Events over the past few months have shocked this community and gotten the attention of all who live here.
We have had nine murders in Coahoma County and Clarksdale since the first of the year with five of those homicides teenagers. Even worse police have only reported two arrests.
With that said your Clarksdale Press Register is proud to report city leaders have finally decided to come down on juvenile crime and hopefully stop this bloodshed.
We think the African-American community has put the heat on Mayor Chuck Espy to stop this insanity. We hope they won’t let up until the murders stop!
We hope Clarksdale will support this effort and realize our police are not the bad guys.
The ordinance the city has enacted says in black and white that parents have neglected their children in this community and are letting them run wild in the streets.
Parents need to take control of their children now. Parents need to show kids the Page One story about the new curfew. They need to keep it handy and shake it in their teenager’s face when those punks head out the door in a week or two.
Kids need to be reminded they can lose their driver’s license. Parents need to be reminded they can lose a couple of hundred dollars.
We hope our municipal judges will get serious about breaking up gangs in this town and punish those young thugs who don’t follow the rules by sending them off to get help.
Children who don’t follow the rules grow up to be adults who don’t follow the rules. And there is a place called Parchman just south of Clarksdale for those adults who don’t follow the rules.
We hope single moms will seek help with getting control of their young men and women before it’s too late.
Our police department can point you in the right direction for resources and solutions.
We hope absentee dads will get back in the picture and realize real men raise real men they can be proud of - men we can all be proud of.
Let’s get tough on crime in Clarksdale this summer. Our children and our future are at stake.
