Posted on 07/10/2016 12:11:47 PM PDT by Zakeet
Violence in Chicago is reaching epidemic proportions. In the first five months of 2016, someone was shot every 2¹/₂ 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; even Lake Shore Drive has seen drive-by shootings and robberies.
The growing mayhem is the result of Chicago police officers’ withdrawal from proactive enforcement, making the city a dramatic example of what I have called the “Ferguson effect.”
Since the fatal shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., in August 2014, the conceit that American policing is lethally racist has dominated the national airwaves and political discourse, from the White House on down.
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In response to this feeling, cops in minority neighborhoods in Chicago and other cities around the country are backing off pedestrian stops and public-order policing — and criminals are flourishing in the resulting vacuum
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What does the ACLU say about that?
Yeah...I think the name for that is “segregation”...
I heard a black man on the radio suggest the very thing...The host commented about it being segregation...The black guy said, “Uhhhh...No...We don’t want no segregation...We just want whites out of our hood...”
I’ll repeat it again, for you, slowly. Reading news from the internet is no substitute for visiting the city.
Depends on where and when you visit...
They have a job - vote every 2 years. Imagine - that probably works out to 1.5hrs of work per year and they get a paycheck greater than what many fine Americans make working 5 days a week in blue collar jobs.
They have voted for this, but for all who say “let them have what they vote for” you fail to understand. We pay for it. Our children pay for it. Our grandchildren will be paying for it. We share in the tragedy now and into the future as far as the eye can see. There are no winners in the inner city - we all lose. The real tragedy is the unrealized potential of all those children - that is heartbreaking to me. We are condemning them to statistical failure yet we continue to pay for it and “hope for the best.”
It is time for a fundamental change in how we deal with these communities. We can’t afford the current approach and much like education, the politicians only want to throw more money at it and nothing gets better. I am tired of being told that I can’t speak to it because I am not a person of color. That is bullcrap. Those who claim the moral pulpit to talk about it are the ones benefiting from the issue advocacy - the status quo benefits them - not positive changes.
After 20 plus years of observing this firsthand I can tell you that the rest of us will have to force the changes because I have given up on them fixing their own culture. By the way - the same kind of craptastic culture exists in welfare communities regardless of color.
Well, duh.
Enjoy your next trip to the Fox, or Greektown lofl...
That was a very intelligent, well thought out reply if I ever saw one...
Do you have any more words of such wisdom???
Let one side draw the dividing line and let the other side pick which piece of land they want.
Of course “they” care. Just look at their motto-—
“BLACK lives matter—IF the trigger finger was WHITE”
Frankly, the truth of that really breaks my heart.
A slaughter every weekend, and Sharpton remains invisible until, as above, the “trigger finger was WHITE.”
I couldn’t help it. Some Conde Nast travel expert was giving me advice that 95% of people already know.
Unfortunately, my daughter drank the kool-ade on living in cities instead of those "evil" suburbs; and, so, she lives in Chicago. In a few months, hubby and I are going to have to go to Chicago for her wedding. I am looking forward to seeing her marry a wonderful guy; but, I am dreading having to go anywhere near that hell hole.
I hate Detroit’s Greektown. But, to my Chicago friends’ chagrin, I tell them that the Greek food out here is better.
I hope it goes great. I assume the worst ares are in the areas made slums by the people that live there. Good luck.
Especially if you throw in the abortion rates on top of the deaths by black on black crime.
Your daughter chose to have her wedding and reception in a hellhole? That might be a signal of some sort.
Perhaps...but most importantly, are complaints about police brutality down?
Yes, cops off the street will be the outcome.
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