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Extra money for extra patrols and door-to-door visits to troublemakers - undercover cops could be anywhere. Police and the community are fighting back against gangs causing problems in Price Hill. As Local 12's Deborah Dixon tells us in a story you'll see only on Local 12 News, the plan is strategic and data-driven. 

The plan is 24 hours a day. Some of it people will see, some they will not. The message is simple: thuggery will not be tolerated. 

Here's what people will see: cops on bikes, segways, saturating East and West Price Hill. Good people love it, law-breakers will find it annoying. "You have some arrest warrants out for you, huh?" 

In East and West Price Hill, where summer in the city has punky neighborhood gangs looking for power with firepower, shootings are taking a toll on the neighborhoods. A 14-year-old girl was caught in the crossfire of two gangs. It's getting on Captain Russ Neville's last nerve. Captain Neville says, "I'm putting those involved in groups preying on those who want to live in peace this will not stop." 

The 60 people on new fliers will get home visits from members of Cincinnati's Initiative to Reduce Violence just to let them know police know what they've been up to, and they're being watched. And there is something else - that street code of silence, don't be a snitch thing? Not going to work anymore. Cincinnati Lt. Don Luck says, "If you are a victim of felonious assault and don't wish to cooperate, then you will be targeted, whatever your behavior making you not cooperated, need to get you off the st
reets as well." 

Patti Hogan of East Price Hill says, "That are we really threatening them, can't lock them up anymore, justice system won't take them, just throw them back in the neighborhood." 

Hogan likes the plan, but worries about too few consequences. The plan takes that into consideration. "If have to do it again will, they will not become comfortable victimizing innocent people." 

The last part of this plan is a huge cleanup. People who live here and city departments just coming in for a clean sweep, a whole psychological thing.

http://www.local12.com/news/local/story/Price-Hill-Fighting-Back-Against-Gang/tRx0WV6t7kucJCK02kGiWw.cspx


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