🚀 go-pugleaf

Cincinnati Police are getting ready for a spike in crime. On the West side, police and city leaders are focusing on ways to reach out to teens - to keep them off the streets. 

Local 12's Angenette Levy was there as leaders discussed their plan on Tuesday night.

Police on Cincinnati's West side say they've identified 150 teens who are suspects in robberies. Police say it's a problem they can't arrest their way out of. Now as we get closer to the summer months, police are trying to find new, creative ways to reach out to teens - to keep them off the streets.

The flashing lights of police cruisers are a familiar sight in some West side neighborhoods. Police say teens in gangs are often at the center of the crime. Capt. Russ Neville: "Ours are specific to robberies and large disruptive crowds." 

District Three Commander Captain Neville says teens committed nearly 40 percent of the robberies in District Three- driving down the quality of life in neighborhoods like East Price Hill. Patti Hogan is a resident. "It has a devastating effect on the businesses, it has a devastating effect on the people that just want to go out and walk." 

Police on the city's West side held a strategy session with juvenile court judges public defenders, Cincinnati school officials, clergy and others to come up with ways to get teens in trouble on the right track. Judge John Williams: "Most of the kids that go down a criminal path are not appropriate in terms of grade level, and that starts with truancy, it starts at home with some times a kid doesn't want to go to school." 

Police want to conduct truancy sweeps and crack down on teen curfew violators. The goal is to show teens there's another way - starting with this meeting.   "I think the very critical piece was there was very open communication with the juvenile courts." 

Patti Hogan adds, "I think it's gonna to take pastors, it's gonna take the schools, it's gonna take everybody to make it happen." 

There was some discussion about reaching out to probation officers who are particularly effective in dealing with teens. and, getting kids involved in activities and helping them get jobs. So, this is still a work in progress. 

Cincinnati Police hope to hold another meeting soon to discuss more ideas for reaching out to teens.  

<Nigvid at site>

http://www.local12.com/news/local/story/Cincinnati-Police-Ready-For-Summer-Spike-in-Crime/9iaNGdAAHEWgy65bNlbf-w.cspx


--- news://freenews.netfront.net/ - complaints: news@netfront.net ---

Shooting ferals should be a priority. Catch those bastards before they
breed.

Judge gives man consecutive sentences for "M'uh dicking"

CINCINNATI �A man who admitted to committing sex crimes on and around 
around the University of Cincinnati campus was sentenced Friday.

A judge sentenced Walter Alexander to two five-year sentences, then 
ordered them to run consecutively.

Alexander previously pleaded guilty to four of 10 charges against him in a 
series of incidents that took place in 2012.

Prosecutors said Alexander touched women inappropriately in Calhoun and 
Siddall Halls and touched another woman in the area of the 
College-Conservatory of Music.

"(He was) grabbing students inappropriately (and making) unwanted advances 
in some cases and entering rooms that were unlocked," UC Police Chief 
Michael Cureton said at the time.

In court, Alexander apologized for his actions and thanked the judge for 
giving him the opportunity to seek help for his problems.

<Nigvid at site>

Read more: 
http://www.wlwt.com/news/local-news/cincinnati/Man-sentenced-for-string-of-UC-area-sex-crimes/-/13549970/19331964/-/kg1xa9/-/index.html#ixzz2Nf8TsrMV