Now, I have to admit – I don’t know a whole lot about Cleveland, and can probably rattle those few nuggets off in a pretty short paragraph.
It’s in Ohio, sits next to Lake Erie (check, check), is home to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the Browns, and whose baseball home team made a singularly craven, virtue-signaling move dumping one of the greatest baseball mascots ever. An iconic figure whose Schlitz-eatin’ grin was an integral part of one of the most memorable scenes from one of the greatest baseball movies EH-VAH.
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Judging by the 2022 census, Cleveland’s a pretty small place – a tad over 360K people.
But as of last July, crime was skyrocketing.
Violent crime in Cleveland has been top of mind for residents as well as city leaders in the aftermath of Sunday morning’s mass shooting that injured nine…