Summits are very popular with the Chicago crowd.
Posted on 09/02/2010 11:33:40 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA
CHICAGO -- The idea seemed simple though bold: Call reputed gang leaders to a meeting with top police and federal prosecutors and deliver an ultimatum to end killings in the nation's third-largest city.
But Chicago police Superintendent Jody Weis is facing mounting criticism for holding a so-called "gang summit" last month, even though several police departments across the country have relied on that approach for decades to help reduce crime.
Among the chief complaints: that Weis himself was at the meeting, that the department should instead be adding more officers on the streets and that gangs won't take the message seriously.
"What are we doing negotiating or having a sit-down with urban terrorists who are killing with guns and drugs on the streets?" Chicago Alderman Bob Fioretti said. "Gangs are not to be coddled."
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Summits are very popular with the Chicago crowd.
Hmmm.. what’s with the “7”-shaped head scare on 0bama...
scare=scar
Declare them all to be domestic terrorists (likewise the democrat party that supports them) and then issue an open letter of Marque on their worthless asses.
Besides not realizing that trying to negotiate with sub humans is MORONIC, J-Fled made the mistake of threatening gang bangers, telling them that police might actually begin arresting them if gang related crime did not cease! Can’t DO that to one of Mayor Daley’s premier voting blocs!!
“Hmmm.. what’s with the “7”-shaped head scare on 0bama...”
“And I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having ten horns and seven heads, and on his horns were ten diadems, and on his heads were blasphemous names.” Revelation 13:1
Hmmm seven heads or a seven-head?
You and I must watch the same shows....right out of an old Hill Street Blues script...
Sorry about Irah make it Iraq !!!!!I hope you did not miss the point????
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