Posted on 08/31/2016 12:37:32 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Chicago is wrapping up its most deadly month on record since the mid-90s, with more than 480 people shot and 78 dead, almost all of them ascribed to gang violence. (Plus any that they manage to sneak in before midnight tonight.) The total number of murders for the year is nearing 500 well on track for a record and theres still a full four months to go. This grim milestone adds up to more murders than New York City and Los Angeles combined.
Weve pretty much run out of awful adjectives to describe whats going on in the Windy City, but there are important lessons to take away. For years now Ive been following the work of Chicagos resident editorial observer John Kass and hes published an explanation for why the bad new days are even worse than the bad old days. Theres always been gang violence in his town, but at least some of it used to be tamped down because the gangs were afraid of the cops. Not so anymore. Today you arent allowed to talk about the gangs because its more politically expedient to talk about gun violence.
Some call it gun violence, a definition greatly appreciated by Democratic politicians like those at City Hall. They can point to guns and take that voter anger over homicide numbers and channel it into a safe space.
But there are plenty of guns in the suburbs, and suburbanites arent slaughtering each other.
Its the gang wars.
Politicians know that the gangs are reason for the deaths. Calling it gun violence is much safer, especially in wards where gangs often provide political muscle.
Have you ever heard a Chicago alderman call out a street gang by name? OConnor asked. No? Me neither.
Kass covers the history of John Daley and his tenure running the city. There were plenty of warts associated with that era, but Daley at least had a grip on what the real problems were. It would be dishonest to claim that Rahm Emanual doesnt have the same information at his disposal, but as Kass points out, nobody talks about it anymore. Its considered impolitic to speak of the gangs and it will quickly result in your being branded a socially insensitive racist.
The decreased influence of the police has not gone unnoticed by the gang members either. Kass recounts the disturbing story of a video which recently surfaced and it tells the whole story. The police were investigating a murder and nearly a dozen gang members showed up and, confronted them, harassed them, mocked them on the street, hurling epithets, angry, defiant.
That wouldnt have happened in the old days, but now the gangs no longer fear the police. They have little reason to most of the time. So what will Chicagos municipal government do about it? Well see calls for another round of gun control laws while politicians remain silent about the real problem. This wont solve anything. The cops know it. The Mayor knows it. The citizens being murdered on a daily basis know it.
And the gangs know it.
Just take a look at some of the Headlines around America today. Americans have become inept.
Kerry: The Media Should Cover Terrorism Less’
Iran Satellite Launch Prompts Fear of Long Range Ballistic Missile Attack.
Test fire one at DC?
KATIE MCGINTY MET WITH POTENTIAL GREEN ENERGY EMPLOYER ON TAXPAYER DIME
AS TOP STATE ENERGY OFFICIAL, MCGINTY MET WITH GREEN FIRM IN HOPES OF LANDING BOARD SEAT
Pentagon Paid Employees Personal Bills
Watchdog faults DoD management for failing to prevent, punish misuse of government charge cards at casinos, strip clubs
Feingold Hits Johnson on College Costs Despite Getting $450K From Universities
Lectures and honoraria add up for Wisconsin Democrat
NY Attorney General Accused of Skirting Public Records Law
Free market think tank sues Dem official who withheld key documents in anti-Exxon campaign
Social Security Paid Dead Government Workers $1.7 Million
Agency says payments are an ‘extremely small number
Report: Clinton Emailed Classified Information After She Left State Dept
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BY: Washington Free Beacon Staff
August 31, 2016 8:11 am
Democratic Florida Rep. and Florida Gators superfan Corrine Brown lost her primary election Tuesday as she faces 24 federal charges.
We've been fundamentally transformed.
Is anyone else beginning to wonder (and I get no pleasure from asking) how many gang members can possibly be left in Chicago??
Sounds like Brazil or Venezuela.
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The welfare queens basically perform the duty of an army depot, continually providing troops for the army known as Sons of Obama.
They keep making more.
I think that Chicago was probably a safer city to live in during the gangster era of the 20s and 30s than it is today.
Son of Obama
Can replace
SOB
It might catch on.
LOL
Kind of like the bugs in Starship Troopers.
According to heyjackass.com it's currently 470 shot, 78 of them killed, and 10 other homicides for a total of 88.
Chicago’s gangs are following the unwritten mob rules that have existed since prohibition. That is, they can hit on each other as much as they want, as long as they limit collateral damage, and never, ever do hits on the police.
Even the Mafia at its peak never dared to take on the police, because they knew exactly what would happen.
that’s because the crooks tried to avoid civilian casualties and only target other crooks.
The bad guys today just don’t give a crap.
who is John Daley ?
That’s what Black Lives Matter when they say community policing - we want to control the streets and collect the graft we think the cops are collecting.
The Obama (in)Justice Department told them they didn’t have to worry about the cops.
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