City Looks to Twitter for Answer to Gun Problem (IL)

[Bruce Jackson]

http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/City-Looks-to-Twitter-for-Answer-to-Gun-Problem-171939501.html

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City Looks to Twitter for Answer to Gun Problem
The best submitted ideas will be debated at an Oct. 11 panel discussion
Sunday, Sep 30, 2012 | Updated 11:50 AM CDT

The City of Chicago is asking residents with ideas on how to get
illegal guns off the streets to share their thoughts — in 140
characters or fewer on Twitter.

The initiative is part of Chicago Ideas Week, an annual forum for
innovators, artists, scientists and others to share ideas and inspire
action.

Those who think they know how to cut off the flow of illegal guns into
Chicago are being asked to tweet them with the hashtag
(hash)whatifchicago.

The best submitted ideas will be debated at an Oct. 11 panel discussion.

Chicago's social media director, Kevin Hauswirth, says the effort is a
great example of "the potential power that social media offers city
government."

According to police, 382 people have been killed so far this year,
many by guns, as of the middle of September.


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