{"id":6339,"date":"2024-05-23T16:38:13","date_gmt":"2024-05-23T23:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manoamanofc.org\/aboutus\/?p=6339"},"modified":"2024-05-27T01:54:04","modified_gmt":"2024-05-27T08:54:04","slug":"analysis-of-gun-violence-report-presented-by-salem-police-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manoamanofc.org\/aboutus\/2024\/05\/analysis-of-gun-violence-report-presented-by-salem-police-department\/","title":{"rendered":"Analysis of Gun Violence report presented by Salem Police Department"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Our Executive Director, shares his analysis of a 2023 report (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cityofsalem.net\/home\/showpublisheddocument\/21233\/638357460757370000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>) presented by the Salem Police Department on November 20, 2023, at a special work session of the Marion Public Safety Coordinating Council. Please go to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salemkeizer.news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Salem-Keizer Proletariat<\/a> page (or click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salemkeizer.news\/p\/salem-oregon-gun-violence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>). Salem-Keizer Proletariat is a great source for independent analysis of local news and issues. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The key point of the analysis is that, as presented, this report,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Fails to address what impact, if any, the COVID-19 years and related closures had on community violence or data collection &#8212; for example, the COVID-19 years had the lowest rates of gun violence, but the report doesn&#8217;t directly address how it was achieved<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Focuses heavily on Latino juveniles, though they are only involved in only 17% of incidents, and most incidents actually involve adults over the age of 30<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>lays out the justification for returning to 1990s era Zero Tolerance suppression tools that effectively criminalized youth of color in Salem-Keizer;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>justifies increasing the size of the local police force while at the same time local cities and school districts are being forced to reduce behavioral supports for youth;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>as with previous spikes in gun shootings, the report&#8217;s recommendations are such that could result in effective suppression, that is, reduction of gun shootings, without addressing long term root causes; this approach will almost guarantee another spike in violence in a few years<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"rise-blocks-section-block-instance-0-967ad020-0dc0-4585-90d9-8958589bf597\" class=\"wp-block-rise-blocks-section\"><div class=\"rise-blocks-boxed rise-blocks-section-wrapper\"><div class=\"rise-blocks-section-overlay\"><\/div><div class=\"rise-blocks-section-inner\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-1 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>On February 15, 2024, The Salem Reporter, a local newspaper, presented a townhall to address community violence where Mano a Mano&#8217;s Executive Director shared his analysis of the report. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Salem Reporter Town Hall: Gun Violence\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TGYIQBOn8wE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Townhall on Gun Violence, by The Salem Reporter streamed live on CC Media on 02-15-2024<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Executive Director, shares his analysis of a 2023 report presented by the Salem Police Department on November 20, 2023, at a special work session of the Marion Public Safety Coordinating Council. Please go to the Salem-Keizer Proletariat page. Salem-Keizer Proletariat is a great source for independent analysis of local news and issues. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5761,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,5],"tags":[32,23,24,47,48],"class_list":["post-6339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-charlas","category-local-news","tag-justice","tag-latinos","tag-oregon","tag-violence","tag-violence-prevention"],"rise-blocks_total_comments":0,"rise-blocks_categories":[{"term_id":27,"name":"Charlas","slug":"charlas","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":27,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":5,"count":5,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":27,"category_count":5,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Charlas","category_nicename":"charlas","category_parent":5},{"term_id":5,"name":"Local News","slug":"local-news","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":5,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":5,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":5,"category_count":5,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Local News","category_nicename":"local-news","category_parent":0}],"rise-blocks_excerpt":"Our Executive Director, shares his analysis of a 2023 report presented by the Salem Police Department on November 20, 2023, at a special work session of the Marion Public Safety Coordinating Council. Please go to the Salem-Keizer Proletariat page. Salem-Keizer Proletariat is a great source for independent analysis of local news and issues. 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