Letter to the editor
On November 20, Gainesville Mayor Harvey Ward said, “A thing that leaps out at me is, this year, we have three homicides, and two of them were domestic violence. And so, over the next year or so, I really want to delve into… what we can do to help those numbers go down… I want to work with everybody we can, to help reduce domestic violence in our community, as well as suicides… So those are a couple of things you’re going to hear me talk about more over the next year.”
Ward didn’t mention anything about reducing taxes, fighting public corruption within the City organization that arrests men for domestic violence, reducing pay for parking, which is having a negative impact on small businesses downtown, etc. This virtue signaling will result in increased arrests in domestic violence cases, which carry a low threshold, if any, for an arrest, let alone a conviction…