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Community leaders, new coordination center work toward addressing root causes of Chicago violence
Chicago Tribune ^ | 2021-12-30 | STEPHANIE CASANOVA

Posted on 12/30/2021 9:21:03 AM PST by Salman

Avanii Hazzard of Teamwork Englewood stood before dozens of leaders at a meeting in the neighborhood and implored them to dig deeper when they were discussing what the community needs in order to prevent stubborn violence.

“We’re missing a big part of the situation,” Hazzard said. “This is all reactive and none of it is proactive.”

The situation she was referring to was a fictional scenario of a teenaged mom who was angry that her baby’s father, just 17, wouldn’t provide for the child and instead was spending his money throwing himself a birthday party. The tension between the teen parents would lead to a fatal shooting, according to the the imagined setup.

The group of leaders Hazzard spoke to were from community organizations in and around Englewood, including libraries, the Chicago Housing Authority, Chicago police officers and other city and community departments, and were tasked with reading the scenario and discussing what the young people involved might need in terms of support.

There were three parts: “pre-incident” which explained the background of the situation, the “incident” when a shooting occurred, and “post-incident” or “aftermath” where they learned of the fallout and how people might be affected once the shooting happened.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: chicago; crime
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Executive summary with "scare quotes":
The same "root causes" "they" have been "addressing" since the 1960s. Or was it the 1950s?
1 posted on 12/30/2021 9:21:03 AM PST by Salman
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To: Salman

FATHERS!


2 posted on 12/30/2021 9:25:39 AM PST by blam
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To: Salman

He’s an economic lightweight who is trying to endear himself into a gov’t position.


3 posted on 12/30/2021 9:26:06 AM PST by econjack (I'm not bossy. I just know what you should be doing.)
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To: Salman

Here’s a “root cause”: violent thugs are disproportionately passing on their genes to create the next generation of violent, high-testosterone low-IQ thugs.


4 posted on 12/30/2021 9:26:08 AM PST by SauronOfMordor (A Leftist can't enjoy life unless they are controlling, hurting, or destroying others)
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To: blam
FATHERS!

Or lack thereof.

5 posted on 12/30/2021 9:27:49 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Salman

Jesus Christ.

And I’m not swearing.


6 posted on 12/30/2021 9:27:59 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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To: Salman

Feral blacks and their progeny.


7 posted on 12/30/2021 9:30:14 AM PST by SpaceBar
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“...Community leaders, new coordination center ...”

MORE civil service jobs for do-nothing idiots who could care less about ‘root causes’.

They will get dug in there and join the ranks of their brethren in finding some truly efficient ways to embezzle .... no matter WHAT their salaries are! Look for people who score decades of over time pay for work they never did or even clocked-in for, etc. It's an idustry!!

8 posted on 12/30/2021 9:30:23 AM PST by SMARTY (Republics decline into democracies & democracies degenerate into despotisms. Aristotle)
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To: Salman

Vote Republican.


9 posted on 12/30/2021 9:31:42 AM PST by Fido969 (45 is Superman!)
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To: blam

“FATHERS”

Agreed but if you have grown up in a home missing a father, how do you learn to become a father? In the earlier days, perhaps grandparents modeled parental behavior but people are no longer living near grandparents that much, and some families have been missing fathers for generations now. The other resources for learning parenting comes from television. I haven’t watched television for a long time now but I wonder how many shows demonstrate positive fatherhood these days? Schools? Music? These sources no longer consider fatherhood a worthy occupation while they are busy lionizing motherhood. Religion? Too many aren’t attending and those religions that exist too often focus on climate virtues rather than familial virtues. It is a conundrum and I don’t believe it has arisen by accident. The BLM boast of disrupting the nuclear family is nothing new in revolutionary movements.


10 posted on 12/30/2021 9:32:13 AM PST by caseinpoint (Don't get thickly involved in thin things.)
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Jesus Christ. -- And I’m not swearing.

Best answer so far.

11 posted on 12/30/2021 9:35:44 AM PST by Salman (It's not a "slippery slope" if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: blam

FATHERS!.....Or a LACK thereof...


12 posted on 12/30/2021 9:36:41 AM PST by traderrob6
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To: Salman
“We’re missing a big part of the situation,” Hazzard said.

Democrats, and all of their Godless, big government ‘solutions’

13 posted on 12/30/2021 9:43:32 AM PST by FatherofFive (We support Trump. Not the GOP)
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To: Salman

It is all my fault for being white.


14 posted on 12/30/2021 9:46:19 AM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: blam

FATHERS!


There are plenty of sperm donors but virtually no fathers. And perhaps the sperm recipients might think a bit more about who they choose to have sex with.


15 posted on 12/30/2021 9:48:04 AM PST by hanamizu
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After much de.iberwtion, they conc,concluded, that “root cause” is ... waif for it ... “RACISM”


16 posted on 12/30/2021 10:05:45 AM PST by Bob434
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ghetto culture???
17 posted on 12/30/2021 10:07:57 AM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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Savages gotta savage.


18 posted on 12/30/2021 10:12:39 AM PST by vexit
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To: FatherofFive
We’re missing a big part of the situation,” Hazzard said.

And that part will always go "missing" because the truth doesn't fit the narrative. It's black thug culture perpetuated by their own policies. All quite intentional, as the perpetuation of a violent, feral underclass is part of the Cloward-Piven strategy.

19 posted on 12/30/2021 10:15:21 AM PST by Noumenon (Black American flag time. KTF)
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To: Salman

Meaningless. We know what a functioning peaceful community looks like. It’s a place where everyone (or almost everyone) does his job. Parent, policeman, councilman, pastor, teacher. No mystery. But after all the palaver reported here, no one even dared to broach the subject of societal agents enabling and requiring fathers to take responsibility for the home and family. That is the keystone to repairing the neighborhood, and no one apparently will ever talk about it.


20 posted on 12/30/2021 10:16:07 AM PST by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the Narrative.. )
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