Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba issued the following statement.
"Yesterday, I provided the media a comprehensive statement on crime in Jackson. My primary goal was to inform the public that I have no interest in scoring political points or engaging in a tit for tat with local and state officials over the issue of public safety. To that end, I said very clearly that there are several avenues we have pursued and are pursuing to tackle the surge in violent crime. My comments were very clear. We can all play a part in reducing violent crime in Jackson. Among those avenues is the work we have put in to secure funding from the state. As I said during the briefing, we have requested funding from the state for several public safety-related measures, including for the police department. We did not get that funding. That to me is a concerning fact. But to suggest – as one article has – that I am blaming the state for Jackson’s crime issues is a gross misrepresentation of my intent and not a reflection of my actual comments. To make that conclusion live on the air or in the headline of a story – which is the only context for many residents - is both inaccurate and salacious. At no point did I blame the state for crime in Jackson. In fact, I did the opposite. I suggested that crime is bigger than any one person, entity or agency. I noted very clearly that it will take a collective effort to address it. These are the kind of headlines that do nothing more than generate distrust among those of us who are sincerely committed to making a difference. It is an unfortunate misrepresentation of what I said and have said in the past. I encourage residents to watch and listen to the media briefing on the City’s Facebook page to judge for themselves."According to Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba, the state is to blame for the increasing crime numbers in Jackson. He says their lack of support and funding has left crime unaddressed and difficult to combat.
“We’ve asked for millions upon millions of dollars, and the city of Jackson’s Police Department has not received any of it,” Mayor Lumumba said.
Forty-nine homicides in the city of Jackson so far in 2022 leaves many wondering what is going to be done to prevent that number from growing.
According to Mayor Lumumba, he’s been trying to solve the problem for a while.
“We are trying to combat that with every resource we have. We have a number of foundational things that we have to do in order to interrupt those cycles,” Mayor Lumumba said.
Mayor Lumumba claimed his administration has been asking for help from the state, only for them to say no to several items, including raises for police officers.
“It is this administration, my office, that proposed a $2 million increase that would have been $20 annually,” said Mayor Lumumba. “That would have accomplished pay raises. That would have made it more attractive for officers. That was turned down.”
Mayor Lumumba says his administration also asked for new technology for the Jackson Police Department.
“We asked for money to support ballistic IQ technology that we can take many of the gunshot rounds and connect them to crimes without it having to be delayed by the state crime lab. That was turned down,” Mayor Lumumba explained.
More cameras for the real-time command center were also denied over two years ago.
Now, Mayor Lumumba said he’s turning to places other than the state for financial help.
“We went to the National League of Cities,” said Mayor Lumumba. “The National League of Cities, who has no responsibility like the state does to our residents, has given us nearly a million dollars in order to stand up programming that interrupts the cycle amongst a demographic that we’re seeing the greatest, the sharpest rise in violence in our community, and that’s amongst some of our younger residents,” Mayor Lumumba said.
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Crime in Jacktown will never be Chokwad's fault; he will always blame it on other entities/forces. The buck always stops with the person at the top of any organization/entity/municipality, and he's that person in Jacktown. Liberals are never able to accept responsibility; it's just not in their nature.
Such a joke when you pushed for MBar in North Jackson while you Yourself talked about the shootings there. Take responsibility for not allowing law enforcement to do Their Job! Quit making Officers the bad guys !
"The Mayor" collects(what isn't pocketed) maybe half of water bill money......about half parking meter money..... half on garbage.... half of various other city fees....over pays for about half of certain city emps and then has the nerve to blame others for his failures. CITIES are suppose to support themselves you dumb POS ! And you could if you and your dept's were doing their jobs !
An absolute democRAT tool. Take a look around every major city and the crime problem and you will see is it run by the democRATS!
Context Kid Mayor abuses use of 'salacious'.
"More cameras for the real-time command center were also denied over two years ago." That would be the real time command center that he himself said in another one of his gumflapping sessions was not manned. THAT is why the state will not give him money for cameras & the fact the city cannot maintain anything.
But, but, it's only a perception of violent crime, so why does he need all of this money from the state, right?
Where did Jackson's tax base go?
Why should the state throw money down your rabbit hole (pockets of friends of Chowke)?
"Jackson has no gangs." Chowke Lumumba 2020
Right?
Note: He didn't write this defensive piece of spin. One of his Spin Doctors wrote it.
Fuck this guy. Seriously. What a joke.
Ask 100 people who know absolutely nothing about Jackson to watch the clip you featured yesterday Kingfish, 90% or more would conclude he's blaming the state.
No wonder other politicians laugh at you LuDUMBa. You honestly are a true idiot!!! Point the finger run your fat mouth and then claim you didn’t. Your like a 4 year old on Christmas morning that is stomping mad bc Santa didn’t bring him everything he wanted. I live in NE Jackson and I can’t understand why the state is to blame for crime in Jackson. The state owes Jackson nothing.
The perception of "salacious" reporting
Mr Mayor you don’t need MORE money to fight crime.
To make it clear, Law Enforcement are aware of the causation of problems! Eliminate the threat and problem solved! If there are snakes, get rid of the food source, RIGHT.
It appears the the criminals in the metro area are smarter then the police, prosecutors and the Judges, RIGHT.
WLBT is probably the only TV station in Jackistan that isn't in Chowke's pocket.
@9:40 AM, talk about context. The State DID NOT turn down a 2 mil increase to increase JPD officer pay. FACT.
Maybe the Mayor, Virgi, or Entergy can explain why the vast majority of the blue light cameras that Belhaven University and people in Belhaven paid for have yet to go up, and why one came down just for there to be carjacking practically in that spot? Actions speak louder than words.
What does sex have to do with it?
His continual setting up of the foundational interruption straw man is nothing more than avoidance.
Nobody gives a shit about the damn National League of Cities while being robbed at gunpoint.
Jackson receives no funding from the Legislature, beyond crumbs, over which Lumumba gets direct control while he remains in office.
In a few years a functional police force will be stood up inside the Capitol Complex Improvement District and, if Lumumba is still in office, the situation outside the CCID will still be dire.
Elect an ideologue, get an ideologue. Elect a total greenhorn with zero experience, get a greenhorn with zero experience.
Ridgeland's Omari the bobblehead in the background.
“We are trying to combat that with every resource we have. We have a number of foundational things that we have to do in order to interrupt those cycles,” Mayor Lumumba said.
Remember back when the "code phrase" was "we have a number of tools in the tool shed"? Looks like he's gone through all the tools in the shed and he's now down to the bare floor. Somebody find a broom to sweep the floor. Don't worry about the light switch as the bulb is burned out.
WAPT | Man killed over wallet, Jackson police say
Police said Monday evening, Jimmy Pierce, 50, was sitting outside a home on West Street.
Someone demanded Pierce's wallet before shooting him twice in the chest.
Only thing this imbecile does well is blame others
Just like Shad blaming MS Today for being "liberal garbage" when they expose truths that don't fit his narrative.
Neither Chokwe Antar Lumumba or Shad White seem to understand what salacious means. Both misuse it.
Has the State refused to fund Lil Choke's Ministry of Truth? How can he shape the news without enforcement powers? Funny that he instructs us to go to his city FB page for the "Truth".
OMG, "salacious."
salacious
sə-lā′shəs
adjective
Appealing to or stimulating sexual desire.
Characterized by or indicating sexual desire; lustful.
Promoting sexual desire or lust.
Maybe he still had his last Atlanta trip on his mind. Freudian slip? Does Ebony have a gat?
Chokwe, Chief Davis, and the Acting Sheriff all need to be replaced asap! They don’t have a clue what they’re doing. It won’t be anything left in Jackson at the rate the crime has increased.
Day # of Year: 137
# of Homicides: 53 (according to WAPT)[1]
53 ÷ 137 = 0.38686
0.38686 * 365 = 141.2
Projected homicides by years end 141.
WLBT tracker has 51.
[1] - https://www.wapt.com/article/man-killed-over-wallet-jackson-police-say/40015411
@11:28 AM Hinds Co. has an "acting sheriff?"
When the KKK folks side with Kenny Stokes….you gots a problem maya
"0.38686 * 365 = 141.2
Projected homicides by years end 141."
I'm calling it 142 since I've personally never heard of anyone 20% dead.
The media took "salacious" out of context, right?
One. If you are going to be in the interview with the mayor. Tuck your dang shirt in!!! It’s the little things!
12:01, By "KKK folks" you mean any and all white people, right? Just want to make sure I understand you.
"sensational" is the word he was looking for haha damn
Chokwe, Chief Davis, and the Acting Sheriff all need to be replaced asap! They don’t have a clue what they’re doing. It won’t be anything left in Jackson at the rate the crime has increased.
Hawkins Butler couldn't fix this, without a layup from the state.
Needless to say, the trajectory of Jackson is not good. People in the surrounding burbs do not understand this will hurt them just as much.
We have three separate counties competing for revenues, acting as if they are in different states. When the city and suburbs need to be planning how each can gain and retain businesses, without it having an adverse affect on another location in the greater Jackson metro area.
Businesses that should be centrally located, closing and moving to parts of the suburbs that is just not logistically convenient for people in other parts.
You can't blame people for shutting down and relocating. But we gotta start thinking about how this area is going to develop as a whole?
"Elections have consequences"
What Lumumba 2.0 means is "send me more money to pretend like I am doing something, but I really and going to funnel it to my friends to give back to me". Case in point, $30mil(1/3rd) of the Siemens settlement money his Chicago lawyer buddies received. Hell, any attorney downtown could have won that one for a whole lot cheaper. Hell, most of them donate to Antars campaign. Antar robbed $30mil of the Siemens settlement money from the people of Jackson. No wonder just about everyone is hesitant to send him more money.
If you want to make a change in the crime in Jackson, he needs to be preaching about replacing all the social justice warrior judges to keep turning them back out. I bet he wont make mention of them though. He's a do nothing, jive talking, empty suit mayor looking for his next leap into the liberal spotlight.
I think both the Mayor of Jackson and the self-described (would-be) "likely next Governor of Mississippi" (a/k/a Shad White) have confused the word "salacious" with the word "sensationalist" (which actually means someone who presents a story in a way intended to provoke public interest or excitement at the expense of accuracy). But, then, maybe they don't teach that distinction either at the Thurgood Marshall School of Law at Texas Southern University (the Mayor) or Harvard School of Law (Shadrack).
I’m calling on the police to stop all the gang bangers search their person and their vehicles, you will find guns and drugs! These young fools will not leave home without their firepower! You know who they are!!!
Do not tell the Mayor or the Chief of Police of our plans! They will alert the gangbangers and dope boys!
A huge part of the problem is people who don't live in Jackson, shop here, volunteer here of support Jackson in any way...yet segregate, insult and disparage in every way the can.
@3:45 PM - as it should be.
Because Lil Choke can no longer sell his circuitous, self serving stretchers outside his own crew of toadies, he gets hysterical when publicly called out, which just makes his incompetence ever more apparent.
2:48 but, but.... I imagine none of these local lawyers would have purchased that nice NE Jackson house in a gated community. Hell, if Yarber can cut a deal to get his mortgage 'dismissed', then CAL figured he was entitled to a nice new house as well.
1:33-I agree.
Now tell me with a straight face that Chuckles would entertain the idea of a board, comprised of leaders from the SUBURBS, that will have a say in how the city is managed, how contracts are doled out, how crime is squashed, and how to gentrify.
Otherwise, what exactly do you suggest the suburbanites do to save Jackson from itself?
Contrary to your belief, we do know its better for all if Jackson thrives.
However we were told to shut up and hand over our money, so we left.
Yes 3:45, bad word of mouth is the reason Jackson is failing.
God help us.
Many comments about ole Shaddy for Guvnah! I don't know that my eyes could handle all the shine on those fake pearly white front incisors he has. I'd need sunglasses if he weren't a dwarf.
12:09 PM
Remember, that is an estimate. I fully expect this year to compete with 2021. I rounded down because you only round up > 0.5.
where's the Siemens money? The FBI needs to be looking at the mayor
8:41 WLBT ran a crawl on their screen Monday night saying that an audit of the Siemens settlement showed 1/3 of the money went to lawyers and half went to pay for deadbeats who did not pay their water bills. Only $15 million (or 1/6th) went for actual improvements in the system.
Dear Mayor, the only place the future is taking you now, are places you’ll regret in the end. You’ve sold your soul to the devil and you obviously don’t know it. You have proven you were spoiled and ill prepared to be in a position of leadership. Hang your Buster Browns in the closet and don’t apologize for your disappointing time of public service. You have failed. Please, stop reading the dictionary and just be a normal thug. It’s the right thing to do.
I'm a firm believer in the authority of press releases to curb crime. Jackson is safe.
Dear Mayor,
We are not interested in spending our state tax dollars to solve your problems.
Sincerely,
Everyone else in Mississippi
The FBI? As if!
Hopefully, Kingfish will be kind enough to post my reply
@ May 17, 2022 at 4:51 PM
1:33-I agree.
Now tell me with a straight face that Chuckles would entertain the idea of a board, comprised of leaders from the SUBURBS, that will have a say in how the city is managed, how contracts are doled out, how crime is squashed, and how to gentrify.
Otherwise, what exactly do you suggest the suburbanites do to save Jackson from itself?
Contrary to your belief, we do know its better for all if Jackson thrives.
However we were told to shut up and hand over our money, so we left.
Thank you for agreeing.
But when you say, save Jackson from itself, you really should have posed the question what can we do to slow down the fiscal redistribution? We are not growing as a metropolitan area - but what we are experiencing is fiscal redistribution. That's one thing.
The ideas of regional boards are necessary, but the biggest issue is the representation and the willingness to get along to work along with each other. What Toby Barker has done in Hattiesburg is monumental and remarkable.
The surrounding suburbs have the ability to ratify around a mayoral candidate they thing is worthing of being the mayor of Jackson and they can see their own mayors working with. But they got to get their dollars behind the right candidate and steer that person to make promises to work with you guys.
Basically, where there is interdependence between the city and the suburbs.
But trust me, if there were better candidates running against Lumumba, he would have lost.
NEXT!!!!
10:50, I hear what you're saying, but I believe your vision is mutually exclusive of the vision of the Jackson intelligentsia. This mayor and his predecessor-father, with their backers, have a vision for Jackson as an independent black nation.
There is no room in the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement (co-founded by Lumumba I) or the Republic of New Afrika for partnerships with white people. If you think I am exaggerating, you haven't been paying attention to the garbage contract debacle.
Lumumbas I and II have won 3 of the last 4 elections for mayor. That isn't a fluke; it's a pattern.
I'm 1:33 and I sincerely applaud your efforts 10:50.
If you can get Chokeway, Rukia and the City council to get along with Rankin and Madison officials to agree to mutual representation and a willingness to work with others, you may be on to something.
I do not share your optimism, though. They have done absolutely nothing to extend any olive branch to anyone. Quite the opposite.
And the suburbs will never agree to fund the corruption while having no say in the spending.
Gentrification is the only hope.
That will never happen until crime is controlled.
Crime will never be controlled when leaders are all fancy words and outstretched hands begging for money and zero action.
And I can think of a few Fondren fellows that would make wonderful mayors.
But no amount of money will get a white man elected.
Jackson's largest voting block would rather burn with a leader of the same skin tone than thrive with leaders cursed with opposing complexions. Sad and true.
Another carjacking last night in Belhaven.
Yeah - it’s perfectly safe to come eat down there.
Kingfish, if you will be so kind again..............
@ May 18, 2022 at 2:33 PM
'm 1:33 and I sincerely applaud your efforts 10:50.
If you can get Chokeway, Rukia and the City council to get along with Rankin and Madison officials to agree to mutual representation and a willingness to work with others, you may be on to something.
I do not share your optimism, though. They have done absolutely nothing to extend any olive branch to anyone. Quite the opposite.
And the suburbs will never agree to fund the corruption while having no say in the spending.
Gentrification is the only hope.
That will never happen until crime is controlled.
Crime will never be controlled when leaders are all fancy words and outstretched hands begging for money and zero action.
And I can think of a few Fondren fellows that would make wonderful mayors.
But no amount of money will get a white man elected.
Jackson's largest voting block would rather burn with a leader of the same skin tone than thrive with leaders cursed with opposing complexions. Sad and true.
The keywords you stated were - Chokeway, Rukia, and City council to agree.
Its possible and I will tell you how, in the next election cycle, the alderman, and mayoral candidates need to start talking about how they want the Jackson metro area to succeed and will be willing to put forth efforts to make a stronger Madison (or Brandon) by building relationships with other city officials. That way it puts the onus on political candidates in Jackson to match that same energy and the onus will fall on them to fall in line to say they will work to build coalitions too. The candidates that are paying attention, will find a way to reach out. The voters will see it
City residents want someone that can be a coalition builder, who will have the ability to forge partnerships with the surrounding suburbs. Chokwe is not doing that and the people can see it.
I want you to think about something. Chokwe won the election, but the turnout was terrible. Presidential Hills has 2000 registered voters. Only 700 even showed up in that last election. Better candidates, regardless of race, need to step up and run
The residents in the suburbs need to get more active in city politics, get some dollars behind a candidate that can build a coalition with the burbs, that the city residents can get behind too. If Mitch Landrieu can get elected in New Orleans, the suburbs can get who they want in Jackson too.
You guys got a choice, stick with the status quo and do nothing, or get in the game and change the trajectory?
12:27 wrote: "City residents want someone that can be a coalition builder, who will have the ability to forge partnerships with the surrounding suburbs."
On what do you based that assumption? As I wrote before:
"Lumumbas I and II have won 3 of the last 4 elections for mayor. That isn't a fluke; it's a pattern."
-5.18.22 @ 1:20 PM
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