Republican State House candidate Anthony Pizighelli, challenging incumbent Democrat Charlie Stallworth, writes in a commentary “One of my goals if elected is to work with Chief Perez to increase state funding for police services. Our police are so understaffed they spend their shift playing catch up with all the calls they have to respond to.”
Yesterday Bridgeport police say two women and a child were injured in a shooting in the city’s North End.
The shooting happened in front of a house on Anson Street. One woman was shot in the groin and the other was shot in the chest. Police say a 9-year-old girl was also struck by bullet fragments, but was not seriously hurt. The mere fact she was hit by a fragment is an outrage.
Police say at least two gunman opened fire in front of the house, following a dispute one person had with somebody there earlier in the day. So these people knew there were children in the home and still opened fire.
I personally witnessed and reported a 12-year-old child pointing a chrome semi-automatic pistol at a passing truck. I called Bridgeport Police they had a 45-minute response time, I woke up to a man going through my desk, and have had many items stolen from my property. I live 2 blocks from where this shooting occurred.
This city is turning into the old west; it has to stop.
I am concerned for the safety of every city resident, but the lack of concern when you shoot blindly into a house occupied by children is a sign that life has little or no meaning to some people. We need to restore the family values that built America and show people life has meaning and actions have consequences. Please support me for State Representative together we can make Bridgeport Great Again.
Adding funding is not going to solve these issues alone. It is not going to fix the broken component of the poor home component. More often than not too many kids are raised by kids. These kids do not have the skills to properly raise a child because they are children themselves. They are behind the minute they take their first breath. You add not being taught the proper skills the rest of us do without thinking. The next thing you know you have a person who has no skills to stay in school or out of jail.
Adding money to a poorly functioning police department is not going to fix this. This cycle of hopelessness that plagues far too many cities has to stop. Let’s start with better home training. Let’s curb teen pregnancy, let’s get back to basics. Let us all join in with teaching the basics, it does take a village to raise a child.