Columbus is suing a Franklin County judge for failing to move ahead on its lawsuit against state over gun violence. The city has no room to talk.
Mayor Andrew J. Ginther, in an emailed statement, goes on the record about gun violence.
"We cannot forget that the people who have died by gun violence are not statistics," he said."They were fathers and mothers, sons and daughters, people who shopped beside us in grocery stores and sat next to us at churches and mosques." The year ended with 143 people slain in the city. It was, at the time, the most killings in a single year in Columbus on record.In a letter to then-Gov. Kasich, Ginther, Klein and Council President Shannon G. Hardin write that they would"lead boldly and without reservation to reduce gun violence. We urge you to join us."Columbus files the suit that McIntosh has not ruled on."Solving this crisis is not easy," Ginther said.
In one positive development, he announced that David Kennedy, a criminologist at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York will spearhead a six-month analysis to pinpoint who is causing the violence in Columbus and then work with the city to stop it by reducing street-level beefs among groups of people. The approach, known as Group Violence Intervention or GVI,At the Franklin County Coroner's office, Dr.
"We have had 9 homicides this week alone," she said via Twitter."Where are the city leaders? Why is the solution to always hire a consulting firm? While the leadership of this city continues to drag their feet people continue to die."Ortiz again:"And the violence continues. Virtual town halls, speeches by the mayor, none of these address how to deal with the problem right now! Violence erupts in Columbus overnight with 7 separate shootings.