Mapping Sarasota's Murders

If public officials want to go the code enforcement route for cracking down on properties contributing to homicides, they’ll have a tough time actually finding a structure to nail it on.
Out of the seven homicides in city limits, all of the victims except two were found in in the street. One victim was shot outside of a home and another victim died in a home where he likely sought shelter from the shooting before he died, police said.
Recently, City Commissioner Willie Charles Shaw said wanted a collaborative effort of the community, city staff and law enforcement to help stop the murders and had suggested the code enforcement route for public nuisance.
The first barrier, Capt. Paul Sutton of the Sarasota Police Department said, is the nuisance code only looks at prostitution-related, drug-related and gang-related crimes. The

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