Gainey, Scirotto take the next steps in combating gun violence

MAYOR ED GAINEY, POLICE CHIEF LARRY SCIROTTO Mayor Ed Gainey says ‘comfortability’ is not an option & After nearly 800 days on the job, you’d proba­bly feel very comfortable on your job. But not Ed Gainey. Actually, don’t even act like you’re about to say the word “comfortable” around Pittsburgh’s first Black mayor. This is part two of the New Pittsburgh Cou­rier’s series entitled, “Mayor Gainey, Un­filtered,” following a 75-minute conversation the Courier’s editorial board had with Mayor Gainey in January 2024. And one could say that January 2024 offi­cially marked the start of “part two” of Mayor Gainey’s first four-year term. How was “part one,” or the first two years of Mayor Gainey’s term, received? ‘MAYOR GAINEY UNFILTERED’ A SPECIAL SERIES Pittsburgh’s Black community continues to feel as though the gun violence is the major issue. You don’t have to tell that to the mayor. He knows the impacts of violence all too well. His friend, Victor Mus­grove, a popular barber who owned VIP Styles Inc., in Downtown, was killed in a shooting in Clairton in August 2023. His sister, Janese Jack­son Talton, was killed in a shooting outside a bar in Homewood in 2016. As a longtime state...