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Chicago police considering closing off downtown to prevent repeat of weekend mayhem: report
The Hill ^ | 12/09/2021 | CAROLINE VAKIL

Posted on 12/09/2021 12:27:24 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27

Chicago police are considering closing streets in the city's downtown area, along with other potential strategies, in an effort to avoid a repeat of weekend mayhem that resulted in the arrests of more than 20 people last Saturday, ABC Chicago reported on Tuesday.

Citing an internal police memo that was given to police commanders on Tuesday and obtained by the ABC affiliate's investigative team, the affiliate reported that downtown streets near Michigan Ave. and lakefront parks could be closed. Police sources told the affiliate, however, that no plans had been announced and that such closures were meant to be used in a worst-case scenario.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: beetlejuice; chicago; downtown; groot; maregroot; mayhem; mayorgroot; police; surrendermonkeys
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This city is a hell hole
1 posted on 12/09/2021 12:27:24 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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They must be careful not to offend anyone. It would be totally rude to actually stop someone from looting.


2 posted on 12/09/2021 12:28:50 PM PST by brownsfan (It's going to take real, serious, hard times to wake the American public.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

They’re copying London Breed’s loony stratagem, blame the cars?!


3 posted on 12/09/2021 12:30:24 PM PST by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

you know, if they simply shutdown ALL downtown businesses, removed all merchandise, and completely boarded them up, that would solve the business-invasion robbery problem and at the same time prove to Mayor Beetlejuice that the businesses were doing stuff to prevent themselves from being robbed ... heck, that would even allow Chicago to further defund their police force ... i call that a win-win-win solution!


4 posted on 12/09/2021 12:33:12 PM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

My wife and I used to go to Chicago twice a year, shopping, eating, theater but now there isn’t a chance in hell we’ll step foot there until there is new governance. A sad shame.


5 posted on 12/09/2021 12:33:18 PM PST by The Louiswu (Peace to you and may God Bless you all)
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Set up an impenetrable barrier around the most violent areas - call it ChiCongo


6 posted on 12/09/2021 12:33:41 PM PST by ByteMercenary (Slo-Joe and KamalHo are not my leaders.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

These people keep voting in these socialist politicians is kinda like watching someone punch themselves in the face over and over......it makes absolutely no sense and yet they keep doing it.

Guess it’s true....you can’t fix stupid


7 posted on 12/09/2021 12:35:30 PM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave)
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Fortress Chicago


8 posted on 12/09/2021 12:36:16 PM PST by Skywise
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When will the Smollett jury announce?


9 posted on 12/09/2021 12:36:50 PM PST by TexasGator (UF)
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“Set up an impenetrable barrier around the most violent areas”

They made a movie about that.....two actually....seemed to work pretty well


10 posted on 12/09/2021 12:37:10 PM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave)
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Chicago police are considering closing streets in the city's downtown area, along with other potential strategies, in an effort to avoid a repeat of weekend mayhem that resulted in the arrests of more than 20 people last Saturday, ABC Chicago reported on Tuesday.

Closing off a major cities downtown due to crime. Hmmm, and the media/dems are denying there is a crime problem.

11 posted on 12/09/2021 12:38:12 PM PST by 1Old Pro (Let's make crime illegal again!)
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That will be the final nail in the coffin of those downtown businesses. How dare they try to make a living!


12 posted on 12/09/2021 12:38:48 PM PST by WMarshal ("Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither.")
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Look out, nearby neighborhoods!


13 posted on 12/09/2021 12:40:49 PM PST by SaxxonWoods
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Instead they need to flood crime prone areas with cops, and if not cops then state police filling in for cops on duty elsewhere.


14 posted on 12/09/2021 12:43:58 PM PST by Wuli ( a)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Shitcago is NOT my kind of town.


15 posted on 12/09/2021 12:50:41 PM PST by wetgundog
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Better yet. Build a giant wall around the entire city. Allow no one to leave. Set Snake Plissken on guard.


16 posted on 12/09/2021 12:57:18 PM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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I’m so glad I left. I wish it could have been sooner.


17 posted on 12/09/2021 12:58:04 PM PST by Trillian
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Send all those BLM terrorists to Siberia. They’ll quickly start behaving.


18 posted on 12/09/2021 1:13:29 PM PST by SmokingJoe
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To: ChicagoConservative27

How about Billy clubs and pepper shot?


19 posted on 12/09/2021 1:15:59 PM PST by Joe Boucher (Kimber .45 )
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Only 20 were arrested?

Needed to be hundreds.

We need to have our cities turn into Singapore.


20 posted on 12/09/2021 1:34:28 PM PST by Chickensoup ( Leftists totalitarian fascists are eradicating conservatives)
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