Posted on 07/28/2013 11:53:50 AM PDT by John Semmens
With over 500 murders committed in the City in 2012, Chicago officials are desperate to stem the tide of violence. This week, the City will be mailing letters to persons identified in a “heat list” developed by a Yale professor, who studied murders on Chicago’s West Side between 2005 and 2010.
“The purpose of the letters is two-fold,” said Mayor Rahm Emanuel. “On the one hand, we are letting these criminals know that they are on our radar. Maybe if they know we know who they are they’ll be less eager to risk getting caught committing a crime.”
“On the other hand, recognizing that many of these criminals lacked a good male role model growing up, we thought that maybe a little fatherly advice might be what they need,” Emanuel added. “I mean, if no one has told these young men that murdering someone is wrong, we want to be the first.”
The mayor favorably contrasted the letter writing campaign with New York City’s stop and frisk approach, which he called “unacceptably dangerous. Maybe New York cops can get away with stopping these kind of people on the street, but here it would be an invitation to get shot. It seems less likely that a mailman would get shot delivering one of our letters. Even if we’re wrong about that, replacing a mailman requires less training and is less costly than replacing a cop.”
if you missed any of this week's other semi-news/semi-satire posts you can find them at...
http://azconservative.org/2013/07/27/nsa-demands-passwords-and-security-questionsanswers/
So let me get this straight...
In their “ desperation”. They are wrighting these thugs a Stern Letter!??
You just can’t make this crap up...
Uh..... I think he did just make it up. It's satire.
Don't worry, you aren't the only one who won't catch it the first time.
Actually, it is real. The thread is satire but the only thing satirical is the “ we want to be the first to tell them it’s wrong.” In real life, they are sending out letters to put some on notice.
Hope the letter is not written in cursive.
Wouldn’t you love to see this: Chicago to launch massive efforts to clean up the political and legal corruption because it is proved, in obvious terms, to be at heart of the drug culture that is at the heart of the black on black murders as well as the exponentially increasing poverty in side the city and in it’s suburbs.
Illinois is a basket case about gun control.
Nobody, anywhere, should do what Chicago does.
Ever.
With Chicago trying to emulate Detroit, Rahmbo has to distract the attention.
You have been on fire this weekend! Some of your best work. I have enjoyed them all.
Oops! And I actually read the article.
Pretty sad when satire is so hard to discern from what we see as every day reality.
As Yakov Smirnoff would say “what a culture”
These people are probably city employees and represented by some union. I doubt that the letters will do much good, especially if they have to be read by the addressee.
>>>Hope the letter is not written in cursive.>>>
Well, if it is, the writers won’t be able to read what they wrote, ala the female witness at the George Zimmerman trial.
Behave or you’ll receive a mayoral fish.
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