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Scene of the crime: 'It's spreading, spreading more over here'
Chicago Tribune ^ | July 26, 2014 | Peter Nickeas

Posted on 07/27/2014 6:38:14 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement

The 3-year-old boy was outside with his mother, her boyfriend and another man about 10 p.m. Friday night in the Brighton Park neighborhood on the Southwest Side.

The child isn’t old enough to know what a Satan’s Disciple or Two-Sixer is, let alone comprehend all the things that can mean in a neighborhood like this one. But in Chicago, gang conflicts have a way of consuming the neighborhoods where they occur and noncombatants often become an unwilling and unknowing participant.

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TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: chicago; gangs
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"that occasionally climax with gunfire..." Misguided yoots, aspiring rappers and "turning his/her life around." We have a new motto.
1 posted on 07/27/2014 6:38:14 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement
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The 3-year-old boy was outside with his mother, her boyfriend and another man about 10 p.m.

Can anyone spot the problem(s) in this scenario?

2 posted on 07/27/2014 6:42:54 AM PDT by Steely Tom (How do you feel about robbing Peter's robot?)
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I’m guessing the 3-year old also was sucking on a baby bottle with red drank in it. No shirt, no shoes, and a Huggie...


3 posted on 07/27/2014 6:44:36 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: ConservativeStatement

And Rahm wants to import 7,000 illegal kids from Central America


4 posted on 07/27/2014 6:48:57 AM PDT by ken5050 ("One useless man is a shame, two are a law firm, three or more are a Congress".. John Adams)
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how's that Stop Snitchin working out for ya you chickenheads you...


5 posted on 07/27/2014 7:00:49 AM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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I wouldn’t guess the collective IQ in that photo to be over 14.

I would guess that at least three of the four are dead or in prison.

Yeah, I know that sounds like profiling. It’s also being honest.


6 posted on 07/27/2014 7:06:49 AM PDT by boycott
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To: ConservativeStatement

The youth gangs are a spreading cancer in our cities. It’s not just big cities either. Many smaller cities have gang problems too.

We should declare war on the gangs. How to do that without losing civil liberties, I do not know. But I do know that the youth gangs are at war with us. They are feral, uncivilized savages. They settle all slights, real and imagined, with violence. They are a threat to the survival of civilization itself, in my opinion.

Liberals don’t often get concerned about the gangs. Perhaps because liberals are afraid of perceptions of racism if they say anything. The liberals want us all to fight this nebulous threat of global warming, when there are major threats to our ongoing daily existence which they ignore.


7 posted on 07/27/2014 7:18:18 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego (s)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

We are importing gang members thru our immigration policies.


8 posted on 07/27/2014 7:34:59 AM PDT by kabar
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To: Steely Tom

Sure the boy ought to have been in bed maybe, but maybe this was some occasion that got special treatment. For God’s sake, have some humanity, who in the hell cares what time he was supposed to go to bed!!!!


9 posted on 07/27/2014 7:41:16 AM PDT by Shimmer1 (Ok, the joke's over. Bring back the Constitution.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

The tighter the government controls guns, the worse the problem. Just as guns are a divisive issue in the progressive ranks, because feminists know that guns are the great equalizer, urban metro sexual men are figuring it out as well. Poindexter with a Glock 17 and a little training is not something these gang folk want to see.


10 posted on 07/27/2014 7:57:44 AM PDT by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
liberals don't often get concerned about the gangs.

Elitists, liberal and conservatives, have built highways and other construction projects that are like moats keeping the chaos confined and away from where they live and work.

There are a few real threats to that status quo. One is central american hordes being moved into communities, many of which have seen the effects of Somali and other refugees over the past few years. Move those "children" into the schools, and the gang violance and drug and sex trafficking will follow.

Another threat is idle youth in their mid and upper 20s who have got to be put to work. I could see the thug culture spreading to that population if they aren't.

11 posted on 07/27/2014 8:06:04 AM PDT by grania
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prolly right
12 posted on 07/27/2014 8:08:38 AM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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For God’s sake, have some humanity, who in the hell cares what time he was supposed to go to bed!!!!

Obviously not his mother.

13 posted on 07/27/2014 8:11:30 AM PDT by Steely Tom (How do you feel about robbing Peter's robot?)
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What happened in Cedar Rapids/Solon last week...? 5 yuuts meet 2 cc’s in Solon Ia.


14 posted on 07/27/2014 8:25:00 AM PDT by rusureitflies?
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hussein is bringing the whole country down to his hometown standards.


15 posted on 07/27/2014 8:49:17 AM PDT by bgill
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To: Steely Tom

I am sure that his mother was what I would consider slack and stupid, but he didn’t die because his mom let him stay out too late, but because of those damn gang bangers, including his mom of course. They should be shot on sight. THEY should, not the boy.


16 posted on 07/27/2014 8:55:39 AM PDT by Shimmer1 (Ok, the joke's over. Bring back the Constitution.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Until fathers decide to stay in the lives of their children and actively raise them, the situation will remain the same or get worse.


17 posted on 07/27/2014 8:56:13 AM PDT by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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They should be shot on sight. THEY should, not the boy.

I'm in full agreement with you there.

18 posted on 07/27/2014 9:07:08 AM PDT by Steely Tom (How do you feel about robbing Peter's robot?)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
I've been reading about gang problems in the big and not so big cities for the past fifty years. Everybody wrings their hands and either does nothing or blames Whitey for the problem. The culprits, the killers, are never blamed.

What is the solution? Get the culprits off the streets and punish them severely when caught. Profiling will have to be involved. And of course, that will never happen, and the killings will go on.

19 posted on 07/27/2014 9:10:10 AM PDT by driftless2 (For long term happiness, learn how to play the accordion.)
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The 3-year-old boy was outside with his mother, her boyfriend and another man about 10 p.m......Can anyone spot the problem(s) in this scenario?

Your comment lacks the cultural diversity element of the dahood...

We should not impose the white anglo saxon standards of raising children...on the black community...

You know things like: "early to bed, early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise"...

That'd be racist...

/S

20 posted on 07/27/2014 10:30:27 AM PDT by Popman ("Resistance to Tyrants is Obedience to God" - Thomas Jefferson)
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