Posted on 08/09/2018 2:27:58 AM PDT by reaganaut1
An explosion of drive-by shootings erupted on Chicago’s South and West sides this weekend. At least 74 people were shot, and 12 killed, between 3 p.m. on Friday and 6 a.m. on Monday. In one seven-hour stretch, starting around midnight on Saturday, at least 40 people were shot, four fatally, as gunmen targeted a block party, the aftermath of a funeral, and a front porch, reports the Chicago Tribune. Over two and a half hours that morning, 25 people were shot in five multiple-injury shootings, including a 17-year-old who died after being shot in the face. An 11-year-old boy, a 13-year-old boy, and a 14-year-old girl were also hit over the course of the weekend’s bloodbath. Mt. Sinai’s emergency room shut down for several hours due to the overload of bodies; in May, the entire hospital went into lockdown following a virtual riot in its lobby among gangbangers, reported Tribune columnist John Kass.
Meantime, Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel and Illinois attorney general Lisa Madigan recently celebrated the issuance of a 232-page draft consent decree for the Chicago Police Department, possibly the longest police consent decree ever written. Among numerous other red-tape-generating provisions, it requires the CPD to revise its protocols regarding “transgender, intersex, and gender non-conforming individuals,” to make sure that the CPD policies properly define these terms and that officers address intersex, transgender, and the gender non-conforming with the “names, pronouns and titles of respect appropriate to that individual’s gender.” Last Thursday, a so-called anti-violence march shut down Lake Shore Drive to demand that the CPD hire more black officers and that City Hall spend more on social programs in the black community. Few voices, in other words, are tackling the actual cause of Chicago’s violence: the breakdown of the black family structure and a demoralized police department.
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Why would anyone want to be a cop in Chicago?
Those are “Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel’s” values apparently.
Emanuel told the Tribune in a statement he agreed with Moreno, noting “Chick-fil-A values are not Chicago values.”
“They disrespect our fellow neighbors and residents,” Emanuel said.
So a Christian owned and operated family business that closes on Sunday so their employees can celebrate with their families are not values that Emanuel can get behind, but shooting up neighborhoods are okay...Okay sparky, but the optics to “the rest of the country” look pretty bad.
But yeah, blame the values associated with Chick-fil-A and not the $hitty values you are promoting as the problem...
You are the weakest link!!!!
“It’s a toilet”
It’s a porta potty but yet there are those seemingly intelligent, educated, urbane few who praise and defend it. I guess if you don’t mind living under one of...if not the most corrupt criminal governments then knock yourself out.
Who are these thugs?
“Factor those out and Chicago becomes as safe as Geneva, Switzerland.”
Sure it does. More like Mogadishu. Take a gander at a more tony, upscale, yuppified, “safer Geneva-like” area of the city:
“Imagine how busy the emergency rooms get during a Chicago murder spree. Nurses, doctors, admins must be working 24 hour shifts.”
Not only that, but imagine the resources it would take to properly investigate and prosecute that level of crime. Their clearance rate for homicide is 17.5% which I assume is probably the ones where the cop rolls up to a guy holding a smoking gun.
I remember the commies in the Soviet Union touting their laws about human rights and social justice while disappearing people and forcing others into internal exile while the commissars enjoyed their dachas and western food.
Chicago is doing the same, touting social justice and improved policing while at the same time allowing large sections of the city to fall into third world lawlessness.
Tip jar is on the piano.
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