Liberal Ideas That Don’t Work: Have a Block Party to Remember Those Lost to Violence

The result of this idea?  Nine shot, one fatally.  The cops have made zero arrests, “’cause snitches are bitches, yo!”

From Jacksonville.Com here:

One person was shot and killed and another eight were wounded when someone opened fire on a block party near McDuff Avenue north of Interstate 10 late Saturday night.

Police identified the deceased as 21-year-old Dominique Andrew Waters of Jacksonville. The shooting happened about 9:30 p.m. at the 200 block of Bronson Street. About 200 people were attending the block party, when someone began shooting into the crowd.

Eddie Diamond, who was not at the block party, said it was to commemorate other people who have been lost to violence.

Eighteen fire and rescue units responded to the shooting. “At a couple of points it was so volatile and dangerous we could not enter the scene,” Bracey said. “Police told us to stay out.”

For liberals, there is little point to prosecute crime, especially among the poor.  As long as those downtrodden blacks keep voting Democrat, that is all they care about.  What costs more?  A dedicated police task force to stamp out drugs and crime in a neighborhood?  Or a massive response of police to a mass shooting with helicopters and all of the city’s ambulances on site?

You can take a virtual walk around this sunny neighborhood thanks to Google Streetview.  As I looked at all of the boarded up empty homes, the bars on the windows of the few remaining open businesses, the trash in the streets-  it made me instinctively look for car doors to lock.  These guys, two blocks from the shooting, won’t even stop dealing drugs when the Google Street van drives by: