By: Diane Benjamin

Very brief agenda! The committee Alderman Mollie Ward insisted on after gunfire came through her home is giving a report tonight. In case you forgot: https://blnnews.com/2024/08/20/safe-communities-in-sick-societies/

It looks like this committee is now permanent since the term of some appointees doesn’t expire until 2027. (PDF page 26)

Meeting Agenda: https://bloomingtonil.portal.civicclerk.com/event/1023/files/agenda/7957

Report from the Special Committee on Safe Communities: https://bloomingtonil.portal.civicclerk.com/event/1023/files/attachment/2531

Government can’t legislate morality.

Government can’t parent kids.

Browse through the report. There aren’t any brilliant plans included to keep people from shooting each other or themselves. Of course they want more money to “fix” the problem. See the yellow highlighted lines.

Meanwhile, people caught with illegals guns have been released without bail. Illinois contributes to the problem.

It doesn’t help that little information has been released about the recent murder on Fox Creek Rd. Saying there is no threat to the public isn’t adequate.