Posted on 01/07/2016 10:08:01 AM PST by SeekAndFind
In a year when the Chicago Police Department, mayor and the city itself dominated national headlines and received widespread attention over the fatal shooting of teenager Laquan McDonald by a police officer, the city also saw an increase in violence. Four hundred sixty-eight homicides were reported in 2015, making it the most violent year since 2012, when 500 people were killed, the Chicago Tribune reported. The number, however, still was well below the level of homicides in the 1970s.
Chicago's violent streak was much worse than those of other major cities. Los Angeles saw 280 killings through Dec. 26, and New York saw 339. Chicago's homicide rate grew by 13 percent compared with 2014, and the number of shooting victims grew by the same percentage. In 2014, 416 homicides were reported, and 420 were reported the previous year. The 2015 number still stands far from Chicago's 1974 record of 970.
Interim Police Superintendent John Escalante told the Tribune the department will allow a few hundred officers who work in the most dangerous neighborhoods to patrol on their days off, and also will focus on arresting those found with illegal firearms. "We are having an impact with the policing that we're doing," Escalante said.
"I think in terms of our staffing, we're good. We've just got to make sure we're deploying people properly where we need them."
The ideas proposed by Escalante to stem the violence continue the actions implemented by former Superintendent Garry McCarthy, who was fired in the aftermath of the McDonald shooting. The release of the dash cam video showing McDonald, who was black, being shot by white Police Officer Jason Van Dyke led to massive protests across the city and calls for the resignation of Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and State's Attorney Anita Alvarez.
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Chicago - Mogadishu on lake Michigan. Home of a certain _resident.
Coincidence?
There is only one thing that is the major driver of crime stats in a given locale. Without regard to gun control or the lack thereof (see Chicago v Detroit gun laws), the biggest driver is the number of criminals available in a locale.
There are certainly other factors, but you have to have good size flock of criminals or criminally inclined.
So it looks as though South Chicago residents should pack up and move to Kabul. That would be a win-win! Just think, they could continue to shoot and kill each other there and the cops wouldn’t get in the way.
Yeah, but no whitey to blame, so no news coverage.
Why no 0bamatears for Chi-raq?
OK... so what is the chicken and what is the egg?
RE: OK... so what is the chicken and what is the egg?
Can anyone answer the question without having the “R” word thrown at him/her?
Being poor does not make you black.
Being black does seem, from the data, to make you poor.
Being a murderer, does not make you black.
Being black does seem, from the data, to make you prone to murder.
So.....from the data:
Does being being poor make you a murderer?
Does being a murderer make you poor?
Does being black make you poor and/or a murderer?
Can a question be racist?
Can a fact be racist?
violence goes up as the population becomes more "colorful"....
however, we all know that people from India can be very dark, but they are not violent or anti social for the most part...so "colorful" really refers to the dindonuttins...
Facts are not racist, but what we see within a micro-culture is truly tragic. We need to have a national discussion that is honest and frank because we all lose by allowing this to continue.
I have often said that our nation would spare no expense to rescue a small child who fell down a well - it would be covered by the news and millions would pray for the child and rescue workers. Every day in our inner-cities there are children born to mothers who are as statistically doomed as that child would be in a well. Yet, we do nothing to change the circumstances that birthed the child, we continue to subsidize the problem, and we are told we cannot speak about it because of color. Does anyone honestly think color matters?
ditto
I see a pattern...
:)
And some will say, that is the price we pay to have a civil society. Society is well on its way to neither civility nor safety. At some point no price can be paid to make it so.
What neighborhoods are Midway and O’Hare nearby?
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