Jackson Mayor John Horhn issued the following statement.
Jackson residents,
Our city is hurting. In recent days, we have seen a troubling rise in gun-related violence, shootings, and senseless loss of life. No family should have to face the pain of losing a loved one to violence. Violence against the innocent is intolerable, and as your Mayor, I will not accept this as the norm for our community.
We are taking this seriously. I have been in coordination with Chief Brackney and our public safety team. We will deploy additional resources to address immediate concerns. The Jackson Police Department has achieved an 85 percent clearance rate in solving homicides, a testament to their dedication. But we know it does not bring back the lives lost or heal the pain families are carrying. Most of these crimes are not random and that is why we must go beyond enforcement and place a stronger focus on prevention, addressing the root causes of violence before it begins.
Enforcement alone is not enough. Over the next few days, we will present a plan that brings together law enforcement, community leaders, violence prevention experts, mental health professionals, our faith community, and leaders from communities that are impacted the most by these crime.
We will continue to focus on investing more in our young people, expanding opportunities, and addressing the underlying conditions that contribute to crime.
This behavior is a bad stain on all the good that is going on in our communities. We will not accept violence as a way of life in Jackson. We are going to confront this head-on and do the work necessary to make our city safer.
45 comments:
root causes.... right.
“Our city if hurting”. What an understatement.
This is pathetic. Keep this message from him and file it.
Take it out in three years and see if things have gotten better or worse.
Crime in Jackson has rotted a once nice place and all this guy can do is offer platitudes. Jackson leadership is a joke, just like “Dr Chief”.
Awful city that’s just getting worse.
It’s the culture.
How to put a dent in crime 101......arrest the person(s) and the judge ACTUALLY putting the person in jail. What a concept.
Bull Horhn needs hands-on tough enforcement:
Curfew, Road Blocks and SSAFE:
Stop, Search And Frisk Effectively. Many of these crimes are committed with stolen guns, stolen cars, repeat offenders who were lectured and released to offend again.
Road blocks and searches should occur in high crime zones on a surprise basis. Make it a crime to evade/escape a roadblock.
Then Mayor Bull Horhn can crow to the moon with news video of arrests and evidence.
This is the problem: "over the next few days , we will present a plan, blah, blah, blah, this expert, that pastor, the professional... Mr. Mayor we passed that point 30 years ago. Have the intelligence to recognize that you can change Jackson but it cannot come from within. It must come from outside. Be the man that makes a change of biblical proportion. Please.
More of the same ineffective handwringing. Just won’t accept that the only thing thugs understand is enforcement
More Traffic stops, stop and frisk, enforced curfews, fully prosecute discharge of firearms...less community meetings and press releases, press conferences which do nothing. Thanks for nothing mayor. Keep up the good work.
I haven’t heard anything about gangs in Jackson lately.
"Jackson has no gangs." (Chowke, 2022)
I haven’t heard anything come out of the Dr.-Chiefs mouth about anything during the last few weeks.
As long as Hinds County voters keep electing soft on crime judges, nothing is going to change.
I was wrong.
I just saw the Doctor-Chief babbling goofy word salad about the baby murder.
Perhaps Ben Crump can leave Senatobia for a few days and drive down 55 to Jackson ?
Been a busy last few days for Mayor Horhn. When he wasn’t soft-pedaling the rotten culture over which he presides, he was in federal court regurgitating the trope that the legislature is filled with racists. New Mayor, same as the old Mayor.
You know, we can laugh at his goofy hat and personality, but there is one man that plans to deal with this crap directly, and that man is Andy Gipson. Nobody else is man enough to get it fixed that’s gonna run for gov.
"The Jackson Police Department has achieved an 85 percent clearance rate in solving homicides ...
Brackney's spin that she trotted out after only being in town a couple of weeks. Says absolutely nothing.
Meanwhile Horhn's statement says zilch about HInds dysfunctional slap-on-wrist judicial system.
"Over the next few days, we will present a plan that brings together law enforcement, community leaders, violence prevention experts, mental health professionals, our faith community, and leaders from communities that are impacted the most by these crime."
Translation: Blah, blah, blah, blah.
If there is anybody who understands that Jackson has heard that shit before you'd think it would be John Horhn. He must somehow think that with just a different pitchman the citizen dupes will believe that garbage.
If there are suddenly “additional resources” to “deploy” why hasn’t such already been in use?
“Over the next few days, we will present a plan that brings together law enforcement, community leaders, violence prevention experts, mental health professionals, our faith community, and leaders from communities that are impacted the most by these crime.”
You hired a weak-ass police chief, and the gangs on the street know it. Now you’re doubling down on that bullcrap.
Jackson needs a gang task force, and has needed one for a long time. Trying to peacefully coexist with gang members has failed, and will continue to fail.
Step 1: admit Jackson has a gang problem.
Dr. Chief has allegedly given Assistant Chief W. Watts the option to be demoted or resign. Word from inside the department is she wants to establish her Chief of Staff (Never been law enforcement) as the second in charge. The department will continue to fall a part under the Dr. Chief.
How predictable: the bottom dwelling commenters on this site think they can hide their racism by critiquing the “culture,” as if we aren’t supposed to know what that’s code word for. Grow up, you klansmen.
Mayor- Can you cure fatherless homes?
We all know what it takes to clean up this city, but the leaders want long political careers and do not want to offend anyone.
The evil is dug in deep thruout our society. The worst of it is in the inner cities but I promise , rural areas are also eat up. Our moral center is off with the magnetic field.
6:35 Hit the nail on the head.... The police department, even with ineffective leadership, has had a continuing high percentage of cases solved for years, but the one constant that has only gotten worse is the prosecution and circuit/city judiciary.
The people of Jackson have spoken at the polls and this is the kind of Jackson they want . If/when they ever want this stopped they'll vote for judges that are hard on crime....until then bang bang bang .
Police dept answering the damn phone would be a good place to start. Try to call jpd! If you get an answer you win the lottery
It's now multigenerational. Grandmas are raising these thugs. Where are the grandfathers, fathers, mothers?
It's not longer criminals arising out of fatherless homes. When I look up names in the criminal dockets, I'm seeing more and more seniors and juniors. Or I'll see a name that has a string of crimes but the dates are 15-20 years apart. In other words, more kids are growing up in criminal households and becoming criminals themselves.
The governor election is 1 1/2 yrs away. Couldn’t The Hat just tell Bull Horhn how to fix it now.. Save about 100 lives.
Wendell is the wrong color.
I stand by my fatherless home comment above yours. The grandmother of the kid found murdered in a back yard last week stated that she will now be living alone.
Good morning 6:01, "culture" does not have a racial component. It simply is a common set of values, beliefs, customs or behaviors. I suggest you purchase a mirror, relfection is usually very good for the soul.
The black folks that don’t celebrate criminality and infinite grifting are tired of it too.
(Shrug) Okay, @6:01 AM, the problem is not race and it is not culture. What, then, is it? What’s the solution? Can you come out with a solution that doesn’t entail giveaway programs, midnight basketball, and picking pockets for tax money? I’m listening.
You will not see any major changes in Jackson until new Circuit Court judges and a LEO friendly DA are in place. JPD also needs a hard charging chief that isn't afraid to po-leece the right way. Sadly, that will not happen. Police officers in Hinds County can not fully do their job with the constant fear of indictment for doing nothing wrong (see Anthony Fox). It also doesn't help that the same judges dole out slaps on the wrist for murderers and violent offenders. The only hope was for the CCID to form its own circuit court, but unfortunately that was deemed racist and shot down. Crime in most of Jackson (outside of the CCID where at least CPD is proactive) will never be under control.
@7:51. What exactly do you expect Andy Gipson to do? Ride in on his wagon with a double barrel like he's escorting a stage coach?
If it’s not the thug/gang/feral culture, what is it then? What’s the solution? Some folks are sick of this shit.
Mr. Mayor and Dr. Chief - If you want to address/reduce crime, study Rudy Giuliani's "broken window" policy. Oh wait... I forgot he's a Republican.
6:01, By "culture," I mean street culture and gang culture.
You know, the people who commit most of the homicides in Jackson.
6:01 AM Dusted off your race card?
"Stop, Search And Frisk Effectively."
Hey June 28, 2026 at 5:42 PM- I got caught up in one them Frank Melton roadside checkpoints once. Right across the street from where they had a young black mother holding her child while they were dumping all her belongings from her vehicle on the road. When they came to me I told them "Officer, You DO NOT Have My Permission To Enter My Vehicle". After some ya ya they gave my license back & told me I could go. You shoulda seen the look on that young mother's face when she realized she didn't have to consent to a vehicle search outta thin air! I realize you city folks have problems that you have no solutions for, but the 4th amendment protects me from people like you & if you want to live in a dictatorship or commie state then why don't you move to one?
Good afternoon 12:35, quite the contrary, the race card is never stationary long enough to gather dust. Reshuffled and dealed whether needed or not. The cards come with a guaranteed replacement if needed. No expiration date. Also guaranteed to work after distributions of reparations. Something like a get out of jail free card, excuse from all other "cultural" entanglements that burden the village.
Only one to do anything to help was that business owner who smoked a thief over the weekend and they arrested him. You can clearly see where the priorities lie. Won't do anything to fix the problem but prosecute anyone who dares stand up for themselves. I've never seen such chickenshit from law enforcement. And thats saying something in this state.
Same song second verse
Exactly
She riding around in her new vehicle
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