Posted on 01/08/2017 10:14:51 PM PST by richardb72
Chicago is a bloody mess. Last year, Chicago had 762 homicides — more than New York and Los Angeles combined. This represents an astounding 57 percent increase from the 2015 murder rate.
On Sunday night, CBS’s 60 Minutes rightfully expressed concern about the fall in stops and arrests by police over the last year. Criminals have seemingly become emboldened as a result of the decrease in arrests. The 60 Minutes piece quotes Garry McCarthy — Chicago’s Police Superintendent up until a year ago — as saying that “officers are under attack, that is how they feel.”
This isn’t a new trend. The quality of Chicago’s policing has been deteriorating for decades. Back in 1991, 67 percent of murderers were arrested. When Mayor Richard M. Daley left office twenty years later, in 2011, the arrest rate was down to 30 percent. This troubling drop only continued after Rahm Emanuel became mayor, hitting a new low of 20 percent in 2016. (See graph below.) Unfortunately, the true number is even worse, because Chicago has been intentionally misclassifying murders, instead labeling them as subject to non-criminal “death investigations.”
Nationally, police solve 61.5 percent of murders — almost two out of every three. And, unlike Chicago’s arrest rate, the national rate has been fairly constant over the decades.. . .
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That is unexpected. Who would have guessed that the national #BlackThugsMatter rhetoric blaming police when they defend themselves or civilians against attack would lead to more violent crime against civilians?
Illegal drugs = gangs = murders.
Somehow people cannot understand the equation.
Yes, and...restored constitution=freedom=life.
The single city of Chicago (population ~2.7 million) had 157 more murders last year than ALL of Canada (population ~35 million) had in 2015!
Torture victim gofundme up to $139k. Rumor trump was going to match. Not sure how that got started.
Tha gated community organizers, the well-protected, the elites are unconcerned. “Never let a crisis go to waste” - Rham
This fuels multiple agendas (eugenics, gun-control, progressive profile, etc., etc.)
PING
This Constitution is wholly inadequate unless the people be just and moral.
Restore Moral (Godly) America = Restore Constitutonal Government = Freedom
I would tweak the equation just a bit:
Joining a gang replaces godless and mostly fatherless households = illegal activity (mostly selling drugs) = murders over turf, initiation and gang pride.
From a purely secular perspective, the following changes might help resolve gang problems: (1) create federal incentives and disincentives to strengthen the nuclear family. This would mean changing current welfare programs/policies, which destroy families; (2) stop exporting jobs and start to vigorously export illegals who are taking jobs from men in big cities; (3) start to vigorously prosecute businesses and individuals who hire illegals; (4) create a public school system that separates learners from gang bangers and from habitually disruptive and violent students. (5) for lesser crimes, sentence/send gang bangers to serve in the military. If they wash out, send them to prison as part of the terms of sentencing.
The number as of today is 796. The website HeyJackass counts the wounded who died later in the hospital as part of the murder totals. 2016 will pass 800 Chicago murders in the next few weeks.
Illegal drugs + gangs + ACLU = record low homcide clearance rate
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