Posted on 05/31/2013 12:04:25 PM PDT by massmike
Congressman Bobby Rush and Senator Mark Kirk are at odds over how to crackdown on gang violence in Chicago.
Politicians talk about all the time about solving Chicago's devastating street violence problem and the latest talk has pitted one Illinois lawmaker against another.
After meeting with the nominee for U.S. attorney Wednesday, Kirk spoke about the use of federal laws to go after one of the largest gangs in Chicago, the Gangster Disciples,with mass arrests.
"I think it is completely within the capability of the United States government to crush a major urban gang," Kirk said.
Chicago Congressman Bobby Rush blasted Kirk's comments. He told the Chicago Sun-Times that the senator's proposal is "an elitist white boy solution to a problem he knows nothing about."
Congressman Danny Davis admits that he would not have used the language that Rush used.
"I guess he meant as exactly what he said but I interpret as him saying this is not an approach that would be helpful to the problems of violence," Davis said.
However, Davis says he is shocked at Kirk's approach. Locking people up in already overcrowded prisons is not the answer, he said.
Congressman Rush was not available for an interview Thursday.
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another reason to not visit shitcago.
I live in rural NC surrounded by dairy farms and corn fields. So, I couldn’t give a rat’s tail if a bunch of gangsters and uncivilized urban cretins kill each other 700 miles away.
Well, there’s always “Fat Man and Little Boy”. That would eliminate both the gangstas AND the cost of incarceration.
Oh my...That’s Sexist AND “Sizist”, isn’t it?
Sounds racist to me.
Blacks really need to shut their mouths with the “white boy” nonsense.
I’ve often wondered why the RICO act isn’t used on the gangs. Not enough courts, prosecutors and prisons?
He’s right! It is a useless idea. Shoot every known gang member on sight. Kill a gang member, save an innocent life.
Gang members are domestic terrorists, owed no rights, better off dead.
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