Local: ‘Enough is enough’
Posted in Local with tags crime, Mario McGee, No Love on February 14, 2009 by Billy DennisI’ve seen this scene before.
A young person is killed. The killers are (probably) other young people.
Friends and family gather and they demand change. They say this is tragedy that will start the change.
And each time I hope it is.
I don’t have any special insight into how to fix what is wrong. I think it’s going to involve a lot of tough love from moms and dads. I think its going to have to involve a lot of honesty and not so much posturing.
The numbers are showing that things are getting better. But Mario McGee is not a number. None of the victims are.
The people who run in the “No Love” gang are outnumbered by the people who attended this rally. When you count the police, “No Love” is both out numbered and out gunned. Add the court system to the fight, there is no way “No Love” could survive.
But the community doesn’t trust the police. The police and the prosecutors don’t get along. The criminals game the court system with ridiculous ease.
So “No Love” and others like them run the streets of Peoria. And there will be more rallies.
