Posted on 05/28/2016 12:27:58 PM PDT by Zakeet
The holiday weekend is often seen here as the start of heightened violence ... That has been particularly worrying this year to community leaders and city officials, as they grapple with a rise in gun violence that has traumatized some neighborhoods and left city officials searching for new ways to subdue street crime.
"If something doesn't change, if we don’t get jobs for these kids, if we don’t change the economic situation, I'm worried that we could be looking at a blood bath," said the Rev. Corey Brooks, a pastor on the city’s South Side, a mostly African-American area where some of the shootings have been concentrated. "If something doesn't happen, I fear that we're potentially looking at one of the worst summers we've ever had."
As of Friday morning, homicides in Chicago were up 52 percent in 2016, compared with the same period a year ago, and shootings had increased by 50 percent, though the pace of violence has slowed in recent weeks, the police said. Only five months into the year, at least 233 people have been killed.
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Chicago's population of 2.7 million is nearly equally split among whites, blacks and Hispanics, but most of the shootings have taken place in black and Hispanic neighborhoods on the city's South and West Sides, and the majority of the victims have been African-American.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
This weekend is long and warm; probably the first really good weather weekend in 2016. So people will be outside and getting in each others way. Rev. Corey Brooks should be encouraging his flock to get married and raise their children together, but most likely will be showing them how to fill out the forms to get stuff for free.
And if you don't do this I will have to cut back on teachers and first responders!
What do they call what they have now?
So... Things pretty much gonna stay the way they have been for about a hundred years?
yup
it’s hopeless...like herding cats..
The Second City Cop blog plans to accept the Hey Jackass numbers of shootings/deaths as the only official numbers.
“If something doesn’t change, if we don’t get jobs for these kids, if we don’t change the economic situation, I’m worried that we could be looking at a blood bath,” said the Rev. Corey Brooks, a pastor on the city’s South Side, a mostly African-American area where some of the shootings have been concentrated.”
Talk to your homey. He thinks he’s done miraculous things with the economy. Guess he doesn’t give a crap about you, eh? Didn’t 97% of “your people” vote for their brother?
Fourth of July is on a three-day weekend this year. With the rising temperatures factored in, a bloodbath there is very possible. Right now temps are moderate, but July is another story.
“If something doesn’t change, if we don’t get jobs for these kids, if we don’t change the economic situation, I’m worried that we could be looking at a blood bath,” said the Rev. Corey Brooks, a pastor on the city’s South Side, a mostly African-American area <<<
Hows that “Hope and Change” thingy workin out for ya reverend???..../s
yup
Obama’s people busy killing each other in the streets.... meanwhile this guy shows how one can come from nothing and aim high:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3433994/posts
How many employers want to hire people whose alternative to employment is murder?
As a “white” person I am not allowed in this PC world to even comment on the problems of inner-cities.
For me to even think I know of a solution would brand me a “racist” and wishing to commit “hate crimes”
The Democrats owned the big cities, they owned this problem.
I will sit on the side line quietly waiting for them to find a solution.
Meanwhile thousands of blacks die needlessly, but at least a white guy did not try offer solutions.
“if we don’t get jobs for these kids, if we don’t change the economic situation, I’m worried that we could be looking at a blood bath,” “
Bull***** !
There wasn’t rampant violence in the streets during The Great Depression.
These killers/shooters are just plain thugs.
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You go into scum neighborhoods and lock up all the violent POS protected species that filth like Rohm Emanuel make political hay on. While there you also lock up criminals LIKE Rohm the Marxist. Who is criminally negligent.
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