mmnews...A stop the violence cookout to bring the yoof together??? LOL WTF? The yoof already come together at partys and street corners. Then they sell drugs and commit crimes. And all your BAR B Q is going to do is FEED them for the day! Its a FREE party and I mean FREE in every sense of the word! In fact you bar B q will probably LEAD to crimes after these animals feed and wander off back into the jungles of cincinnasty...They aint going to speak against gun violence. They will be looking to buy/sell guns and drugs....And as for your comment that "groups are working very hard and need our help"..Guess what so are the police at trying to solve the crimes that these animals you are about to feed commit and HAVE INFORMATION about, but WONT help the police solve them. Why don't you get up on the mic at your bar b q this week and tell them you need their help with a long list of unsolved crimes in the city and would like for them to form a line and give what info they can to help the police...And see how that goes over!!!... I have aquestion about your bar b q..Fisrt July 10th is a friday. What are the hours for the bar b q? Oh nevermind I was going to ask if it was during the day because everyone has to work and would miss it. But then I remembered where it was and who it was for.

naistewart-I wish you the best in life I have read your comments and I think you are a warm and good person and hope you and your family will be ok.

It's all about the drugs. When can we force these thugs into a military style boot camp and make them work for once in their lives? They need 5 year birth control shots too.

I'm glad our coroner said Cincinnati is safe. Not for my family.

mmnews-Please help out what more can we do we feed them house them.No one help me and hundreds of other people who work pay thier bills my kids all came out ok by me working saving taking care of them.Most of these people don't even care for thier selfs won't work sit around all day smoking dope.To hell with them get a damn job we all did.WE didn't have to shoot anyone for what we got in life.If i help anyone it will be someone who lost thier job not someone who never work a hard day in thier life!!!

Can we start only reading about these types of crime once a month, simply give us the body count. It seems waste of space showing these murders every day.

I think the police should be permitted to do some after-hours driveby's in OTR... They know where the problems are and only lead therapy can cure it....

Responsibility lies on the person at the center of the problem. No one else is to blame for the animalistic behavior which takes place in OTR. No "help" is needed down there. Help is what got this group of people where they are today. These people don't know what it is to earn or work for something. They are very dangerous and unpredictable and fueled by the most basic of instincts. Let them fend for themselves and natural selection will run its course. If anyone thinks that one day these people will change because you "helped" them....you are a fool....they will cut your throat/shoot you in the head without a thought.

mmnews... that would also be called a parenting role! I think many of us are so tired of hearing all the bad and dangers in OTR that it has become a joke. The citizens of OTR need to be the ones to clean their streets and not expect help of others. A system of socialistic values and handouts proves time and time again that it doesn't work.

People act like animals when they dont know how to act any other way, and in our modern "politically correct" society we are no longer allowed to address the problem as it lies, and instead are forced to look at what the "system" can do to fix it, or where it has gone wrong. Its not the "system"(s) fault, it lies directly on a word called "responsibility", which for some reason some people are unable to take. Enough of the "system", and how it has failed people. Plenty of people have their hardships and struggles....and in some cases (throughout history) some have been the target of complete annhialation (see WWII) you dont see those people running around acting like animals killing each other in their own streets because they have had some historically difficult times. When is society going to wake up and stop prancing around our "violence" problem? It's one thing in war to have to resort to violence (to protect freedoms and property and often times lives) but another in your own neighborhood to act like idiots...