{"id":117061,"date":"2023-03-25T10:20:31","date_gmt":"2023-03-25T14:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=117061"},"modified":"2023-03-25T10:20:31","modified_gmt":"2023-03-25T14:20:31","slug":"message-from-mayor-tuerk-on-recent-violence-in-allentown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=117061","title":{"rendered":"Message from Mayor Tuerk on Recent Violence in Allentown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>March 24, 2022 \u2013 Allentown Mayor Matt Tuerk shares the following message regarding the recent violence in the City:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI&#8217;m sad to see the loss of life in our City over the past day. My heart goes out to the mothers and children of those we lost and I understand the fear and frustration felt by our neighbors. We are hurting, but I trust Allentonians to find a path to healing.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I want our residents to know that we are here to help. If you&#8217;re feeling overwhelmed, stressed out, angry, health care providers can help. Mental health is key to our community&#8217;s health, and both our hospital networks and our first responders are here to serve. Our police are capable and do respond to both to neighborhood emergencies and also neighborly disputes. We&#8217;re here to help.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I&#8217;ll repeat what I said at yesterday&#8217;s rally against illegal guns in Harrisburg. The malignant presence of illegal guns is a toxin in Allentown. I&#8217;m asking our legislators to join me in getting guns off the street in our city. When we have safe streets, we give Pennsylvanians a chance to thrive. The Allentown police department has taken over 350 guns off the street since the beginning of 2022, and the Pennsylvania General Assembly can help by passing laws mandating the reporting of gun theft, improving background checks, and enacting extreme risk protection orders.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Our health and safety are bound together, and we can be better when we help each other.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cMe entristece ver la p\u00e9rdida de vidas en nuestra ciudad durante el \u00faltimo d\u00eda.\u00a0Mi coraz\u00f3n est\u00e1 con las madres y los hijos de aquellos que perdimos y entiendo el miedo y la frustraci\u00f3n que sienten nuestros vecinos. Estamos sufriendo, pero conf\u00edo en que los residentes de Allenton encontrar\u00e1n un camino para curarse.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Quiero que nuestros residentes sepan que estamos aqu\u00ed para ayudar.\u00a0Si se siente abrumado, estresado o enojado, los proveedores de atenci\u00f3n m\u00e9dica pueden ayudarlo. La salud mental es clave para la salud de nuestra comunidad, y tanto nuestras redes de hospitales como nuestros socorristas est\u00e1n aqu\u00ed para servir. Nuestra polic\u00eda es capaz y responde tanto a emergencias vecinales como a disputas vecinales. Estamos aqu\u00ed para ayudar.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Repetir\u00e9 lo que dije en la manifestaci\u00f3n de ayer contra las armas ilegales en Harrisburg.\u00a0La presencia maligna de armas ilegales es una toxina en Allentown.\u00a0<\/em><em>Les pido a nuestros legisladores que se unan conmigo para sacar las armas de fuego de las calles de nuestra ciudad. Cuando tenemos calles seguras, les damos la oportunidad de prosperar a los residentes de Pensilvania.\u00a0El departamento de polic\u00eda de Allentown ha retirado m\u00e1s de 350 armas de la calle desde principios de 2022, y la Asamblea General de Pensilvania puede ayudar aprobando leyes que exijan la denuncia del robo de armas, mejorando las verificaciones de antecedentes y promulgando \u00f3rdenes de protecci\u00f3n contra riesgos extremos.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Nuestra salud y seguridad est\u00e1n unidas, y podemos ser mejores cuando nos ayudamos unos a otros.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>-Matt Tuerk<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 24, 2022 \u2013 Allentown Mayor Matt Tuerk shares the following message regarding the recent violence in the City: \u201cI&#8217;m sad to see the loss of life in our City &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=117061\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Message from Mayor Tuerk on Recent Violence in Allentown<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117062,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5716,69,482],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-allentown","category-in-the-valley","category-press-release-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/message-from-the-mayor.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117061"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=117061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/117062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}