Hmmm...who “runs” that city??? I guess it is merely part and partial of living in the big city.
This report should have been written 15 or 20 years ago.
Chicago could become the next Detroit - it will just take longer to turn into a giany ghetto because of its size.
Post “Gun Free Zone” signs in the hoods. That’ll take care of it.
If the cops gave out all the confiscated drugs free, would that help stop drug deals? Massive overdoses would go a long way to solving many problems.
Where is Guiliani when you need him?
Used to take AMTRAK (Empire Builder from Seattle) to Chicago to visit relatives. Nice walk to the museums and then there’s that famous cafe where Hwy66 starts. Last time I was at the station the 0bama store was closed; operated a year.
Chicago may be reaching the point that the US military units trained in urban warfare may have to start patrolling the streets.
In Chicago you can throw a newborn baby out the window, to fall eight stories to it’s death, and its no big deal, maybe four years probation, if you get a really strict Judge.
This is the reality of Chicago.
In Chicago you can throw a newborn baby out the window, to fall eight stories to it’s death, and its no big deal, maybe four years probation, if you get a really strict Judge.
This is the reality of Chicago.
When people are taught to feel cheated they feel justified to self correct
slipped away long ago.
It sucks when you run out of other people money and police protection all at the same time.
When the EBT cards go tilt and the Cops get pink slips on the same day its going to make the Watts Riots look like a Sunday BBQ.
The solution is to let Chicago, or possibly Illinois, print their own currency. Either that or just let them have their own French Revolution.
Statement: Civil order isn't "slipping away" in Chicago - it's GONE. I will tell you all that I'm so glad I have my conceal/carry because I use I carry going to work everyday.
I do NOT feel safe going into the city to work daily anymore. I work in the South Loop part of Chicago. I've been accosted more times than I can tell you by panhandlers and was once almost a victim of a mugging outside the building I work in at LaSalle St. and Jackson around 7am on a Friday morning several years ago. Were it not for the fact that I'm a pretty big guy and am very capable of defending myself the thug that tried mugging me would've gotten my wallet and gotten away. He did neither.
It was only a few months ago that five "urban youths" tried some push, bump, steal and run scam on me at State St. and Jackson (again, downtown) and were it not for the fact I had my sidearm on me and my hand on it, I would've likely ended up down on the sidewalk with them kicking the sh*t out of me.
Civil order is NOT slipping away in Chicago - it's GONE.
Paging Elliot Ness.....
There is an invisible line looming ahead, the one where people no longer assume that they can rely on the police and courts to assure them of personal safety in their daily lives, and so must resort to defensive measures, or else suffer as victims.
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Plus they get the benefit of paying higher taxes. Pay more, get less. That’s the way of the Democrats.
It’s a mystery, I tells ya! Can’t think of one possible thing that could be causing this. /s
The inevitable result of government deliberately paying people not to work and to make babies so they would always be miserable and dependent on the government.
While I and FR readers are too busy doing useful and constructive things, and paying taxes through our noses, and not voting democrat, the dems are planning more ways to promise people OUR money in return for votes.
I’m no fan of gay neighborhoods, but they are a canary in the coal mine, as far as the economic health of a city goes.
Gays, as a group, have huge amounts of disposable (since most don’t have or acquire kids, and most of careers which can make them decent money). Drive them out, the city dies - as others have said here, like Detroit.
Detroit had a peak population of 1.8 million in 1950, and its population is now down to 600,000, a 2/3’s reduction...even though the country’s population has about doubled in that time.
Looks as though Chicago wants to be next.