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Chicago’s gangs “no longer know or fear the police”
Hot Air ^ | August 31, 2016 | Jazz Shaw

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 there’s still a full four months to go. This grim milestone adds up to more murders than New York City and Los Angeles combined.

We’ve pretty much run out of awful adjectives to describe what’s going on in the Windy City, but there are important lessons to take away. For years now I’ve been following the work of Chicago’s resident editorial observer John Kass and he’s published an explanation for why the bad new days are even worse than the bad old days. There’s 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 aren’t allowed to talk about the gangs because it’s 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 aren’t slaughtering each other.

It’s 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?” O’Connor 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 doesn’t have the same information at his disposal, but as Kass points out, nobody talks about it anymore. It’s 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 wouldn’t 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 Chicago’s municipal government do about it? We’ll see calls for another round of gun control laws while politicians remain silent about the real problem. This won’t 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.


TOPICS: Conspiracy; Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: banglist; chicago; democrats; illinois
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1 posted on 08/31/2016 12:37:32 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Just take a look at some of the Headlines around America today. Americans have become inept.
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Test fire one at DC?

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2 posted on 08/31/2016 12:38:59 PM PDT by Herman Ball
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To: Herman Ball
Just take a look at some of the Headlines around America today. Americans have become inept.

We've been fundamentally transformed.

3 posted on 08/31/2016 12:42:25 PM PDT by Steely Tom (Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
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To: Herman Ball

Is anyone else beginning to wonder (and I get no pleasure from asking) how many gang members can possibly be left in Chicago??


4 posted on 08/31/2016 12:43:15 PM PDT by getitright (If you call this HOPE, can we give despair a shot?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Sounds like Brazil or Venezuela.


5 posted on 08/31/2016 12:44:26 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
You would think that they would eventually run out of gang members...
seems like they spend all their time shooting each other. It's a shame their aim isn't better!
6 posted on 08/31/2016 12:44:39 PM PDT by 45semi (A police state is always preceded by a nanny state...)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

www.mainetv.net/pissing_us_off.jpg


7 posted on 08/31/2016 12:45:03 PM PDT by The_Republic_Of_Maine (politicians beware)
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To: 45semi
You would think that they would eventually run out of gang members... seems like they spend all their time shooting each other. It's a shame their aim isn't better!

The welfare queens basically perform the duty of an army depot, continually providing troops for the army known as Sons of Obama.

8 posted on 08/31/2016 12:51:45 PM PDT by Sans-Culotte ("Political Correctness is communist propaganda writ small" - Theodore Dalrymple)
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To: getitright

They keep making more.


9 posted on 08/31/2016 12:52:03 PM PDT by bigdaddy45
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
If Trump is elected President, we may see a MUCH more aggressive police presence--and maybe even National Guard presence--in South Chicago.
10 posted on 08/31/2016 12:52:11 PM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

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.


11 posted on 08/31/2016 12:53:03 PM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The Night Chicago Died.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtJ27y_9LOg


12 posted on 08/31/2016 12:57:00 PM PDT by rfreedom4u (The root word of vigilante is vigilant!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Son of Obama

Can replace

SOB

It might catch on.

LOL


13 posted on 08/31/2016 12:59:07 PM PDT by Uversabound (Our Military past and present: Our Highest example of Brotherhood of Man & Doing God's Will)
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To: Sans-Culotte

Kind of like the bugs in Starship Troopers.


14 posted on 08/31/2016 1:02:45 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
... 480 people shot and 78 dead...

According to heyjackass.com it's currently 470 shot, 78 of them killed, and 10 other homicides for a total of 88.

15 posted on 08/31/2016 1:06:48 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

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.


16 posted on 08/31/2016 1:10:41 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
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To: GreyFriar

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.


17 posted on 08/31/2016 1:26:58 PM PDT by txnativegop (Tired of liberals, even a few in my own family.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

who is John Daley ?


18 posted on 08/31/2016 2:04:37 PM PDT by stylin19a
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

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.


19 posted on 08/31/2016 2:39:22 PM PDT by tbw2
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The Obama (in)Justice Department told them they didn’t have to worry about the cops.


20 posted on 08/31/2016 2:41:41 PM PDT by ozzymandus
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