Brownsville Middle School Dejected by the gun violence near public school campuses, Miami-Dade County Public Schools Superintendent Alberto Carvalho said he’s taking to the streets — literally — in hopes of highlighting the need to make urban neighborhoods safe for children. Carvalho announced that he and T. Willard Fair, Urban League president, will patrol a corner in Brownsville that neighbors say is notorious for shootings. They will monitor the intersection of Northwest 24th Avenue and 49th Street, near Brownsville Middle School. The intersection is the site of a shooting Friday morning, when two vans carrying children and senior citizens were struck. “We need to be on these street corners,” Carvalho said in an interview with the Miami Times. He said … as early as next week. Fair said in order to take the problem of gun violence seriously, public officials and policy makers have to get in the trenches and get to know the residents of the community so they will feel safe enough to speak out against the perpetrators of violence. Anything less, he said, is grandstanding. “Anybody that’s concerned about the children and distributive behavior cannot just show up when someone gets shot,” Fair said. “They have […]
