Posted on 06/17/2022 6:49:48 AM PDT by SJackson
1,120 people have been shot this year in Chicago and 282 people have been murdered. Yesterday, four people were shot and killed in four hours in just another Wednesday.
Good thing the city has “peace circles”.
Police defunders have been tasked with coming up with “restorative justice” alternatives to the three P’s, police, prosecutors, and prisons, that ask criminals to apologize to their victims.
That’s the principle of the “peace circle” in which the thug meets with his victim, says “sorry” and then leaves a free man to shoot, stab, or kill.
Chicago's pro-crime politicians eagerly embraced "peace circles". There are peace circles in schools and a whole lot of "trained facilitators" have hung up their shingles. While pro-crime activists claim that peace circles come from Indian culture, they’re actually one of the stupidly disastrous ideas promoted by Howard Zehr, a white leftist who went to a black college on a minority scholarship, and helped inflict the concept of “restrorative justice” on the country.
The Circuit Court of Cook County has a salaried Restorative Justice Community Court Peace Circle Keeper. And dangerous criminals keep being diverted from prison to peace circles.
That's what happened when cops caught Ojani Cruz with a gun during a traffic stop. Prosecutors wanted him locked up, but one judge let him out on his own recognizance while another sent him to have his arrest record expunged at a peace circle.
"They say, 'Peace, peace', when there is no peace," Jeremiah prophesied.
A month after being enrolled in the peace circle treatment, Cruz opened fire on a couple sitting in a minivan. He "circled the vehicle" and "kept firing until he ran out of bullets". When it was all over, a 20-year-old woman was shot in the back and left paralyzed from the waist down.
Prosecutors have charged Cruz with first degree murder and the judge denied bail, but it's too little too late. Had the justice system been allowed to do its job, Cruz would have been locked up. But instead Chicago’s restorative justice and peace circles claimed another victim.
“We cannot prosecute our way out of the kinds of crimes," Cook County Chief Judge Timothy Evans falsely claimed. “People who hurt people have generally been hurt themselves.”
Evans, a Chicago alderman for nearly two decades, has spent another disastrous three decades on the Cook County bench, and even Democrat officials have had enough.
Mayor Lori Lightfoot blasted Evans for "making Chicago neighborhoods less safe.”
“There is no dispute that people charged with murder and other crimes of violence are out in communities with zero supervision, both adults and juveniles."
Klevontaye White was let loose with nothing more than an ankle monitor after 15 counts of aggravated sex assault with a firearm, he cut off his bracelet and then engaged in a shootout with police. The police didn’t bring their peace pipes. They shot back and won the fight.
And Newsweek put Klevontaye on its list of “black people killed by police”.
7-year-old Jaslyn Adams was shot and killed at a McDonald's by a group of thugs, one of whom had been out with an ankle monitor despite being accused of robbery, manufacturing/delivery of cocaine, and aggravated unlawful use of a weapon. This has become typical of Chicago’s pro-crime policies where even the worst monsters can freely walk the streets.
"I have about 100 people on home monitoring who are charged with murder," Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart said.
"Two brothers who murdered a person 11 bullets into them, in front of witnesses,” Lightfoot argued. “And at least one of them was out on another gun charge, on electronic monitoring. This isn’t working. We need to have trials and we need to put dangerous people behind bars so that the community is actually safe.”
But Judge Evans still loves peace circles and restorative justice for violent thugs. “We thought, if somebody is on drugs or stealing television sets or cell phones or whatever it was, all we had to do was arrest them, prosecute them, convict them and send them to jail," he rambled.
Now Evans preaches the gospel of freeing as many criminals as possible.
In 2021, Cook County had the most murders in almost 30 years. In May 2022 it was reported that downtown shootings were up 64%.
“This is just the start,” Evans announced to cheers, while opening a "restorative justice" court. “Englewood, we are on our way! Roseland, we are on our way!”
It was more of a threat than a promise.
Englewood has racked up 23 murders and 102 wounded this year. Roseland is lagging behind with 6 murders and only 29 wounded.
The peace circles keep growing and people keep dying because the justice system in Chicago, like those in cities where pro-crime policies prevail, stands on the side of the criminals.
Judge Evans claimed that in the new system, “we are focusing on punishment, but on healing”.
But there’s no healing for the family of Jaslyn Adams, for the woman shot and paralyzed for life by a peace circle alum, or any of the other victims being protected by the peace circles.
In Chicago, there’s no peace for the people, only for the politicians and the criminals, who are often one and the same.
Judge Patricia Spratt, who presides over the North Lawndale Restorative Justice Community Court, said that the court is about "repairing harm. Not being retributive and sending you to jail".
How will Chicago’s pro-crime judges repair the harm they have caused to crime victims?
It’ll take a hell of a peace circle to raise the dead.
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So much BS.
Every day I think to myself "Maybe today I've finally heard it all." There's a distinct possibility that today is actually that day.
Chicago needs several Hank Voights.......
Peace Circles - When a group of ‘teens’ encircle and beat the hell out of one individual.
Peace Circle- A place to put the bad guy attached to 440V
As they say, “The proof of the pudding is in the eating.” Chicago’s mayhem under “restorative justice” proves that the whole concept is poison.
The ones pushingmthe peace circles should be charged with crimes agaisnt the nation for further endangering citizens, as should everyone opposing hardening schools
Honi HaMe'agel (חוני המעגל Khoni, Choni, or Honi; lit. Honi the Circle-drawer) was a Jewish scholar of the 1st-century BCE, during the age of the tannaim, the scholars from whose teachings the Mishnah was derived.
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Extended sleep story
Two variations of a story are recorded -- in the Babylonian and Jerusalem Talmuds -- in which Honi fell asleep for decades before awaking. The story provides a Jewish version on the theme of a person or persons (as the Seven Sleepers) sleeping for many decades and waking to find a changed world -- a theme originating in the story of Epimenides -- found in many divergent cultures and traditions, and in modern times associated especially with the Rip Van Winkle story.
In the Babylonian Talmud (Carob tree story)
The Babylonian Talmud tells the following story, in which Honi slept for 70 years, before awaking and then dying...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honi_HaMe%27agel#In_the_Babylonian_Talmud_(Carob_tree_story)
It continues:
Explanation of the word HaMe'agel
"HaMe'agel" in Hebrew means "circle maker". Professor Rabbi Samuel Klein suggested that the term "circle maker" relates to Honi's profession as a roofer (in Hebrew Me'agel). It was customary for sages in the Talmud to be called by their profession.[9] Rollers for compressing plaster and mud on roofs during the Hellenistic period were found at Mount Gerizim.[10] In the time of Honi, these rollers are the tools of the trade for a me'agel/circle maker/roofer. The Mishna in Maakot 2:1 calls this roofer a "circle maker" ("me'agel"). The term circle maker has a double meaning - profession and a label to describe Honi's drawing circles to interact with God. <<<
The question then, is, "What's the 'gag'?"
It was customary for sages in the Talmud to be called by their profession.
That would explain the surname of the Messiah then. It's not like Jesus didn't put it out there for such a time as this:
Matthew 24:35 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
Full circle. Mark my words.
It'll take a hell of a peace circle to raise the dead.
You can take a man out of bondage but you can't take the bondage out of a man.
They need a zookeeper.
The slave does not dream of being free.
The slave dreams of being MASTER.
Isn’t that the truth!?
Thanks for adding that. I had said very this same thing just a few hours ago. The slave mindset must enslave because by nature its not the way of free will.
It goes a long way in explaining why Can-DO America is always under attack by enemies foreign and domestic, the Can't-DO people.
What the DA thinks: "More blacks killing blacks. Eh! Their lives don't matter."
“1,120 people have been shot this year in Chicago and 282 people have been murdered.”
Shooting lessons would do a lot more good than peace circles. The thugs are shooting each other, so if they could shoot better, they would kill each other off faster.
This failed because it made the same assumption as “Arab Spring.” That savages could be turned into civilized beings by exposing them to humanity.
If a sitting judge is not retained (which is exceedingly rare), or retires, resigns, or dies, their seat is filled by the Illinois Supreme Court until the next election. Though multiple candidates often run for the vacant seat, those appointed to fill vacancies often have a leg up when the election comes around because they can say they’re already doing the job."
Utterly corrupt and hopeless...but the people vote for it. F' em.
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