Milwaukee county's new D.A., Kent Lovern, was not challenged in this interview; as a result, he came up with a lot of gooey loving spoonful malarkey.
Re "# 1 thing to accomplish right away":
We have to continue to tackle very quickly the violent crime problem we’re facing in the community. I would say the other issue that is of deep concern to me personally has been domestic violence. We’ve seen a high rate of domestic violence homicides over the last several years.
Well, OK.
Re 'how will you act differently from Chisholm':
... we have to continue to be very very responsive. We’ve had prosecutors in the neighborhoods for a long time now that have done really great work intersecting with neighborhoods and the police departments in those neighborhoods.
I think we need to take that to another level and build on that and connect people in neighborhoods who are concerned with safety, but maybe aren’t connected to economic opportunity....
The Shiny Object emerges!! "Economic opportunity,", you see! This will become the mantra for evading responsibility.
Re 'what is driving violent crime'?
...We have to continue though to look at some of the gaps we see in our community. Gaps related to poverty, gaps related to home ownership, because what we do know is the neighborhoods that have a homeownership, and high rates of family sustaining jobs do not have high rates crime....
Same Shiny Object.
Lovern wants the reckless driving to be treated as a violent crime. Sounds good, no? Except there's this problem of the State criminal statutes--which have to be stretched a long, long, way to get "violent crime" out of a reckless driving complaint.
That's the second Shiny Object.
Will he throw Chisholm, a notorious Lefty, under the bus?
Hell, no!
....we don’t sentence people, but in terms of the recommendations we make in court that reflects that there needs to be a strong response to that type of behavior....
Milwaukee and suburban residents have waited for 20 years for a "strong response" to that behavior. Chisholm didn't really give a flying damn; he never went to the Legislature to scream bloody murder about inadequate laws. He was happy on S. Superior St., far from the slaughterhouse of Milwaukee's north side.
And the final Kum-By-Yah:
...What we need to do in this community, in my view, is we need to better connect with one another and to the good work that is on going on in a lot of places in this community right now. We are small enough to do that. We are a small, major league, NBA city here and that’s our advantage at my standpoint, that we need to make the most of here....
How sweet!
Looks like another 20 years of holding hands and swaying to Kum-By-Yah with the Coke song.
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