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Police promise more patrols as West Side bears brunt of Memorial Day gun violence
Chicago Tribune ^ | 05/29/2016 | Peter Nickeas , Grace Wong and Joe Mahr

Posted on 05/29/2016 10:23:36 AM PDT by DFG

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To: Dilbert San Diego

“What will it take to get a handle on the gang violence among minorities, which we aren’t supposed to mention because it would be racist??”

The violence is not a local policy issue. It is not a policing issue. It is a cultural issue. Federal and state government have created generations of fatherless feral people who kill as casually as some people smoke a cigarette. The solution would be to reverse the dreadful rules and regulations that create this gimme culture. No more payments for people making their living off having fatherless children. That would be a great start. But changing a way of life will be painful and probably politically impossible.


21 posted on 05/29/2016 11:05:14 AM PDT by Gen.Blather
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To: Mr. Mojo

Chicago has become a war zone. Long past due for the governor to call out the National Guard, impose a curfew, and authorize shoot-to-kill for looters, rioters, gangbangers. Oh, and arresting Dead Fish & his henchmen would be appropriate, as well.


22 posted on 05/29/2016 11:13:53 AM PDT by twister881 (Politics)
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To: DFG

From a comment at the site:

“$55,000 is the average ER/Hospital cost per shooting victim in Chicago.

1494 is the current shooting victim count.

1100 black shooting victims.

11 white shooting victims.”

white racism is the problem!/s


23 posted on 05/29/2016 11:36:26 AM PDT by dynachrome (When an empire dies, you are left with vast monuments in front of which peasants squat to defecate)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
As distressed as we all are about these events, no way that the Democrats who have run these cities for generations can blame any of it on Republicans.

Milwaukee has identical problems. In Milwaukee they blame Republican Governor Scott Walker. There is always some useless, expensive program that Walker helped cut that they use as an excuse to blame him.

Being a Democrat means never being responsible.

24 posted on 05/29/2016 11:43:38 AM PDT by Senator_Blutarski
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To: DFG

I keep seeing articles like this every week from the Chicago Tribune, are they nothing more than a bunch of drugged out hippies experiencing frequent flashbacks from too much LSD during their youth??

EVERYBODY KNOWS, that in Chicago GUNS ARE ILLEGAL!!!

So what gives?? Do they have a Drug Testing policy at the Paper?? They really need one if they don’t. And if they do, it Aint Working!


25 posted on 05/29/2016 11:52:55 AM PDT by eyeamok
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To: DFG

Black Lives Don’t Matter In Chicago


26 posted on 05/29/2016 12:11:33 PM PDT by Lexington Green (Why isn't Hillary in jail?)
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To: Lexington Green

I would argue that black urban subculture lives don’t matter in Chicago.


27 posted on 05/29/2016 12:13:07 PM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;+12, 73, ....Opabinia can teach us a lot)
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To: DFG

That place was a hell hole decades ago. I can’t imagine how bad it is now.


28 posted on 05/29/2016 12:28:42 PM PDT by Trillian
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To: Dilbert San Diego
"What will it take to get a handle on violence, in these Democrat run cities??"

Pretty simple, really, just implement "stop and frisk" like under Giuliani in NYC.

Turned a hell-hole in the 80s to a livable city.

Take illegal guns away from people who shouldn't have them.

Kind of like what the NRA supports.

29 posted on 05/29/2016 4:18:22 PM PDT by boop ("A Republic, if you can keep it."-Franklin, 1787. "We couldn't keep it"-America, 2016)
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Re: West Side bears brunt of Memorial Day gun violence

If “gun violence” is truly the problem, then why don’t white rural areas have similar shootings? The rate of gun ownership is many of these areas is astronomical, yet there are no shootings.


30 posted on 05/30/2016 8:21:03 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA (war is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength, obama loves America)
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