Posted on 10/29/2021 10:35:11 AM PDT by Salman
The economic and cultural hub has seen the most shootings in years in 2021. The rise mirrors a citywide violent crime wave and threatens downtown’s recovery.
Deserted during the pandemic and battered by looting, downtown Chicago is grappling with a rise in violent crime that threatens the reputation of the city and its economic viability.
Murders, shootings, rapes and car thefts are all up sharply in the downtown area, prompting fears among residents and business owners similar to those that have long been a reality in struggling neighborhoods beyond the skyscrapers.
And some of the same frustrations.
“How do you suggest that we engage this problem going forward?” Mel Jones, from the Clark and Division Collaborative, asked police officials during a community meeting in mid-October.
“Do we just wear Kevlar vests at night?” he said. “Do we just watch businesses leave our community?”
Stepped-up efforts announced by the Chicago Police Department and City Hall haven’t kept violent crime from rising in the downtown area, according to a Chicago Sun-Times analysis of data from 16 beats in the Central, Near North and Near West police districts.
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The fruits of d-policing. A rush for the exits is in progress.
Move to Detroit.
Feral descendants of Mrs. O’Leary’s cow again.
ChIraq indeed.
Hey Melvin, maybe consider changing your voting patterns
The unwanted lead is what Chicago gets from voting for Chicago Demonicrats.
You elect DemonRATs, you get what you deserve.
And groot is gonna dismiss some selfish, unpatriotic ones who don’t want the jab. Fidiot.
I prefer “Chicongo”, as it’s closer to demographic reality.
Uh, cops that is.
Yet, they keep voting democrat.
We'll know they are fed up when Lori Lightfoot is voted out.
Go Chicago! ... Keep those numbers Up!
You can stay Number 1!
There were much better choices for mayor last election, but fewer than a third of the voters bothered to vote, so this is what they got.
Fix families and cultures.
Instill more values and the fear of God into men and women.
Society cannot be fixed from the outside in. Laws don’t create or motivate right behavior. A new birth does.
It must begin with fixing the individual. When the individual changes, society will.
I see what you did there, Leroy Brown.
Yes. There were dark secrets hidden in her woodpile.
Here’s the dirty little secret about Chicago and the violence problem.
The gangs are the GOTV arm of the Cook County Democrat Party. In return for all those votes the gangs get free reign in “their” neighborhoods. When the Feds and CPD broke up the large gangs back in the 80s all that happened was smaller gangs were created. Google up Jeff Fort sometime.
The dead and wounded in Chicago are acceptable collateral damage, nothing more.
If they wanted the violence ended they could do it in less than 30 days. Simply refer every single felon who’s found in possession of a weapon over to the Feds for prosecution.
Once word of that got out the blatant violations of existing firearms laws would come to a screeching halt.
But they won’t do that. And they won’t do it because they don’t care.
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The androgynous mayor says that the China Virus is responsible for the soaring crime wave in Chicago.
At least, that’s what she told Banjo Boy and MoUrning Mika.
Clearly more gun control is the answer.
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