He said religious leaders wanted to send a message "that we want to stop homicide, violence and shootings of any kind of people, but especially we want to speak out on black-on-black shooting — hurting, harming or endangering one another".
There is a connection between the police's excesses in Chicago and their failure to stop the homicides.
"For homicide, if you start trying to revitalize a community, are you going to stop a homicide that would have been committed tomorrow?
And at the very least - both to stop domestic violence homicides and to show the victims of these crimes a modicum of respect - we can call the crimes what they really are.
"Smart personalized guns are the single most effective way to stop preventable gun homicides, suicides and accidents without any inconvenience to law abiding gun owners," Rosenthal said.
We see homicides stopped regularly, kids who never would have been reached engaged in programs, and parks and streets transformed into safe places to play.
In Cincinnati, where a police officer was charged with murder after being recorded shooting a driver during a traffic stop, the number of homicides through last week had reached 24, up from 22 last year.
Baltimore is declaring a ceasefire this weekend to stop a wave of homicides.
Next, the Citizen Review Board should also (frequently) publicly request information regarding police arrest, police-involved shoots, homicides, and police-stops.
Rosfeld, who shot Antwon three times as he was fleeing a traffic stop, now faces a homicide charge.
That despite the fact that the younger Scarpa had never been convicted of a single murder and his own father who had "stopped counting" after 50 homicides, got a virtual wrist slap sentence of 10 years from Jack B. Weinstein another judge in the same judicial district.
