So how do you think Peduto doing as Pittsburgh's mayor?

[Copanut]

Originally Posted by erieguy

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Catia again

Copy that.

[fleetiebelle]

Originally Posted by tyovan4

^ Do you think things may change under Coghill's representation, instead of Rudiak's? Have you noticed any difference?

If she's in the same part of Mount Washington as Grandview Park, that's Bruce Kraus, not Coghill.

[gladhands]

Originally Posted by Catia

I am a city resident.
I am not pleased with Peduto, it's a laundry list of things I am unhappy with.
I could go on with a long ranting post, & I know MANY city residents that are not a part of this forum, who do not post online, older citizens who've been here lifelong who fully agree with me. Inner city residents all of them. This forum doesn't represent the full voice of all residents of COP so I'll skip most of it & just sum it up as short as I can.


Initially, I was happy & very hopeful to have him, thrilled actually, as were many of my friends/coworkers/neighbors.
Now all I can say is that I am not only disappointed, but disgusted, & I am not alone.


Personally, I do not feel he is representing equally the interests of the older life long working class residents, let alone retired citizens.
It seems he just wants to push the working class people out, & seek & cater to newer residents, & new $$, while ignoring entire sections of the city as if they do not exist.
There's not much 'boots on the ground' action from him where it needs to be, such as addressing crime & blight in inner city neighborhoods, or lack of police response, or news coverage.
He likes to talk, & loves attention, but doesn't like to get his hands dirty with REAL ISSUES at their root, it's too difficult for him IMHO. He's not a worker, he's a talker. Above all, he's a politician with an agenda that does not reflect the interests of much of the population that voted him in.
Now he wants to tramp on our constitutional rights, when I live in a city neighborhood with poor police response, despite being a block away from the police station.
The gunfire I hear on a regular basis is NOT coming from law abiding citizens with CCW, or law abiding citizens with legally obtained guns to protect their homes, but no CCW. Nothing on his newest gun agenda changes that FACT.


But hey, I'm just a city resident, a home owner who pays city taxes.
In the past few years: there was a home invasion next door to me, 2 or 3 people shot on my street, on 3 different occasions, A drug raid across the street which resulted in the person coming out laughing in the street about how the officers missed the roaches in the ashtray & got nothing....no arrests, my parked car, & my neighbors parked car was totaled in a drive by shooting, a house burned to the ground by an arsonist across the street (the same house as the failed drug raid), a young (too young for ccw)family member and her friend were robbed, they held a gun to her head, for $1.35m her flip phone & a bag of potato chips in Grandview Park, another drug raid, at the entrance of Grandview park, replete with flash grenade, apparently crystal meth was recovered. Grandview Elementary School was never notified that there was anything out of the ordinary, and the playground abuts that property...
2 separate DOA overdoses that we know of (heroin from what we could hear from the officers), a few doors from the elementary school.
Most of what goes on in my neighborhood, Allentown, NEVER makes the news. It takes police 45 min to an hour to respond, ***IF THEY RESPOND AT ALL*** There have been times they have been called, showed up over an hour later, picked up bullet shells off the street & just left.
This list IS NOT EXHAUSTIVE, it's just off the top of my head.


Instead of attempting to infringe on constitutional rights of law abiding citizens, who only want to protect themselves,
we need better trained police, more police, boots on the ground, regular beat cops, REAL efforts to work on the city from the inside out, a different 911 protocol. More drug taskforce, instead of just dressing up the city for appearance sake. We need someone who will actually get their hands dirty and change our city for real, not someone who pretends the issues do not exist.


*I do want to add though-as tragic as this all is, & don't take it the wrong way, my block is a little 'quieter' now.
Not because the city mayor Peduto has done anything. It is because little chunk of our population who were involved with drugs & related crimes are dead, by their own involvement, & a drug house was burnt down. Innocent people have been hurt & deeply affected. This is not the type of change any of us wanted. Criminal retaliations & lack of law enforcement renders the population powerless.


My vote is not for Peduto, & I am not alone.
Just because you do not see it online in social media doesn't mean we aren't here.




Sigh. This was the shortest I could do without going into details.

Honest question: what would you I have liked to have see him do? You have detailed the crime in your neighborhood, but not necessarily the mayor’s failings. I hope you understand the both homicides and violent crime dropped last year.

[rickms]

yep.

[Catia]

Originally Posted by gladhands

Honest question: what would you I have liked to have see him do? You have detailed the crime in your neighborhood, but not necessarily the mayor’s failings. I hope you understand the both homicides and violent crime dropped last year.

I'm not meaning to be snarky, but I did clearly state what I, and many other residents would have liked him to do, not sure how you missed it. You know, the part about police, beat cops, training, drug task force, & for Peduto to ACTUALLY WORK FOR THE PEOPLE. ALL OF THE PEOPLE, not just his little special interests that bring $$ & attention.


And just for ***Gross Curiosity*** I wonder if the amount of homicides & violent crimes has gone down by the same or very close to the # of people who have KILLED EACH OTHER or OD'd.


Think on that for a minute.
We all know statistics get bent the way they want them bent.


Please think on the bigger picture.
Innocent people HAVE been killed & injured in that crossfire.
Kids left without parents, funerals, hospital bills, property damage.


We as tax payers end up paying for the after effects of Peduto's passivity on the REAL ISSUES.


That fixed income grandparent that worked their entire life, & paid City of PGH taxes, now has to care for their grandchildren, they just became a welfare family.


Letting the streets 'work themselves out' and counting it as a reduction in violent crime & homicide & taking credit for it is NOT the same thing as creating a safer living environment!
This type of inaction has only allowed criminals to be in control.


Now Peduto wants to play with our 2nd amendment rights on our dime.
I have a problem with this.
Because a psychopath, who would NEVER have followed any of Peduto's proposed ideas/laws anyway, & is ALSO not a city resident, gave him the platform. He is exploiting the platform.


This $$ for Peduto's fight could be better used to fight crime, educate & train our police, put beat cops where they should be, on our streets, in every neighborhood, instead of fighting a legal battle that threatens to limit the constitutional rights of people who CLEARLY ARE NOT CRIMINALS.


Not one criminal is going to follow anything he proposes, it's kinda the 'essence' of being a criminal.

[gladhands]

Originally Posted by Catia

I'm not meaning to be snarky, but I did clearly state what I, and many other residents would have liked him to do, not sure how you missed it. You know, the part about police, beat cops, training, drug task force, & for Peduto to ACTUALLY WORK FOR THE PEOPLE. ALL OF THE PEOPLE, not just his little special interests that bring $$ & attention.


And just for ***Gross Curiosity*** I wonder if the amount of homicides & violent crimes has gone down by the same or very close to the # of people who have KILLED EACH OTHER or OD'd.


Think on that for a minute.
We all know statistics get bent the way they want them bent.


Please think on the bigger picture.
Innocent people HAVE been killed & injured in that crossfire.
Kids left without parents, funerals, hospital bills, property damage.


We as tax payers end up paying for the after effects of Peduto's passivity on the REAL ISSUES.


That fixed income grandparent that worked their entire life, & paid City of PGH taxes, now has to care for their grandchildren, they just became a welfare family.


Letting the streets 'work themselves out' and counting it as a reduction in violent crime & homicide & taking credit for it is NOT the same thing as creating a safer living environment!
This type of inaction has only allowed criminals to be in control.


Now Peduto wants to play with our 2nd amendment rights on our dime.
I have a problem with this.
Because a psychopath, who would NEVER have followed any of Peduto's proposed ideas/laws anyway, & is ALSO not a city resident, gave him the platform. He is exploiting the platform.


This $$ for Peduto's fight could be better used to fight crime, educate & train our police, put beat cops where they should be, on our streets, in every neighborhood, instead of fighting a legal battle that threatens to limit the constitutional rights of people who CLEARLY ARE NOT CRIMINALS.


Not one criminal is going to follow anything he proposes, it's kinda the 'essence' of being a criminal.

The Tree of Life shooter was a law-abiding gun owner, right up until the moment that he wasn’t. It is absolutely insane for someone to bemoan violence on our streets in the same post that she is railing against gun laws. If this forum tolerated honest speech, I tell you what I really think you’re saying.

No one is telling you that you have to like Peduto or his methods, but there is an actual measurable reduction in violent crime. Maybe you would like the Batman.

[Catia]

Originally Posted by gladhands

The Tree of Life shooter was a law-abiding gun owner, right up until the moment that he wasn’t. It is absolutely insane for someone to bemoan violence on our streets in the same post that she is railing against gun laws. If this forum tolerated honest speech, I tell you what I really think you’re saying.

No one is telling you that you have to like Peduto or his methods, but there is an actual measurable reduction in violent crime. Maybe you would like the Batman.

Huh???
The forum has tolerated honest speech. ???


You don't need to threaten to tell me what you really think I am saying.


I said what I really think pretty clearly.


Yes, I would like "the Batman" as you call him. He has said, quote:


"In my attempts to see clearly in the deepest dark, in my efforts to go to the still eye in the storm of madness, did I open up myself to some pure source of evil? Did I finally reach the limits of reason? And find the Devil waiting? And was that fear in his eyes?"

[Yac]

Okay, at this point we all know this thread is not going anywhere. No surprise there.
Closing it before it escalates and infractions start flying.
Yac.