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Feagler and Friends - Mayor's Crime Plan; Shaker Attack
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Mayor's Crime Plan: Mayor Frank Jackson and Cleveland police announced a new get-tough policy on guns this week. They say police will be aggressive in their efforts to arrest people illegally carrying guns. The Mayor acknowledges that some tactics may create friction between citizens and police. In the recent past, police have teamed with federal agents to target drug-dealing gangs. They're planning a similar effort with guns.

Shaker Attack: Police have charged six teens and are seeking a seventh in the severe beating of a Shaker Heights lawyer as he took a pre-dinner stroll on New Year's Eve. The attack shattered Kevin McDermott's lower leg and forcefully brought the reality of inner-city crime to an affluent inner-ring suburb. It renewed debate over how suburbs should protect themselves from big city crime, but it strengthened the resolve of many residents to stay and face the perceived dangers.

Presidential Politics: Republican John McCain and Democrat Hillary Clinton posted wins in the New Hampshire primary this week, putting on hold for now worries that their campaigns were foundering. Now, it's on to the Michigan primary next week and the Super Tuesday primaries of February 5th. The key unanswered question after New Hampshire was not about politics, but about polling. All the major polls failed to predict the Granite State winners.

Capital Punishment: Ken Richey is on his way to his native Scotland and Governor Strickland commuted John Spirko's death sentence to life in prison. In both cases, the men were removed from Ohio's death row where they'd spent decades because officials became convinced their convictions were based on flawed evidence. Spirko's lawyers say they'll continue efforts to obtain his release in the 1982 slaying of a northwest Ohio postmaster. Richey was accused of setting a fire in 1986 that killed a toddler.

January 11, 2008