jonas x3, Tulsa (11/10/2009 6:10:31 PM)

What is going on in Tulsa with the murder rate???

Let's hope our new mayor gives priority to this issue.

Thunder196, Tulsa (11/10/2009 6:17:01 PM)

Something is drastically wrong. We are reading way too many stories along this line.

Atticus Finch, East of Tulsa (11/10/2009 6:30:24 PM)

What do you expect a new mayor to be able to do? When idiots decide to shoot one another, bullets will fly. The police cannot be everywhere, they cannot read minds and know when or where idiots will strike. A new mayor will not be able to gaze into the crystals and affect a change of any size when Tulsa is in the process of downsizing the police force.

Angry Citizen!, Bluejacket (11/10/2009 6:31:08 PM)

This is a consequence of a failing to fund police and prisons properly. People in their thirties who have jobs and abide by the law don't kill each other in the middle of the afternoon.

Elusive, the burbs (11/10/2009 6:38:17 PM)

Thank God no teachers or students were hurt.

jess, (11/10/2009 6:49:17 PM)

Gangs? Drugs? That area is turning into a war zone.

hole punch, (11/10/2009 6:50:08 PM)

But....but Senator Coburn explain your aye vote for the approx. 800 billion "Bank Bailout" bill in 2008...oh did I mention it was also unfunded.

DBJohn, Tulsa (11/10/2009 7:05:25 PM)

I don't know about anyone else but I am so tired of this violence in our community. What can we do to stop it???

housedoctor, Tulsa (11/10/2009 7:10:00 PM)

I agree with Finch. No person or numbers of person can fortell what or where a crime is going to occurr. I strongly disagree with Angry. Normal everyday people with jobs do committ these crimes right along with all the worthless thugs.

livinglarge, (11/10/2009 7:15:46 PM)

there ya go new mayor, good luck cleaning this crap up

T.B'Ville, Bruins (11/10/2009 7:19:57 PM)

housedoctor, that is called going postal.

FUTURE WORLD, Tulsa (11/10/2009 7:21:32 PM)

I know we don't have the money but, that area of town could use some intensive video surveillance and firearm or gun shot microphone tracking equipment. It might be helpful to increase the number of division sub precincts.

Corvetteguy, Tulsa (11/10/2009 7:43:04 PM)

just another afternoon in Tulsa....

skippy1, Tulsa (11/10/2009 7:56:02 PM)

Wishing won't make it so. Generations of welfare mothers making babies to get bigger checks, neglecting and abusing these kids and building their anger and resentment. There are no consequences for not raising your children properly. Just exacty when did we become such a violent society? What generation is to blame? Better yet, what the hell can we do about it??

T.B'Ville, Bruins (11/10/2009 8:10:31 PM)

Have a tent city and fence it in for all of the people that want to suck the system dry.

Barbara Wright, Norman (11/10/2009 8:19:11 PM)

DB John asked a good question, "What can we do to prevent
this?" Well, this isn't politically correct, but we can start encouraging people to not have babies unless they are married. Almost all of these criminals and gang members come from fatherless homes. The lack of a father in the home is a great source of lots of society's misery.

We can also limit access of violent video games and movies to kids. We could go back to teaching that there is "right" and there is "wrong." Like I said, this isn't politically correct. I am praying for the families and school children who have to live in these war zones within America. Sad, really sad.

Rance, Gore (11/10/2009 8:35:34 PM)

Get out of the jungle now ...run fast and run far!! raised in Tulsa and always thought of it as the best city in the country NOW you could not pay me to live there, i hate going there and if i have too i am armed..its a dying city with no Community PRIDE left ....Run people run!!!

Bonasera the Undertaker, Brooklyn (11/10/2009 8:50:07 PM)

Skippy and Barbara - I agree 100% - it all goes back to the complete absence of sireing children within a married union. Women are selling themselves cheaply by spawning one after another, without marital benefit - hell, probably not even a decent dinner before or after. That they have so little regard for themselves is one thing, but to insist that their offspring be raised in a less than optimum one-parent household is selfish and stupid.

Supermommy, Tulsa (11/10/2009 8:55:41 PM)

I feel sorry for our homicide detectives...all 6 of them.

Overtime, overtime, overtime....ka ching, ka ching $$$$

imightbewrong, tulsa (11/10/2009 9:18:31 PM)

Profile, profile, profile...........might sound bad but it sure would work.

Greg19670, (11/10/2009 9:34:04 PM)

What is happening to Tulsa? Oh wait. Nothing. This has been happening for years.

Supermommy, Tulsa (11/10/2009 9:43:41 PM)

imightbewrong,

You might be right! :)

charlestace, Tulsa (11/10/2009 9:45:47 PM)

"The 31-year-old man who died was in the driveway of a house at 48th Street and Yorktown
Place . . ."

Good idea to make clear that it's 48th Street NORTH.

GVILLE, (11/10/2009 10:12:42 PM)

@ BONASERA
IT DIDNT SAY ANYTHING ABOUT CAPRICES IN THIS ARTICLE. IT SAYS DODGE DURANGO.
THE REAL PROBLEM: 2 PEOPLE GET SHOT AROUND 4PM AND NO ONE CONVIENTLY SEEN A THING.
LOCK'EM UP AND GIVE THEM LIFE. WHILE THE SEX OFFENDERS SERVE 1 TO 2YRS, AND MOVE TO MY NEIGHBORHOOD AFTER THEIR RELEASE.

scooter2, (11/10/2009 10:13:28 PM)

Thank God none of the students or teachers were hurt or killed. Let's all pray they catch the shooter. What Tulsa needs is an old fashioned revival. It is greatly disturbing.