Gilead
Abortion
Fig. 1. Sign at demonstration in front of the U.S. Supreme Court, May 3, 2022. Janni Rye, via Wikimedia Commons, Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication.
There is a new blog post entitled, “A ‘C’ grade for Ruth Marcus on abortion rights.”
David G. Savage, “Supreme Court says it cannot determine who leaked draft abortion opinion last year,” Los Angeles Times, January 19, 2023, https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2023-01-19/supreme-court-did-not-find-leaker-of-abortion-opinion
Ruth Marcus, “Does Dobbs violate the establishment clause?” Washington Post, January 20, 2023, https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/01/20/abortion-dobbs-establishment-clause-sotomayor/
Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh
Unauthorized violence
Fig. 1. “Ed Gainey poses with CeaseFirePA during the 2020 Women’s March in Downtown Pittsburgh.” Photograph by Megan Gloeckler, undated, via Pittsburgh City Paper,[1] fair use.
Pittsburgh Mayor Ed Gainey said one thing.[2] When it comes to unauthorized violence, Pittsburgh’s city government is doing something entirely different:
That’s included a move toward returning to and reversing some practices: Some city council members want to explore enforcing an existing but not used curfew for kids and young teens, and Pittsburgh police have resumed making traffic stops for minor violations, something banned by a 2021 city ordinance.[3]
These are practices that 1) don’t work,[4] and 2) fail to address underlying causes.[5]
So what’s it going to be, Gainey? Will you be stupid? Or will you be smart? Because what we’re seeing here is textbook purely the former.
Megan Guza, “Experts and research cast doubt about Pittsburgh leaders’ efforts to quell recent surge in violence,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, January 22, 2023, https://www.post-gazette.com/news/crime-courts/2023/01/22/pittsburgh-police-violence-teens-solutions-city-council-curfew-traffic-stops/stories/202301220036
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, “2 critically wounded in shootings on the South Side,” January 22, 2023, https://www.post-gazette.com/news/crime-courts/2023/01/21/pittsburgh-police-investigate-2-shooting-scenes-south-side/stories/202301210097
South Side
Fig. 1. Jack’s Bar. Photograph by User:Piotrus, December 2007, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.
About 9 p.m., officers from the Zone 3 station responded to a report of a gunshot victim near a parking lot and Monongahela River overlook area known as Color Park near South Fourth Street. The park is a gathering spot for young people and graffiti artists.[6]
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, “2 critically wounded in shootings on the South Side,” January 22, 2023, https://www.post-gazette.com/news/crime-courts/2023/01/21/pittsburgh-police-investigate-2-shooting-scenes-south-side/stories/202301210097
- [1]Charlie Wolfson, “Neighborhood groups try to curb shootings as Pittsburgh’s mayoral campaign puts political focus on gun violence,” Pittsburgh City Paper, October 20, 2021, https://www.pghcitypaper.com/pittsburgh/neighborhood-groups-try-to-curb-shootings-as-pittsburghs-mayoral-campaign-puts-political-focus-on-gun-violence/Content?oid=20401296↩
- [2]David Benfell, “To Pittsburgh Mayor Ed Gainey,” Not Housebroken, October 30, 2023, https://disunitedstates.org/2022/10/30/to-pittsburgh-mayor-ed-gainey/↩
- [3]Megan Guza, “Experts and research cast doubt about Pittsburgh leaders’ efforts to quell recent surge in violence,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, January 22, 2023, https://www.post-gazette.com/news/crime-courts/2023/01/22/pittsburgh-police-violence-teens-solutions-city-council-curfew-traffic-stops/stories/202301220036↩
- [4]Megan Guza, “Experts and research cast doubt about Pittsburgh leaders’ efforts to quell recent surge in violence,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, January 22, 2023, https://www.post-gazette.com/news/crime-courts/2023/01/22/pittsburgh-police-violence-teens-solutions-city-council-curfew-traffic-stops/stories/202301220036↩
- [5]Steven E. Barkan, Criminology: A Sociological Understanding, 3rd ed. (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education, 2006); Wanda D. McCaslin and Denise C. Breton, “Justice as Healing: Going Outside the Colonizers’ Cage,” in Handbook of Critical and Indigenous Methodologies, Norman K. Denzin, Yvonna S. Lincoln, and Linda Tuhiwai Smith, eds. (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2008), 511-529; Jeffrey Reiman, The Rich Get Richer and The Poor Get Prison, 7th ed. (Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 2004).↩
- [6]Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, “2 critically wounded in shootings on the South Side,” January 22, 2023, https://www.post-gazette.com/news/crime-courts/2023/01/21/pittsburgh-police-investigate-2-shooting-scenes-south-side/stories/202301210097↩