stop the violence in the city, while residents just want their neighborhood safe again.
CLEVELAND — Frustrations about violence in the city are boiling over at Cleveland city council, and council members continue to look to the mayor and the police department to do something to stop the crime while residents just want their neighborhoods safe again.
“I think, for one, doing something about the gun situation is to either get weapons, you know, automatic weapons and things like that,” said resident Ted Smith.Polensek says there have been 101 homicides this year, which means Cleveland is on track to break a 30-year high. The council has reached out to the mayor's office multiple times asking to be a part of the conversation when it comes to hiring more officers and curbing crime, but they have seen no plans of action.
“Tackling violent crime is a multi-pronged approach — not just law enforcement, not just the investment we’re making in neighborhoods, but we need better legislation at the state and federal level to get illegal guns off our streets,” Bibb said.“There has been carnage every week in this city, every other day in this city, and yet it took a shooting on West 6th. 'Now we are going to do this'...
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