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Gang life, not racism, is responsible for Chicago's violence, alderman says
Washington Examiner ^ | June 19, 2021 07:00 AM | Jeremy Beaman, Breaking News Reporter | |

Posted on 06/19/2021 8:06:26 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

Residents in one Chicago ward are “giving up” on calling the police as the city fails to protect them from violent crime, according to one city council member.

Alderman Raymond Lopez described the violence plaguing his constituents in the city’s 15th Ward and beyond, slamming Democratic Mayor Lori Lightfoot, whose law enforcement policies and focus on systemic racism, he said, are doing little to stop the mostly gang-related violence.

“Generational gang life isn’t just something that’s encouraged. It’s almost revered in some neighborhoods,” Lopez, whose constituents are about 67% Latino and 22% black, told the Washington Examiner in an interview. “If you really want to get to what is at the heart of a lot of this, it is gangs, and it is the borderline collapse of the family unit in many of our neighborhoods ... [Lightfoot] has avoided calling out gangs in our community as a source of violence in our city.”

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: 15thward; blackkk; chicago; genderdysphoria; homosexualagenda; illinois; jeremybeaman; lorilightfoot; raymondlopez
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1 posted on 06/19/2021 8:06:26 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Gang life not racism... the obvious issue for years.


2 posted on 06/19/2021 8:09:17 AM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Lightfoot is so FUGLY, she should have 2 masks on. One for her eyes. Same with G wHitler, Nazi P and Marxine W.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=maxine+waters+memes&t=osx&iax=images&ia=images


3 posted on 06/19/2021 8:12:32 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

A lot of truth from that Democrat, but he also wants to be mayor of Shitcago.


4 posted on 06/19/2021 8:13:41 AM PDT by KeyLargo
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To: All

The destruction of the family is the biggest issue facing America and that goes for all races.


5 posted on 06/19/2021 8:15:04 AM PDT by escapefromboston (Free Assange )
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To: PGalt

She may be an ugly little person, but it doesn’t have anything to do with how she looks.


6 posted on 06/19/2021 8:15:07 AM PDT by The Antiyuppie (When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day., )
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To: KeyLargo

As it stands now, he would be a good choice...


7 posted on 06/19/2021 8:16:32 AM PDT by Freedom56v2 (If I wanted to live in China, I would move there!)
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To: The Antiyuppie

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.


8 posted on 06/19/2021 8:17:57 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

And fatherless homes are responsible for gang life.


9 posted on 06/19/2021 8:18:12 AM PDT by Petrosius
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To: The Antiyuppie

She’s so FUGLY...when driving down the fwy at 60mph even bugs jump off her windshield.

: )


10 posted on 06/19/2021 8:21:04 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

11 posted on 06/19/2021 8:22:54 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

And, gang life springs from lack of parenting, driven by socialist welfare programs that promote the destruction of the nuclear family.


12 posted on 06/19/2021 8:23:32 AM PDT by PubliusMM (RKBA; a matter of fact, not opinion. The Dhimmicraps are ALL Traitors. All of them.)
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To: PGalt

She’d make a freight train take a dirt road.

CC


13 posted on 06/19/2021 8:23:54 AM PDT by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
“If you really want to get to what is at the heart of a lot of this, it is gangs, and it is the borderline collapse of the family unit in many of our neighborhoods ... [Lightfoot] has avoided calling out gangs in our community as a source of violence in our city.”

This can't come as a surprise to anyone in Chicago. Yet, BLM thinks defunding the police is a good idea and BugEyes is going along with it. If the blacks in Chicago are paying attention and they want their neighborhoods back, her policies aren't the answer and it's up to you to do something about it at the ballot box. No one else can help you if you won't help yourself.

14 posted on 06/19/2021 8:24:11 AM PDT by econjack
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Indeed.

I seem to recall that it was a Detroit police chief that said that virtually all the crime comes down to about 8,000 people in the entire greater Detroit area.

Think about that. A relatively small group of habitual criminals are keeping a much larger number of people in fear, their crimes are justly and correctly driving away investment which means they are also helping to keep their families and neighbors in relative poverty, on top of that and hopelessness it adds to they are drawing future generations into shortened lives of crime after them ... destroying future potential along with the present.

This is why I keep saying that if every last gang banger or any race died one fine day the lot of a great many Americans, notably the gang’s former neighbors those who all would need to have their alibis in order and would swear they didn’t hear or see anything (the government cannot do this), would see their lives and prospects greatly improve as crime rates collapsed, particularly violent crime rates. People would no longer be living in fear, their children no longer be turned into soldiers for the gangs or poisoned with narcotics to help gang finance, and without the violent habitual criminals local commerce could resume unhindered and prosperity start to return.

But of course all that highlights why the Revolution minded Left may want the gangs to remain. They want people to be angry and unhappy because that’s the sort of people who will listen to them the most.


15 posted on 06/19/2021 8:25:02 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: The Antiyuppie

Exactly!

The ugliness of ideology is the real deal.


16 posted on 06/19/2021 8:26:19 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Take away their guns and they will move on to Molotov Cocktails and Drive By Hit and Runs.

There is nothing more dangerous that combining Evil with Human Ingenuity.

Besides, isn’t Murder already against the Law? How is that working out in Chicago?

Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice...


17 posted on 06/19/2021 8:27:13 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Trump - Make America Great Again / Biden - Make American Grovel Again...)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

They join gangs becaus white structural supremacist racism. And patriarchy...


18 posted on 06/19/2021 8:35:01 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

In every nation and city it is Satan’s animals running rampant in the world!


19 posted on 06/19/2021 8:37:47 AM PDT by high info voter
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Lightfoot’s looks....

May I repeat the old one——

If my dog were that ugly I’d shave his rear end and teach him to walk backwards.


20 posted on 06/19/2021 8:41:12 AM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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