He was turning his life around

[Rivers of Blood]

SPRINGFIELD — Both Jermalle Brown and Douglas Bufford were gang members hired to play a small role in helping combat violence on the South Side through a program hatched by Gov. Pat Quinn’s administration.
Paid $8.50 an hour with taxpayer funds to hand out anti-violence pamphlets in their South Shore neighborhood, the two low-income teens were part-time foot soldiers in the governor’s $54.5 million Neighborhood Recovery Initiative, a program he once described as “a comprehensive and concerted effort to keep our young people safe, off the streets and in school.”

But instead of embodying a bold new way to fight bloodshed on the South Side, Bufford is now dead, and Brown is charged with his murder, putting a dramatic and deadly new blemish on the one-time Quinn showpiece, which was pilloried last week in a report by Auditor General William Holland.

“The South Shore community [has] some fine outstanding young adults and youth who are not criminals. Why aren’t these kind of people selected to represent the South Shore Chicago?” Olson wrote in the email, which was obtained by the Chicago Sun-Times.

http://politics.suntimes.com/articl...ogram-accused-teens-murder/fri-03072014-106am

 

[ntomsw]

I think the OP is racist.

 

[barnabus]

I guess he didn't read the pamphlet.

 

[71montess]

We have a country in denial ! Full retard denial !!!

 

[frenchman]

I'm convinced none of the pamphlets he was supposed to distribute made their way to a new owner.

Picking up pamphlets=>dropping them in the next dumpster=>claiming to have them distributed=>grab $68 for a job well done=>rinse and repeat! or get ganked in the process.

 

[RHJJ]

1 dead one going to prison, great ending for them.

 

[Zappa]

“The South Shore community has some fine outstanding young adults and youth who are not criminals.

But the vast majority overshadow the small minority.

Why aren’t these kind of people selected to represent the South Shore Chicago?”

Ever try to find a needle in a haystack ???

 

[Fixxah]

Quick, print more pamphlets.

-Proud to be dad every day, a licensed plumber most days, and wish I was a shoemaker on others.

 

[ClickBoom]

Maybe the pressure of having such a highly skilled job just got to them, most likely they tried to read what was on the pamphlets they were giving out and got into a fight trying to figure out what the word Violence means.

Tim

 

[Bendad97]

You can imagine my surprise...

 

[mke0039]

shocking

 

[center442]

Well, with one dead and another probably going to lockup, there will be two less thugs on the street, so in a roundabout fashion the program does cut down on violence. Sometimes things work, just not the way they're intended to.

 

[Palladin]

Well, with one dead and another probably going to lockup, there will be two less thugs on the street, so in a roundabout fashion the program does cut down on violence. Sometimes things work, just not the way they're intended to.

This.

It's a win-win!!

on the flip side, how do you possibly spend $54 Million on something like $8.50/hr handing out flyers. The should have carpet bombed the South side with them

 

[cyberlogicx]

1 dead one going to to get continued welfare for the rest of his life, great ending for them.

FTFY

 

[ccm75]

Dude was trying to distribute pamphlets on his corner!