Chicago Regains Dubious Homicide Title

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[glorgau]

I was just talking to a friend who is a fireman stationed on the south side. He lives in the far northwest side. He said that it was like martial law on New Years Day. Squads of cops everywhere. It's standard practice for the fireman to get bottles and rocks thrown at them on virtually every run.

The south side is a war zone, the north side (with limitations) is a wonderful city. Myself, I live downtown in a high rise. I love it.

[spudsmaki]

When the hell are the dumbass zombies that keep voting for the politicians in chi town going to wake the hell up?

Carefull how you talk about my grandparents. They just can't help being registered Dems in Chicago. They've been dead 35 years, how can you read a voter guide when you're dead?

[libstripper]

Something went terribly wrong for the gang bangers in Detroit--Michigan passed shall issue CCW. Detroit's murder score will never be the same again.

[Clemenza]

Chicago is interesting in that the CPD has adopted the strategy of "containment." In other words: keep the violence limited to certain sections of the city, preventing it from spreading too far north. I happened to live in the poorest part of the Northside (Uptown) and still felt safer than when I lived in the wealthiest neighborhood on the Southside (Hyde Park).

Here in New York, by contrast, the Cops since Giuliani have been going into the worst nabes in the city and crime has been reduced even in the South Bronx and Central Brooklyn. Thousands of black men have had their lives saved by NYPD action as a result, but you will never here Al Sharpton or Charles Barron (the local equivalent of Bobby Rush) admit this.

[Barnacle]

but you will never here Al Sharpton or Charles Barron (the local equivalent of Bobby Rush) admit this.

Or the media for that matter. It seems that there is a faction here in America determined to suppress such information; information that could benefit public awareness and influence official policy decisions.

The suppression of such crucial information is tantamount to misinformation and is a detriment of our country. Such dereliction of performance on behalf of the public trust is hardily what I'd call patriotic. In fact, I think it qualifies as the antithesis of patriotism. There must be a word for that. What would it be... treason?

Thank God for Free Republic.