Chicago, that toddlin' town...

[damngrumpy]

Re: Gun-Outlawed Chicago: 67 People Shot, 11 Killed Over July 4th Long Weekend…

Gives a whole new meaning to the term fireworks don't it?
The problem is not even the guns on the street its the
culture of gun violence. Everything can be solved with a
gun, both law abiding citizen and the criminal.
Sometimes the only solution is there is no solution.

 

[PoliticalNick]

Re: Gun-Outlawed Chicago: 67 People Shot, 11 Killed Over July 4th Long Weekend…

Hmm, another gun debate. This has been covered dozens of times here on various threads. Both sides are very predictable and no one ever really changes their mind one way or another during this sort of debate.

Just like abortion, religion & politics.

 

[Locutus]

Chicago's new war on guns: Letters

via zip:



Can’t see sternly worded letters stopping Chicago’s war zone violence.


Via Politico:

Chicago police are going to hand deliver letters to people suspected of committing or being victims of gun crimes in an effort to stem violence in the city, according to a new report.
Starting Friday, a district commander will be delivering letters warning certain targets in that district not to commit violent crimes, the Chicago Sun-Times reports.

The pilot program is targeting individuals off a “heat list” developed by a Yale professor, who studied murders on Chicago’s West Side between 2005 and 2010 and found a small network of people was responsible for more than 70 percent of the killings, according to the Sun-Times.

The letters warn people who have been put on the list that they will be charged with the most serious crime possible if they are arrested for a violent offense.


Chicago Police To Deliver Letters Warning People Not To Commit Gun Crimes… | Weasel Zippers


Chicago's new war on guns: Letters - Tal Kopan - POLITICO.com

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[Highball]

Re: Chicago's new war on guns: Letters

Chicago, the land of wildly off center politics and the residence of Obama, Rahm, the Daley's and many others who are living in a Penitentiary somewhere in the US. There are probably more guns in this city than the Illinois National Guard has in all of their Armories.

 

[taxslave]

Re: Chicago's new war on guns: Letters

Yep a letter hand delivered by a cop is definitely going to make a career criminal quiver in his boots and hand over part of arsenal of unregistered guns.

 

[Locutus]

Re: Chicago's new war on guns: Letters

Strongly worded letters. Don't you worry.

 

[Locutus]

What's wrong with Chicago?

City of Chicago maps out "Safe Passage" routes to keep kids out of harm's way as they cross gang boundaries on their way to and from school. Fark: 2 people shot; 1 killed along one of those routes Saturday night

CHICAGO (CBS) – One man was killed, and another was wounded, when they were shot in the Bronzeville neighborhood Saturday evening.

Police said the men were shot around 6:15 p.m. in the 2900 block of South State Street.

Ralph McNeal, 54, was pronounced dead less than an hour later, after he was taken to John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner’s office.

A 26-year-old man also was taken to Stroger Hospital, and was in critical condition, according to the Fire Department.

The location where they were shot was along the Safe Passage route for Drake Elementary School, which is being consolidated with Urban Prep Academies’ Bronzeville Campus, at 2710 S. Dearborn St.


more


1 Killed, 1 Wounded In Bronzeville Shooting « CBS Chicago

 

[tay]

Re: What's wrong with Chicago?

Lack of employment opportunities............

 

[Walter]

Re: What's wrong with Chicago?

The Dems have done so much for their peeps.

 

[Sal]

Re: What's wrong with Chicago?

fuking journalists have to sensationalize EVERYthing

so essentially this story is meaningless but yeah let's wring a story out of it somehow:

However, although the Safe Passage routes have been mapped out for parents and students; the police officers, and Safe Passage workers, and volunteers who will man those routes won’t be staffing them until school begins on Aug. 26.

Lack of employment opportunities............

along with a hornet's nest of other social contributors

 

[tay]

Re: What's wrong with Chicago?

There seems to be a lot of stories on this site about Chicago.

Not sure why that is unless there's a lot of Chicagoans here........

 

[Sal]

Re: What's wrong with Chicago?

There seems to be a lot of stories on this site about Chicago.

Not sure why that is unless there's a lot of Chicagoans here........

could be there are just a lot of problems that hit the headlines

 

[tay]

Re: What's wrong with Chicago?

I suppose but like you said this is another nothing story not unlike what happens in Toronto at least weekly if not more often........

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

Re: What's wrong with Chicago?

The Dems have done so much for their peeps.

Must be why there's no crime in Republican-run cities and states.

 

[gopher]

Re: What's wrong with Chicago?

The Dems have done so much for their peeps.

Blame Democrats?

Gee, had I said Blame Obama some forum right wingers would have come up with all kinds of horse shït about it. Let's see them apply the same poison pen to you as they do to me.

 

[Locutus]

Re: What's wrong with Chicago?

Four dead, 33 wounded. It's from a) firefight in Afghanistan b) bombing in Baghdad c) summer weekend in Chicago

 

[gopher]

Re: What's wrong with Chicago?

Four dead, 33 wounded. It's from a) firefight in Afghanistan b) bombing in Baghdad c) summer weekend in Chicago

Iraq?

Northern and Eastern Iraq Attacks: 45 Dead, 127 Wounded -- Antiwar.com

 

[Cliffy]

Re: What's wrong with Chicago?

Iraq?

Northern and Eastern Iraq Attacks: 45 Dead, 127 Wounded -- Antiwar.com

I'm so thankful that Bush and Dr. Strangelove brought democracy and stability to Iraq.

 

[JLM]

Re: What's wrong with Chicago?

City of Chicago maps out "Safe Passage" routes to keep kids out of harm's way as they cross gang boundaries on their way to and from school. Fark: 2 people shot; 1 killed along one of those routes Saturday night

CHICAGO (CBS) – One man was killed, and another was wounded, when they were shot in the Bronzeville neighborhood Saturday evening.

Police said the men were shot around 6:15 p.m. in the 2900 block of South State Street.

Ralph McNeal, 54, was pronounced dead less than an hour later, after he was taken to John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner’s office.

A 26-year-old man also was taken to Stroger Hospital, and was in critical condition, according to the Fire Department.

The location where they were shot was along the Safe Passage route for Drake Elementary School, which is being consolidated with Urban Prep Academies’ Bronzeville Campus, at 2710 S. Dearborn St.


more


1 Killed, 1 Wounded In Bronzeville Shooting « CBS Chicago

I doubt if there is much wrong with Chicago (apart from it being a concrete jungle) but some of the people in it might be problematic!

Must be why there's no crime in Republican-run cities and states.

Oh, you mean like Texas! -

 

[Dixie Cup]

Re: What's wrong with Chicago?

They don't say whether the victums were black. If they were, where are Al Sharpton and Jessie Jackson now? Oh right, unless it was a white person who shot them and the victums were black, you won't hear a "peep" out of them, especially if it was black on black. How sad!

JMO