[Godwin1]

This is dangerous: the social pathology is spreading from the ghettos where such appalling behavior is tolerated and, in many cases, rationalized. Until now, the violence and dysfunction has been largely confined to those sections of the city where the criminals live. If Rahm Emmanuel permits this behavior to spread beyond the minority neighborhoods, Chicago is lost. We are near a tipping point. There is no reason Chicago could not go the way of Detroit. The city public schools are already lost and people with kids must go to the suburbs or pay for private schools, like Obama did when he lived here, like Emmanuel does now. If public order declines city wide, turn out the lights. No middle class person, white or Black, will be able to stay.

[EDINVA]

A few years ago there was a vicious street crime in Georgetown, DC, generally one of the safest, most upscale parts of the city. Around the same time there was sudden ‘street crime’ near the National Mall with the monuments, Smithsonian., etc. Pretty much unheard of!
The perps were ‘young people’ who’d crossed town. That was cracked down on REAL fast. The powers-that-be that allow/disregard crime in ‘certain’ neighborhoods won’t allow, and cannot afford, crime in others.

[MarkL]

Frankly, I think that Chicago is a "test case," where Emmanuel is "grooming" Chicago, as part of a plan by Valerie Jarret to declare martial law, and see how much they can get away with. Possibly getting this to spread to other cities.

Mark