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Chicago police boss calls weekend gun violence 'completely unacceptable'
Chicago Tribune ^ | 5/9/2016 | Jeremy Gorner and Alexandra Chachkevitch

Posted on 05/10/2016 4:57:42 AM PDT by simpson96

Confronted with the bloodiest weekend in Chicago since being named police superintendent six weeks ago, Eddie Johnson on Monday called the gun violence "completely unacceptable" and said the dozens of shootings highlight "the uphill battle" confronting police.

More than 50 people were shot, eight fatally, between Friday afternoon and early Monday, the city's most violent weekend since the end of September, according to a Tribune analysis.

The tally included a 3 1/2-hour period early Saturday when one man was killed and 14 others were wounded — the equivalent of someone being shot every 14 minutes.

Chicago is already closing in on 200 homicides as the city endures its worst violence since the late 1990s. At this rate, the city is on pace to top 500 homicides for the year for only the second time since 2008.

(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: chicago; chicagomurder; chicagopolicechief; gangs
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To: simpson96; Condor51

Oooooooo! I’m certain that bit of rhetoric will convert all the drug-thugs and gang-bangers in Chicago! Did he send a scathing letter to the Southside?

Umm, that did NOT include the phrase, “GO Sox!”


21 posted on 05/10/2016 5:30:04 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym defines the science.)
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To: simpson96

I believe the record will show gun violence in Chicago is a weekly occurrence in Chicago. It is also a matter of record the media has little to say about it.


22 posted on 05/10/2016 5:32:22 AM PDT by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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To: simpson96

The violence in Chicago is simply the expression of third world values and culture. The same type of violence occurs daily in sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, Central America, and the gang controlled areas of Mexico.

The progressive elites of our society, who should be supplying real leadership, are instead encouraging, subsidizing, institutionalizing and celebrating the behavior. The latest progressive initiative, decriminalizing many crimes and releasing tens of thousands of felons from prisons, only adds fuel to the flames destroying our civilization.

Today the elites can shed false tears over the barbarism while enjoying the good life inside their guarded gated communities and penthouse apartments. Those who consider themselves intellectually superior continue to ignore the lessons of history. In every civilization when barbarism is allowed to gain a foothold, the savages eventually turn on the elites and breach the walls of the palaces. Those inside the walls eventually experience full the consequences of their failures.


23 posted on 05/10/2016 5:34:23 AM PDT by Soul of the South (Tomorrow is gone. Today will be what we make of it.)
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To: jazminerose
Can’t happen. Guns are illegal in Chicago.

I can not comprehend living any place where I could not carry.

I've been carrying since the 70s and feel nekked without at least one little friend with me. The area where I live is fairly safe, and we intend to keep it that way.

Peace through strength.

24 posted on 05/10/2016 5:34:26 AM PDT by USS Alaska (Exterminate the terrorist savages, everywhere.)
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To: Tupelo; Condor51
:: Until the citizens of Chicago rise up and take back their town, the Bosses can change the Police chief and the head of the sanitation department all they want and nothing will change. ::

Sanitation?
One name identified under the Little-Dick Daly regime, (did I compose that improperly?).

Torres!

25 posted on 05/10/2016 5:35:36 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym defines the science.)
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To: areukiddingme1
Of course all the "gun control" laws in Chicago are failures, just as "gun control" laws are failures every where and every time.

Criminals break laws, only the law-abiding actually follow them. Liberals don't give a flying rip about public safety - they want an excuse to disarm the populace. Modern liberalism really has fascist roots. They want power and control. You want freedom and liberty? Say the freedom to choose not to bake a cake for someone? Unacceptable, liberals want the power to force you to. Fascists, the vast multitude of which can't even see it. The irony is, they think they are enlightened when just the opposite is true.

You watch, the predictable and unavoidable failure of strict "gun control" laws in Chicago won't be blamed on their fundamentally flawed premise. No, they will start floating the notion that what is needed is total disarmament and confiscation. That if there simply were not guns around in law abiding citizens' hands, there wouldn't be guns for the criminals to steal and use. I know, naive to the point of being idiotic. But true safety and reduction of gun violence isn't their goal - disarmament is. So they will float this notion.

26 posted on 05/10/2016 5:36:20 AM PDT by ThunderSleeps (Stop obarma now! Stop the hussein - insane agenda!)
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To: simpson96
Eddie Johnson on Monday called the gun violence "completely unacceptable"

How much of the taxpayers' money is this guy being paid to dress up as:


27 posted on 05/10/2016 5:36:28 AM PDT by Carl Vehse
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To: Texas Fossil
>> Chicago does not have a gun problem, they have a people domestic savage problem.

Also note, it's not an Illinois problem. But the direct result of total RAT control in Chicago.

28 posted on 05/10/2016 5:36:33 AM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Trump: A Bull in a RINO closet.)
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To: simpson96

The people shot couldn’t have agreed more.


29 posted on 05/10/2016 5:37:23 AM PDT by SkyDancer ("Nobody Said I Was Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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To: simpson96

Ya Think?? Well, maybe in a moral city that is.


30 posted on 05/10/2016 5:37:24 AM PDT by Mouton (The insurrection laws maintain the status quo now.)
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To: simpson96

Oh and more gun laws.


31 posted on 05/10/2016 5:37:41 AM PDT by SkyDancer ("Nobody Said I Was Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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To: Soul of the South; All

Spot on! And worthy of review.

Chicago is the modern advancement of “tribal culture”.


32 posted on 05/10/2016 5:38:14 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym defines the science.)
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To: simpson96

33 posted on 05/10/2016 5:43:02 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

agree.


34 posted on 05/10/2016 5:44:00 AM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: simpson96

That much gunfire going on in one weekend, and the police cat find the perps? THAT is what is “unacceptable”.


35 posted on 05/10/2016 5:44:23 AM PDT by FrankR (You're only enslaved to the extent of the charity that you receive!)
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To: simpson96

Unacceptable? Absolutely. At this rate the Thinning of the Herd will take far too long.


36 posted on 05/10/2016 5:44:32 AM PDT by Auntie Dem (Hey! Hey! Ho! Ho! Terrorist lovers gotta go!)
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To: T-Bone Texan
Until we are perfectly frank, and call it by it's more appropriate name, in fact they are worse than useless..

It is as it's suppose to be... That's the plan, to use crime and black drug gangs as an excuse to disarm American and send us into the waiting arms of chaos and communism...

Anyone who says this is not true is a complete IDIOT..!

MHO......

37 posted on 05/10/2016 5:44:36 AM PDT by unread (Joe McCarthy was right.......)
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To: simpson96

And now a rundown on those stats:

http://heyjackass.com/


38 posted on 05/10/2016 5:44:40 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
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To: All

Stop paying Chicagoans to breed.


39 posted on 05/10/2016 5:46:49 AM PDT by Maverick68
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

Totally Unacceptable! 50 shot and 8 dead. I believe more range time is needed.


40 posted on 05/10/2016 5:47:05 AM PDT by oldasrocks (They should lock all of you up and only let out us properly medicated people.)
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