City Considers Contingent to Learn How to Reduce Murders
Sarasota's City Commissioners are considering sending community leaders and law enforcement to a city that has proven it can reduce murder rates during a sustained period to replicate that success here.
Sarasota Police Chief Mikel Hollaway doesn’t want to talk to a consultant to figure out how to stop Newtown’s violence. “After 30 years of this, I’m not impressed by consultants,” Hollaway told the Sarasota City Commission Tuesday night. “I don’t really want to talk to David Kennedy.” Kennedy is the man who Commissioner Willie Charles Shaw says is one of the main components in helping develop a permanent solution to Sarasota’s crime and homicides. Sarasota had seven homicides in 2011, all in Newtown, but the crime spills out throughout the region and four additional homicides in 2011, one of which a murder-suicide, took place in unincorporated Sarasota. One additional murder in Sarasota city limits was considered self-defense. Shaw is …
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waldron4sheriff
2:00 pm on Monday, January 9, 2012
I agree with Chief Mikel Hollaway. Instead of wasting money with outside consultants or taking trips to other cities the city of Sarasota needs to look within. As a former Detective with the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office Violent Crime Task Force and a current candidate for Sheriff in Manatee County I have worked with the Officers and Detectives of the Sarasota Police Department and the Sarasota… more ›