The problem has never been a lack of ideas, or even a lack of money. The problem has been the insistence that only one idea is the right idea, that only one philosophy can be the right philosophy, that it’s more important to be right than to find what works.
Crime
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Boy bites would-be Whitemarsh kidnapper, escapes
Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police are trying to identify and locate a “man in an unusual van who was reported to have attempted to pull a child into his truck this morning,” […]
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Editor’s Note: Too little, too late on ‘taboo issue’?
After years of sticking their heads in the sand, City Council last week hosted a Call to Action Summit.
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State violence & the ‘new Jim Crow’
Citizen violence is treated differently from state violence.
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East Broad bus stop shooting investigated
Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police are investigating the shooting of a man at a bus stop this morning. Juan Ulmer, 39, of the 1000 block of Porter Street said “he was sitting […]
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Editor’s Note: Consulting on crime
Savannah has known literally for decades that the most immediate cause of gun violence here—in addition to larger sociocultural issues—is a relatively small group of chronic violent offenders.
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One dead, two injured in Georgetown domestic shooting
Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police are investigating a triple shooting, including a fatal self-inflicted wound, after a domestic incident Tuesday night. John Richard “Rick” Morris, 41, died at Memorial University Medical Center […]
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31 felons, 20 guns off the streets in police op
One of the initiatives by the Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police Department to address recent crime created 35 arrests and recovered nine weapons this weekend. The Violent Crime Task Force conducted 15 […]
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12-year-old shot and killed during party
Detectives of the Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police Department are sorting out details and are seeking information on the fatal shooting of a teenager Saturday night. Keith Passmore, 12, of the 5600 […]
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Connect editor in Georgia Public Broadcasting segment
Connect Savannah Editor in Chief Jim Morekis joined South University Criminal Justice Professor Tom Cannon this morning in a statewide interview on Georgia Public Broadcasting’s ‘On Second Thought.” They talked […]
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Another child shot; man sought after domestic dispute
Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police are seeking a Savannah man after a six-year-old girl was shot in a domestic dispute this morning. Brandon Maurice Stewart, 20, is being sought “after detectives determined […]
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Chief Lumpkin’s statements on toddler’s murder
Wednesday afternoon, new Savannah/Chatham Metro Police Chief Jack Lumpkin issued the following statement on the shooting death of two-year-old Kiaja Smalls, when her Southside apartment was apparently intentionally targeted in […]