Sad way to start 2023

[AV8R]

It’s not Rita Ali who is responsible. It is the political party to which she belongs. This problem could be addressed but democrats won’t. Their survival and cling to power is more important, and that requires them to keep blacks on the plantation.

[DennisinPeoria]

So ALL the Council members of the Peoria City Council are Democrats? News to me, especially since that council is elected in a non-partisan fashion. And the crime issues have been going on a lot longer than the 2 years she's been in office.

Rita does not write, pass all the ordinances on her own, it requires a majority vote. If taxpayers were willing to pay extra taxes to have police on almost every block, crime would still happen.

If a neighbor or family member doesn't know that an angry person is going out to shoot someone, how do you expect the Mayor and Council to stop them?

[Tazewell]

So ALL the Council members of the Peoria City Council are Democrats? News to me, especially since that council is elected in a non-partisan fashion. And the crime issues have been going on a lot longer than the 2 years she's been in office.

Rita does not write, pass all the ordinances on her own, it requires a majority vote. If taxpayers were willing to pay extra taxes to have police on almost every block, crime would still happen.

If a neighbor or family member doesn't know that an angry person is going out to shoot someone, how do you expect the Mayor and Council to stop them?

Your arguments are lame, and you have used them many times before. We've also told you many times before how she is in a unique position that no other Peoria mayor has been in with regard to the rampant crime in the city. You continue to keep your head firmly planted in your behind on this issue.

[Toldyouso]

Rita does not write, pass all the ordinances on her own, it requires a majority vote.

This is true. What ordinances has Mayor Ali proposed to the council to stop the murders by young Black men (and boys!) in Peoria?

[Tazewell]

Rita does not write, pass all the ordinances on her own, it requires a majority vote.

This is true. What ordinances has Mayor Ali proposed to the council to stop the murders by young Black men (and boys!) in Peoria?

Good question! These people still don't seem to understand the influence she has as a black woman to turn things around. I'll repeat for the umpteenth time, she can say and do things that previous mayors couldn't as they would have been accused of being racist.

[AV8R]

So ALL the Council members of the Peoria City Council are Democrats? News to me, especially since that council is elected in a non-partisan fashion. And the crime issues have been going on a lot longer than the 2 years she's been in office.

Rita does not write, pass all the ordinances on her own, it requires a majority vote. If taxpayers were willing to pay extra taxes to have police on almost every block, crime would still happen.

If a neighbor or family member doesn't know that an angry person is going out to shoot someone, how do you expect the Mayor and Council to stop them?

I was referring to the overall democratic party platform nationwide. Handouts keep blacks on the "plantation" more than anything else, and we all know who the party of handouts is. There are a lot of successful blacks in every walk of life who will tell you the same thing, with the obvious exception of black democrats in Congress. They are benefitting from it, and in my opinion are the worst kind of hypocrite. They thrive off the suffering of other members of their own race.

[DennisinPeoria]

1st time I've heard that "handouts" is part of what's causing people to go out and shoot people. So what's causing white people to go out and shoot or kill if they're not getting the same "handouts"? Example: the grandson.that killed his own grandmother out near the airport. The white couple that starved their 8 year old son to death, were they getting handouts? The 15 year old white teen from Mackinaw that hired others to kill her mom and dad, (dad survived) does she receive handouts? Are they on a "Democratic Plantation" also? Is the Democratic Party "handing out" guns too?

[AV8R]

1st time I've heard that "handouts" is part of what's causing people to go out and shoot people. So what's causing white people to go out and shoot or kill if they're not getting the same "handouts"? Example: the grandson.that killed his own grandmother out near the airport. The white couple that starved their 8 year old son to death, were they getting handouts? The 15 year old white teen from Mackinaw that hired others to kill her mom and dad, (dad survived) does she receive handouts? Are they on a "Democratic Plantation" also? Is the Democratic Party "handing out" guns too?

I am flummoxed by your loyalty to a political party you are so ignorant of. [REMOVED BY MODERATOR]

[Toldyouso]

PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD) — A North Valley man has been booked into the Peoria County Jail for murder in connection with a double shooting that occurred on Thursday evening.

Ronnie L. Simmons, 21, of the 1200 block of Northeast Madison Avenue, was booked into the county jail just before midnight Friday on charges of first-degree murder, aggravated battery, aggravated unlawful use of a weapon and armed robbery.

Killed was a 25-year-old man. Another man, 26, suffered non life-threatening injuries. The identity of the man who died will be released later by the Peoria County Coroner’s office.

The shooting death is the city’s 11th homicide of the year.

Peoria Police investigating two men shot
At about 6:15 p.m., Peoria police responded to the area of Madison Avenue between Laveille Street and Spring Street on a report of two people being shot. There, officers found a vehicle which had been struck by gunfire. Various items of evidentiary value were collected at the scene, according to police.

In a news release, Sgt. Amy Dotson, a police spokeswoman said, there was no alert from the ShotSpotter gunfire detection system. Rather, officers learned of the shooting scene from a phone call from a resident

[AV8R]

11 homicides at midyear...how does that compare to previous years?