Chicago on the Brink:A retreat from proactive policing has unleashed mayhem in the city.

City Journal ^ | July 7, 2016 | Heather Mac Donald

[C19fan]

Violence in Chicago is reaching epidemic proportions. In the first five months of 2016, someone was shot every two and a half hours and someone murdered every 14 hours, for a total of nearly 1,400 nonfatal shooting victims and 240 fatalities. Over Memorial Day weekend, 69 people were shot, nearly one per hour, dwarfing the previous year’s tally of 53 shootings over the same period. The violence is spilling over from the city’s gang-infested South and West Sides into the downtown business district; Lake Shore Drive has seen drive-by shootings and robberies.

[rktman]

Uh, no way. They have really, really strict gun laws in chitcago so someone is misinformed. 🙌

[archy]

Remember the movie Escape from New York? While walls are being built, when dome with the “southern wall”, the next big project will the Great Wall of Chicago

The largest city in the world with a Spanissh language-speaking population is Mexico City. Second is Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Third is Chicago [most folks guess Los Angeles; nope.]

It should get real interesting as things heat up there in ChiCONGO.

[SunkenCiv]

Another chapter in the Rahm Emanuel/Demwit Machine/Pay To Play success story. At least when Capone ran the city the booze was cheap.

[GOPJ]

I like your point - it’s subtle, eternal, and speaks of a gentle goodness...

[TexasRepublic]

Nevermind the widespread black-on-black carnage in Chicago, let’s concentrate on a few white rogue cops that murdered a black choirboy in Baton Rouge. Certainly, that’s where the media’s attention is.

[MasterGunner01]

Want peace and quiet in Chicago, Rahm? Then arm anyone who pays taxes in the city (and Cook County). Then put a no limit bounty [dead or alive, preferred dead] on thieves, thugs, dope dealers, and assorted other vermin. Drop ‘em off at the local police station where the cops will give the victorious hunter of these vermin a 100 rounds of free ammunition of their choice. Then dispatch them out to collect more vermin. There is an unlimited bag limit for vermin.

[PhilCollins]

I live in Wheeling, IL. Although Chicago’s elections are nonpartisan, the majority of Chicago voters know the candidates’ parties. The last time Chicago elected a republican mayor was 1927. If they had a conservative and/or republican mayor, the mayor would encourage law-abiding people to own guns and defend themselves from criminals. When the criminals think that their victims might shoot back, the crime will decrease. I hope that, during Chicago’s 2019 elections, the voters will learn from their mistakes and elect more conservatives.

[Jim Noble]

A retreat from proactive policing has unleashed mayhem in the city

Think about what the writer is really saying here.

We don't have much of a police presence in my town. Everybody has guns. Apart from a love triangle murder in 2009, the last murder was 1961.

The absence of proactive policing in my town has not "unleashed mayhem", in fact, life is quite pleasant.

Now, why has a retreat from proactive policing "unleashed mayhem" in Chicago? Are people angry because they don't see police officers? Is the lack of policing making them do things they don't want to do, like shooting each other?

Of course not. The mayhem is latent in the residents of this unhappy city, and in order for it to stop the leading offenders need to be jailed or killed.

[DUMBGRUNT]

Thank you.