Shooting Prompts Call for Cooperation

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There's people around all the time when these things happen and they don't talk and still they want help, but we need your help. That's why some of these things are so hard to solve," [Janine Davis] said. "There's all kinds of ways you can get that information out and I don't know why they don't, but I wish I could convince them to. You have to take some responsibility for your neighborhood."

"We're hearing now, this has been going on for sometime and the police aren't up there;' that's not true," Davis said. "I didn't know this was going on; I didn't know there were problems with kids in the park. Had we known prior to this unfortunate incident, we may have been able to intercede in some way."

They feel like 'we're forgotten up here' and there's a need for it now, but there's always a need," Davis said. "What we find is when everything is calm in these areas, the attendance in these meetings dwindles and then when there is an incident we have an outcry from the public. Without these meetings we don't necessarily know what the depth of the problem is."

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Shooting Prompts Call for Cooperation

In a courtyard scattered with broken glass, residents of the Sugartop area of the Hill District rallied for increased police presence in their neighborhood. The event on July 9, led by ACORN, took place in Robert E. Williams Memorial Park where 22-year-old ...

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