Posted on 03/10/2009 10:49:58 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
508 Chicago School Students Shot In 16 Months CBS News Interactive: Guns In America CHICAGO (CBS) ―
Twenty-five Chicago Public School students have been murdered this year. As shocking as that number is, there is another figure that's very disturbing as well: the number of students who have been shot in a 16-month period is enough to fill an elementary school - 508 students, according to school officials. CBS station WBBM-TV in Chicago's Chief Correspondent Jay Levine asks why, and what is being done to stop it.
Think about it. By this time tomorrow, odds are at least one Chicago Public School student will have been shot. By this time next week, there'll be seven. It's a staggering, frightening, shameful statistic that judging from the reaction we got, those who could do something aren't anxious to talk about.
"No one really wants to address this but we need to call for a state of emergency," said Pastor Roosevelt Watkins.
Chicago Public School students are relatively safe until they leave school, but after that, the closer to home, stats show, the more dangerous it is.
(Excerpt) Read more at wcbstv.com ...
Because... er.. ah.. um... You got me there.
Wait I got it. You should fight to keep liberalism from spreading into your community. This is a good example of what liberal policies result in.
Quagmire. Time to redeploy.
How many of them were shot IN SCHOOL, and how many were shot while gangbangin’ after school or while truant FROM SCHOOL? How many of them were registered as students but never showed up?
Typical lib drivel, trying to make it sound like the school halls are running with blood, so they can demand more MONEY!
508-25=483. 483/16=30... That's one nonlethal shooting of a child/day. That's pure BS. Notice the person that made this statistic up wasn't available for interview. Also notice there's no explicit source of the data given. The only "source" mentioned are the anecdotal hand counts of a class of school children.
I don't believe Daley's libtard propaganda machine.
No, they should just make Chicago illegal. Quagmire - pull out now.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. - Albert Einstein,
Are Leftist's Stupid, Insane or just plain Evil?
Stupid and insane [or Insanely Stupid] since they keep on doing the same thing over and over again and expect a different result?
Or are they Evil since they KNOW taking away the Constitutional rights of the Law-abiding, won't make anyone safer – including “The Children”, but just Don't care
Paul Vallas for Cook County Board Chairman! Yay! Barf!
Not to entirely blame him though no one could successfully captain the Titanic after the iceberg hit.
Obama’s City is Jakarta!
Haha. This article doesn’t really have anything to do with the schools, rather the bad hoods they are in.
“schools without truant officers”
Yes let’s force JR. Gangbangers who don’t want to be there to go to school so they can harass and sell drugs to the other kids, great idea!
Welcome to the Twilight Zone. After 95% of Whites have fled Chicago and its Public schools - 'BUSING to achieve racial balance' is still the mandate (law).
A couple/few years ago, even a Federal Judge said the Busing Mandate from the 70's is now utter nonsense and accomplishes nothing as there are no 'segregated' white schools left to integrate and he wanted to end busing. But ... (cue Twilight Zone music) ... The Chicago Public School System FOUGHT TO KEEP BUSING IN PLACE. And it is!
So now black students are bused from their own black neighborhood, and black school, to a black neighborhood & black school across town. The same for hispanic kids in hispanic neighborhoods. They get on the bus to go to another hispanic school. Now someone with anything more than pea brain would surmise that the way the School system fought to keep this, someone is making some money off this scam.
There are barely any whites left in Chicago, especially school age. Hispanics are the Majority Minority #1, then Blacks and then the White folks -- about 20,000 yuppie Cubs fans and my Mother-In-Law (she just won't move).
These aren't "students", they're gang banging criminals of protected minority persuasions. And they're only purpose of being in a 'school' is to recruit new gang members.
And as long as the race hustlers like Jesse Jackass are around the real problem - and it ain't guns -- will NOT be addressed, ever. Hell it won't even be whispered. As this human scum have relatives who vote. Illegal alien or not. Felon or not. And Daley and the RATS want those votes.
“Students” like “motroist Rodney King”
And the average age of these “students” is what?
Is it less than 20 years?
Homeschooling only works where:
(a) there are homes; and
(b) the parents know how to read, write, and (this one is key) Speak English - "Ebonics" doesn't count.
And 0 promoted the former CEO of the Chicago Public Schools, Arne Duncan, to education secretary.
The baddest part of town.
If you go down there, you better just beware of a man named Leroy Brown.
Sorry.
Wait until they start stories about Russian-made ammo being "cheap and too easy to get" in the ghetto.
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