"Too many guns, too few jobs, poor schools, bad police and climate change... is there anything we're missing?"
Good article....
The ACLU and Black Lives Matter are up to there necks in Chicago
The city of Chicago deserves the horrifying corrupt government they keep voting for. Let the feral animals kill each other, I just don’t care anymore.
BTW, where is Bath House Barry in all if this, Chicago is his city?
(.....crickets chirping....)
The real reason for Chicago’s crime wave is because Chicago is a Progressive Ghetto. Whether it be Baltimore, NYC, SF, Houston, LA, Portland, Seattle, etc. “Progressive” of Progressive Ghetto is the keyword.
First we obliterate the family through welfare, allowing the vacuum to be filled by gangs.
Then we de-emphasize education and the virtue of having a job.
Then we allow justice to be subverted through liberal sentencing policies.
And finally, we vilify the police, effectively making THEM the problem.
But no, it's guns. Yeah. Give me a break.
Meh - global warming.
"Too many guns, too few jobs, poor schools, bad police and climate change... is there anything we're missing?"
Lansing, Michigan had one Prosecutor in that office deputized as a Federal Prosecutor. He would handle gun cases in the Federal system instead of under state law. Almost all gun crimes were prosecuted Federally then including using a firearm in the commission of a crime.
Federal penalties for gun crimes are much, much harsher that state law penalties.
Criminals didn’t like that at all.
One prosecutor could hand let the Lansing cases.
Obviously Chicago isn’t the same size as Lansing, but Chicago should do the same thing with deputizing Cook County Prosecutors as US Attorneys for gun crimes
http://directives.chicagopolice.org/forms/CPD-11.910.pdf
For every stop a Chicago cop makes, he has to fill out this two page report thanks to the ACLU and BLM.
Or he can just keep driving.
The street gangs are the new rat ACORN organization. Rats will do nothing to impede them.
We have “Project Exile” here in Richmond, VA (such as it is). Simply stated, “if you get caught with an illegal gun, you went to federal prison for 5 years, this included people who were legally prohibited from owning a gun. The murder rate went down 40% in the first year. Over the last several years federal prosecutors essentially stopped accepting “Exile” cases, effectively neutering the program. The murder rate has been on the increase since that time.
No one "snitches" on them. That's right. The residents of the 'hood hate the police more than they fear the gang-bangers so even though those who live in these murder plagued neighborhoods know who's doing all the shooting, they don't cooperate with the police, period.
They then turn around and blame the police for never solving the crimes that happen in their neighborhoods.
The CPD is in a no-win situation and I don't know why the CPD doesn't simply resign in mass and let the city go into complete chaos.
Lord knows Chicago deserves it (and I say that as someone who lives outside Chicago and has commuted into the city for the better part of the last 30 years to work.)
Is Rahm Emmanuel to blame for this mess? No. Did he make it worse? Yes. Every time he kneels down before BLM and the ACLU ceding to their demands he makes it worse however make no mistake - this problem lies squarely within the crime-riddled neighborhoods themselves and those who live there.
No cooperation with the police means more and more crime by gang-banging thugs who have no fear of any consequences for their actions.
Let the animals kill each other.
I don’t give a Shiite.
When Hillary is in chains, swinging from a rope, I’ll believe in the justice system again.
In other words; this is what happens to any given leftist run city. Detroit, Baltimore, Portland, Seattle, SanFran, L.A., DC, Oakland, Austin, do I need to go on. They are all horrible places to live where the criminal element is basically allowed to run free and commit mayhem as desired. The leftist infection thrives and multiplies in that environment.
In my world that’s called HELL.
So can white males committing the same crimes as minorities be exempted from law enforcement and prosecution?
Chicago - The City Stuck On Stupid! Re-Elect Rahm. It’s the only way it will get better...cuz he’s a democrap!
How could the Chicago story be more representative of leftist policies. The hometown of obama, mayor rahm, a city with a rich history of Democrat corruption, strict gun control but rampant gang gun violence, and being run by the aclu and blm. All that’s left is for them to erect a giant gold statue of soros in the heart of the city.
The real reason for the problems in Chicago is that Piss Poor Parents are not doing the job they are commanded to do and are raising children to be of equal value.