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Article: CeaseFire is ineffective
- Article from:
- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- September 1, 2007
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Seemingly daily, but most certainly weekly, it is reported that
our neighbors have been killed or shot due to escalating violence
throughout our city and state.
And yet it is continuously reported that CeaseFire is "immensely
successful" and has "helped Chicago dramatically reduce its murder
rate." Independent data compiled by Northeastern Illinois University
states just the opposite, that "in many of CeaseFire's targeted
areas, violence has increased."
Marches after shootings, a proliferation of posters and millions
of dollars spent on bumper stickers stuck to poles coupled with
statistical reports did not stop the bullets that took the young
life and wounded her friend in Roseland this ...