Lets call it what it is. This is gang warfare. In Chicago, many of the killings over the last few years have been hits. Its no more random robberies. Its gangs wielding their power. Mostly its in two black communities, on the west and south sides.
If the city and the communities wanted to get rid of it, it would happen. The reality is that the gangs have infiltrated. They are in the politics. They are in the local businesses. They are in the neighborhoods. They are in the schools.
Yes there is the heartache of the baby who’s life ends as a result of a stray bullet, or the promising teenager gunned down before they can escape the “hood”. But these have gotten too common. Every weekend we get a fist full of shootings. And every month there is at least one child being gunned down.
The politicians say its poverty, its guns, its education, its lack of jobs. But the reality is, that we have all those issues in other places. And we don’t have problems like these. Gangs and drugs are the issue. All the rest is corollary or responsive.
” Mostly its in two black communities, on the west and south sides.”
Seems they’ve expanded their sphere of interest:
http://heyjackass.com/2017-deadliest-hoods/
Always worthwhile to scroll around “Hey Jackass: Illustrating Chicago Values”
Any talk of a “race war” has to factor in this drug war in which 90%+ of the victims are from the “other side”...