Posted on 06/29/2021 8:41:05 AM PDT by KeyLargo
Reaping the Whirlwind
We used to do a feature for the New Year every so often. We'd make predictions about the upcoming year – local, state, national politics, some sports stuff, some off-the-wall things. It was entertaining.
We also used to do a regular weekend prediction (centered around the holidays), predicting the maimings and killings that seem to infect Chicago on a regular basis. We drew upon the experience of multiple decades working multiple Districts not only of our writers, but our friends, acquaintances and readers. Statistics are an interesting field of study, and not to brag, but we spent a few years doing number crunching. It served us well over the years to the everlasting disappointment of our bookie.
Sad to say, we were pretty close on more than a few weekends predicting Chicago bloodshed. There were some weekends that relieved and/or shocked us, both in terms of missing or excess mayhem, but this June....
Wow.
Three mass shootings (using whatever made-up definition the media manufactures today) within twenty-four hours this past weekend. Six mass shootings (perhaps more by the time this gets published) for the month. Almost certainly four HUNDRED wounded by the end of June with a probably eighty homicides (Chicago is sitting on seventy-seven as of Monday). (All stats from the HeyJackass.com website.)
How could this happen? What could have caused this all? Isn't there anything that could have been done to stop it?
All these questions, while we open up the CWB blog and read story after story after story:
A carjacking in Bucktown, two more Avondale, shots fired during another jacking on the Gold Coast; A guy on bail for multiple felony charges found with a gun; Another felon – on bail for gun offenses – caught with another gun; A tourist from Maryland murdered by a guy wanted for multiple attacks. And that's just the first two pages.
Anyone know what Mayor Lightfoot and the Fifty Thieves in the City Council are doing?
Renaming Lake Shore Drive? What the actual heck? How much is that one going to cost taxpayers for signage alone?
What is Kim Foxx up to? Foxx is blaming the Chicago Police for....get this....arresting the wrong people!
"Foxx’s office this week held a webinar for journalists with data visualizations about a steady increase in Chicago police arrests of people who have no prior convictions but are caught illegally carrying a gun. It’s an approach that dragged more than 1,400 people into the criminal justice system last year. Those that are convicted get a label that dims job and life prospects and arguably decreases public safety in the long term." “The evidence doesn’t show that the drivers of the violence are the people who’ve been arrested for nonviolent gun offenses,” wrote Sarah Sinovic, a spokeswoman for the office, referring to illegal possession of firearms. “State’s Attorney Foxx has long said we need to invest more in violence prevention and a more holistic approach to address the root causes of violence.” "Illinois bans gun possession without a valid firearm owner’s ID card. Even with a FOID, people who carry guns in vehicles must keep them unloaded if they are accessible in places like the glove compartment or under a seat." "According to data visualizations displayed by Foxx’s office during the webinar, CPD gun arrests have nearly doubled since 2014. That increase is mainly due to arrests for gun possession, a crime that Foxx’s office deems “nonviolent” because the gun is not used or fired."
Do you know which morons made mere "gun possession" into a crime? That would be the legislature. They make laws. It's kind of their job. And while we may not believe they are correct and we actively work against them via Second Amendment organizations, political contributions and voting, the fact remains that these individuals are breaking the duly enacted statutes of the State of Illinois.
Do you know which moron is supposed to prosecute the laws that are broken? That would be Kim Foxx, who has failed miserably. Foxx actually won reelection by hiding from reporters AND her opponent, refusing to debate or answer questions about her pro-felon policies. The Chicago media – the alleged "watchdogs" – allowed her to get away with it because it was the "COVID Election." Not only did Chicago's media refuse to press her with statistics, they outright ignored her opponent, and carried water for the entire leftist establishment advocating "defunding" along with stripping police of even the barest Constitutional protections.
This ongoing train wreck of incompetence and criminal coddling comes with a body count. How high it has to go before the "community" gets fed up with it is the question of the year.
Any predictions? Seven-hundred dead is a lock at this point. Maybe Superintendent Brown gets fired at six-hundred.
I thought SCC was cancelled.
Where is Mrs. O’Leary’s cow when we need her?
Chicago voted for this. Now they’re getting it.
Good and hard.
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It was so to speak (threats were made IIRC), but this is kind of a guest blog on another blog.
The voters elected Lightfoot. I am happy they are getting what they voted for.
And they will keep on doing it. Remind me again of the definition of insanity.
Plus William Tecumseh Sherman for Atlanta, Admiral Robert Ross for Washington, DC, the “Big One” for Los Angeles and San Francisco, etc.
I was pondering. We all enjoy the weekly football scores from chicago. Some of us enjoy mocking the media by making jokes about “teens”. (Sorry to blacks about my prolific use of such jokes, they truly are directed at the media and their perpetual absurdities)...anyway, off topic. My question is how would this crisis be solved, realistically? Short of imposed curfews, how do you stop it? Putting hundreds of “teens” in jail is probably going to cause a very negative reaction with the residents. Then you get some bad kids off the street..then what?
They either ended it or took it private.
I miss it.
And so do the law abiding citizens of Chicago, I’ll bet...
Second City Cop used to have his own blog, one that was updated almost daily. He bailed, I’m assuming under threat of exposure. He now posts occasionally at other sites, most recently at ‘Hey, Jackass’ and (in this case) at “Chicago Contrarian’. He is missed.
Picking the hottest time of the year...
1. Shut down all public transportation in Chicago.
2. Give all residents with means 24 hours to stay with relatives (including police - in fact, them a week off). Report on conservative media only.
3. After 24 hours, cut off water, sewer, electricity and internet service to the entire city for 72 hours.
4. review results, repeat if necessary until the number of homicides drop to zero.
Problem solved - without firing a shot.
just my $0.02
“My question is how would this crisis be solved, realistically?”
This carnage is, in my opinion, a function of culture rather than prejudice - and a large part of the problem is that the powers-that-be focus on racial prejudice (which exists, but much less so than it did several decades ago) and ignore the consequences of a ghetto culture that hates the cops more than it hates the gangs (which are responsible for much of the shooting, though not all).
Until that’s reversed, (and Groot and the alder-creatures have no interest in doing so), the murder and mayhem will continue and probably increase.
Were I to run for mayor (that’s a joke by the way) I’d give each neighborhood or police district a vote providing the option to continue with things as usual, or to impose restrictions resembling those in martial law, usually associated with extreme circumstances (if you want to consider 800+ murders a year extreme). Those restrictions would include any or all from the following menu: a curfew for those under a given age (19 or 21 or 25, whatever, take your pick; stop-and-frisk priveleges for law enforcement; prohibition of gathering of more than a given number of youths in the absence of adult supervision; and the like. I’m sure the cops could come up with others.
Even if approved in a given ‘kill zone’ (Englewood, Austin, Garfield Park, South Shore, Lawndale all come to mind), such actions would be opposed by the ACLU (from their safe enclaves in the burbs) and by some community activists (in the free-fire zones). And they might not pass legal muster - I have no idea. But short of a religious revival of blblical proportions, I can’t see anything else working.
Failure of civil rights movement was to make black not judged by merit by skin only.
By merit, Chicago city failed to manage their city. Fortunately the city leaders are black so the issue is ignored or skipped
I was watching a YT documentary on the origins of Star Trek the other day (really had nothing better to do), and they talked about how the networks weren't happy with the Lt. Uhura character, but Gene Roddenberry insisted he wanted a racially-mixed crew. This was in 1964, 57 years ago.
Far be it from me to second-guess the conventional wisdom, but equality of the races has been a subtext of popular culture and the mass media for more like six decades, maybe longer.
It was a subtext (albeit somewhat subtly) on Broadway going back to The King And I and Showboat at least; Showboat dates from 1927, which was 94 years ago. If I'm not mistaken, it was also a subtext of South Pacific. It was certainly part of many if not most sitcoms and popular TV shows since the 1960s.
A large-scale "religious revival" in New York and New England is where the emotional energy that touched off the first Democrat-Republican Civil War originated. That happened between 1820 and 1850. I'm not sure if it could be characterized as "biblical" in proportion, but it did happen.
Of course, Joe Biden (and other Democrats) have hinted that they will use nuclear weapons to put down another such cultural shift, so I don't know.
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