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Streets turn less mean if there’s work
By buffalonews.com - Rod Watson
Published: 01/03/2013

Are Buffalo police and prosecutors doing a worse job than a year ago? Have teddy bears, flowers and prayer vigils lost their potency?

Are Buffalo’s community groups more ineffectual?

It’s worth asking only because a year ago at this time, when the city was celebrating a dramatic drop in homicides, all of the above were credited. v But with murders up by 39 percent – to 50 – in 2012, it’s obvious that creating more joint police strike forces, praying harder and holding more street corner news conferences are not the answer.

All can help, and no one argues against law enforcement’s effort to rescue neighborhoods that deserve help.

But such efforts are mere fingers in the dike if hopelessness breeds others ready to step into the vacuum that good police work creates.

What can work? In a word: jobs.

Arlee Daniels, a former gang member who now mediates gang disputes and steers members into training, said that a lot of the murders result when convicts get out of prison, can’t find work and then try to reassert themselves on the street.

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