{"id":2919,"date":"2021-10-21T13:33:02","date_gmt":"2021-10-21T13:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/?p=2919"},"modified":"2021-10-21T13:33:52","modified_gmt":"2021-10-21T13:33:52","slug":"carty-finkbeiner-calls-out-the-kapszukiewicz-administration-on-homicide-rate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/21\/carty-finkbeiner-calls-out-the-kapszukiewicz-administration-on-homicide-rate\/","title":{"rendered":"Carty Finkbeiner Calls Out the Kapszukiewicz Administration on Homicide Rate"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Carty Finkbeiner addresses Toledo’s violence problem<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Sojourner\u2019s Truth Staff<\/p>\n

Former Mayor Carty Finkbeiner, who is running for a fourth mayoral term, held a press conference on Algonquin Street, in front of the home of a recent shooting, to decry the current administration\u2019s handling of the recent surge in violence, particularly a homicide rate that could possibly top last year\u2019s record of 61 murders.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe most important statistic in the city has been and will be \u2026 55 murders to date,\u201d said Finkbeiner as he started to lay out a raft of statistics on shootings that have increased dramatically over the past two years.<\/p>\n

\u201cFifty-five murders, 2,200 shootings, 250 homes shot up,\u201d he said enumerating the violence that has plagued Toledo in 2021.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery neighborhood in our city is threatened,\u201d said Finkbeiner. \u201cNot just Swayne Field, not just Detroit and Monroe. It is every neighborhood in our city. Here, near where the mayor lives, where the law director lives in Old Orchard and the mayor does not want to talk about that.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is not the Toledo, Ohio people bargained for and not the Toledo, Ohio they will remain living in if we don\u2019t get things under control.\u201d<\/p>\n

Finkbeiner spoke of the toll that the current level of violence has taken on the economic condition of the city, particularly the decrease in business activity at the Franklin Mall \u2013 \u201cnot the same level of income because of too many shootings.\u201d<\/p>\n

The former mayor assailed the current mayor and the chief of police, George Kral,\u00a0 for not having a plan \u201cin terms of quelling the violence in Toledo.\u201d<\/p>\n

Finkbeiner and his supporters displayed a chart tracking the number of homicides in Toledo from the start of his third term in office, 2006, through the year 2020. According to the chart, there were 99 homicides during the four years of the Finkbeiner administration, 120 during the Mike Bell administration, 120 during the Michael Collins\/Paula Hicks-Hudson four years and 128 during the first three<\/em> years of the Kapszukiewicz administration. There have been 55 homicides already during the current mayoral term bringing the Kapszukiewicz total, for just under four years, to 183, with two and months to go.<\/p>\n

Finkbeiner highlighted his already announced 10-point program for dealing with violence by emphasizing that the city needs, among other issues, to form a collaboration between the Toledo Police Department, the Lucas County Sheriff\u2019s Department and the Ohio State Highway Patrol and to rebuild the Block Watch program.<\/p>\n

Finkbeiner emphasized that the overwhelming numbers of homicides are happening in the African-American community.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have demonstrated where my heart is by being a close friend to the African-American community and the Hispanic\/Latino community,\u201d he said before noting that the upsurge in murders in the African-American community is a fact \u201cthat I cannot tolerate.\u201d<\/p>\n

To that end, Finkbeiner urged city leaders to start \u201ctaking care of those with mental health and abuse issues.<\/p>\n

His 10-point plan, said the former mayor, \u201cis the only plan on the street today.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Sojourner\u2019s Truth Staff Former Mayor Carty Finkbeiner, who is running for a fourth mayoral term, held a press conference on Algonquin Street, in front of the home of a recent shooting, to decry the current administration\u2019s handling of the recent surge in violence, particularly a homicide rate that could possibly top last year\u2019s record of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,17],"tags":[],"wf_post_folders":[80],"class_list":["post-2919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headline","category-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2919"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2921,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2919\/revisions\/2921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2919"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=2919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}