Posted on 02/25/2017 6:00:43 AM PST by GonzoII
The Chicago Police Department conducted a series of overnight raids from Thursday into Friday that resulted in 81 arrests, mostly for drug- and weapons-related offenses, Supt. Eddie Johnson said Friday.
The raids, focused on the city's South and West Side neighborhoods, were "focused on the underlying source of crime in these areas: the sale of narcotics," Johnson said at a press conference Friday afternoon.
Of the 81 people arrested, Johnson said 61 are previously convicted felons, 49 are documented gang members, 19 have previously been arrested on gun charges, 14 are currently on parole, and 65 have been previously identified by police to be at a higher risk to be a victim or offender of gun violence.
"There are repeat gun offenders that one, don't care they're on parole, two, don't care about the fact they're already previously convicted felons," Johnson said.
Police are still looking for 40 people targeted in the raids, and said another raid in the coming weeks will have federal assistance.
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"On the same page" how? Are you suggesting that the feds' violating the tenth is justified by nonuniformity of state drug policy?
the standard in the black community is to worship their "boys" in all ways...
I think they even encourage their behavior....
But is that out of admiration or fear?
The police are getting increasingly confident that they will have the backing to do their jobs. Yes, the Trump effect is in play already. Little by little, we are taking the “bad actors” off the streets.
When in Chicago, stay on the highways! And keep your gas tank full.
Fear. Fear of the gang bangers coming back to shoot them if they "snitch" and fear of the police (rightly or wrongly.)
It's NOT a good situation for those good people who are stuck in such bad neighborhood's and situations.
Indeed starting to sound like the old radio program GANG BUSTERS.
Where did I say it was justified?
"On the same page" how? Are you suggesting that the feds' violating the tenth is justified by nonuniformity of state drug policy?
Where did I say it was justified?
I didn't say you said so; I asked a question, to which your answer seems to be "no".
So does "on the same page" mean all enforcing the policy the feds want? I suppose if they did, the feds might step out of that enforcement; what would you have us conclude from this observation? (Or was it just an idle musing?)
Most don’t realize that the Marines and the Guard and the Army have been on American Streets many times since Little Rock in the fifties with fixed bayonets and guns loaded and people died.
So, what I propose, or suggest maybe, is not out of the realm of possibility.
True. Baddest man in the d*mn town.
Don’t get me started on the drug mess. I’d just as soon let anyone dumb enough to use the crap knock themselves out, do it to their heart’s content, as long as I don’t have to support their behavior. But that’s not how it works. Take alcoholism, a BEHAVIOR with bad results. The damned liberals have made it into a disease for which I have to pay in the form of increased taxes to help those “suffering” from this “disease”. If they can’t handle a drink they should not take one; if they do so with bad consequences it’s supposed to be at their own risk. When the potheads crack addicts and methheads have toked their way to unemployability, they’ll be “victims” of the next “disease (really a BEHAVIOR) and have their hand in my pocket like the alkies. Bottom line, why should I pay for their behaviors?
But policies should be consistent and well understood, fed, state and local.
So is that sufficient reason to ban alcohol? If not, why would it be sufficient reason to ban other drugs?
But policies should be consistent
Why? Part of the genius of federalism is that it lets the states be the "laboratories of democracy."
and well understood,
Certainly.
fed, state and local.
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