Posted on 05/28/2016 12:27:58 PM PDT by Zakeet
The holiday weekend is often seen here as the start of heightened violence ... That has been particularly worrying this year to community leaders and city officials, as they grapple with a rise in gun violence that has traumatized some neighborhoods and left city officials searching for new ways to subdue street crime.
"If something doesn't change, if we don’t get jobs for these kids, if we don’t change the economic situation, I'm worried that we could be looking at a blood bath," said the Rev. Corey Brooks, a pastor on the city’s South Side, a mostly African-American area where some of the shootings have been concentrated. "If something doesn't happen, I fear that we're potentially looking at one of the worst summers we've ever had."
As of Friday morning, homicides in Chicago were up 52 percent in 2016, compared with the same period a year ago, and shootings had increased by 50 percent, though the pace of violence has slowed in recent weeks, the police said. Only five months into the year, at least 233 people have been killed.
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Chicago's population of 2.7 million is nearly equally split among whites, blacks and Hispanics, but most of the shootings have taken place in black and Hispanic neighborhoods on the city's South and West Sides, and the majority of the victims have been African-American.
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Cultural rot and the loss of a civil society, aided by the destruction of the family unit and government indoctrination in public schools.
Chicagoistan.
Jobs, yeah, right, the reason people kill others is because they don’t have jobs. Sure. Of course.
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Chicago's population of 2.7 million is nearly equally split among whites, blacks and Hispanics, but most of the shootings have taken place in black and Hispanic neighborhoods on the city's South and West Sides, and the majority of the victims have been African-American.
if we don’t get jobs for these kids
Why not send them to Mexico where the Jobs went to??
How do all these poor blacks that dont have id, get guns?!?!
/s
They don’t trust each other, so why should we?
Well preach, arm ALL the black folks. Nothing wrong with a good blood bath, as long as it's all the bad-guys' blood.
While you're at it, arm all the people of Chicago. Just have the cops do traffic accident reports, write tickets.
Just treat them like the terrorists they really are.
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