Shreveport police pay raise vote postponed

 

Shreveport Times, Aug. 27, 2008 

Shreveport police won't be getting a much-discussed pay raise -- at least not yet.

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While the Mayor and his Police Chief claim violent crime is down in Shreveport, the people know the truth 

 

(ShreveportBlue.com, Posted: August 8, 2008)

In response to a story in The Shreveport Times August 7th about an 18-year old boy being shot in the head as he rode his bicycle on Linwood Street, a reader left these comments. 

 

readingjojo48 wrote:

My in laws lived in this area for over 50 years just one block over on Melrose. I lived on Harrison and then Argyle just a couple of blocks over. We used to walk these streets day or night going to the store and never even gave it a second thought. Everyone knew their neighbors and the homes and yards were well kept and no one worried about crime.I still just can 't believe this area is full of crime and run down with drugs and shootings all the time. It didn't have to end up this way but it did just like so much of Shreveport. This is why so many people have moved out of Shreveport including me.
8/7/2008 11:46:29 PM

 

Another shooting two hours earlier and one mile north left a 16-year-old boy dead in the street. 

 

The Times reported that Kenneth Taylor "is at least the 19th person to die violently in Shreveport this year, although the number of homicides remains below the number between January and the beginning of August in 2007."

 

If Taylor is "at least" the 19th person, does that mean The Times and/or the police chief somehow lost track of the number of murders? Have the newspaper and police administration become so desensitized to the "routine" of reporting homicides that this boy's death is somehow not so significant? Is the newspaper or the police chief suggesting that even though this is possibly the 19th homicide this year, everything is still okay because the murder rate is still lower than this time last year? 

 

To the Mayor and the Chief, ShreveportBlue asks:  Don't the comments from readingjojo48 (above) bother you? 

 

The people of Shreveport are afraid in their own homes and its time for city leaders to do something. And "doing something" doesn't mean standing before TV cameras in the middle of crime scenes appearing concerned and issuing empty statements like this old favorite from Chief Whitehorn, "Anytime we lose a life, whether it's through violence on the streets or a fatality crash, it's a sad day for Shreveport." 

 

To the Mayor and his Chief, we suggest listening to the sounds of the people rather than the echos of your own voices.

 

Something has to be done   

(Posted:  May 2008)  

 

The good people of Shreveport can no longer stand by and watch while our city and our people suffer from violence, crime, drugs and a political structure that favors the criminals and their defenders. Someone has to do something. 

 

 

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