City of Tacoma announcement.
TACOMA, Wash. — “I am saddened to hear of the four homicides that occurred over the last week and am reminded that we must continue our efforts to prioritize violent crime reduction. Violent incidents cause ripples of trauma that affect the families of those impacted, and the community at large.
“Every resident deserves to feel safe in our city, and I remain committed to actions that will make Tacoma the safest city in the world, including investing $372 million in community safety in the budget we will consider tonight and supporting Police Chief Avery Moore in advancing the Violent Crime Reduction Plan.
“We ask that you continue reporting what you see so we are tracking the right data, and that you continue to engage with us and hold us accountable as we work to achieve our shared community goals.
“I invite those interested in learning more about our plans to address violent crime to visit cityoftacoma.org/crimereduction.”
Send the social workers and de-escalate the criminals like you promised. How about resignation and disappearing from the public?
Excellent point Michael leones mayor woodards owns the violent crime increase.
We will not have peace until we all turn to God and ask Jesus to come into our hearts.
Dave, you are correct, but until that happens law enforcement needs to focus on the small minority of individuals who are committing the vast majority of all crime.
By ignoring lesser crime and focusing only on violent crime, is to skip opportunity before tragedy strikes.
Mayor Woodard, as newly elected president of the National League of Super Duper Mayor’s, what will you be sharing with your colleagues?
Need to clean those Encampment off 82nd Hosmer they have had numerous of complaints
Nothing being done
Now that are over by the New Best Western Hotel
They can’t even run there business
Come on now
From her political profile it appears that Mayor Woodards, like many liberals and “progressives”, emphasizes social and cultural evolution (revolution) rather than dealing with actual human nature and behavior. It may be commendable to try and achieve “equity” in society but that overlooks human nature to excel beyond mediocrity or in some cases be satisfied with something less than mediocrity. Social worker approaches to crime may appear “kinder and gentler” but may actually be crueler to society when criminals lose their fear of consequences. Mayor Woodards is dealing with that now with these recent murders! Mayor Woodards must first deal with the reality of human nature and she will find that social and cultural evolution tends to take care if itself. Politically directed social and cultural change is difficult at best and takes generations to accomplish if at all. The former Soviet Union is a perfect example: it tried for nearly 70 years and failed.