Thread: Rahm Emanuel Loses Control of Chicago, Begs Gangsters Not to Kill Kids

Chicago Mayor Appeals to Gangsters' 'Values': 'Get Away From That Kid'


(CNSNews.com) - If Chicago's street thugs are going to attack each other, they should take their fight away from innocent children, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel told the CBS Evening News on Monday.

"We've got two gangbangers, one standing next to a kid. Get away from that kid. Take your stuff away to the alley. Don't touch the children of the city of Chicago. Don't get near them," Emanuel -- President Obama's former chief of staff -- told anchor Scott Pelley.

"And it is about values. As I said then [when a 7-year-old girl was shot and killed last month], who raised you? How were you raised? And I don't buy this case where people say they don't have values. They do have values. They have the wrong values. Don't come near the kids -- don't touch them."

At the time of their interview, Pelley put the number of murders in Chicago at 275 so far this year, up 30 percent from a year ago. On Monday alone, nine young people were shot in suspected gang-related violence, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.

Emanuel on Monday announced a new effort to "identify, secure and in some cases demolish vacant buildings" to stop gangs from using them as gathering places.

The city said it will spend $4 million to demolish as many as 200 vacant and crumbling buildings located in high-crime areas. Structurally sound buildings used as gang hangouts will be boarded up and eventually put to good use, said a news release on the mayor's website.

The city also has created a "watch list" of businesses such as convenience stores and liquor stores that attract gang members and illegal activity.

Of the 37 businesses on the watch list, 18 have been cited for various violations and are now having their licenses reviewed, the mayor's office said. One of the 18 stores, AM Dollar, had its license revoked last week and will be shuttered. Four liquor stores also have been shut down.

"With these actions, we are sending a clear message to gang members: you will find no shelter in the City of Chicago. And whether it is a vacant building or a liquor store, we are committed to closing down cancers on our communities that serve as magnets for crime and gang activity,” Emanuel said.




Asked by CBS's Pelley what promises the mayor can make to Chicagoans who worry about their own safety and that of their children, Emanuel said, basically, leave it to us:

"I will make a pledge, because the most important thing I care about is when you have violence in the city, I want you to think about your safety. Us adults -- your pastor, your parents, your principals -- we'll take care of those problems. That's our problem. You think about your studies."


http://cnsnews.com/news/article/chic...s-get-away-kid


I guess Rahm was at dance class, when "The Untouchables" was on TV. You don't beg gangsters to stop killing people. You crack down on them, and if they resist- you gun them down in the street like the rabid dogs that they are. But, Rahm doesn't have the stones under the tutu to do anything like that.






His chief of police is busy looking for any Pilgrims that might be gunning down black children with their blunderbusses.
The sad reality is that liberals are dreamers and they are ill-equipped for with dealing with real world things like violent criminals and gov't budgets. Let them make movies and fling poo at canvases, but do not let them anywhere near the levers of power. That can only bring disaster.

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As homicides spike, Chicago mayor defends tactics


CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago's mayor and police superintendent publicly defended their new gang-fighting strategy Monday amid growing criticism that the changes are failing and a big reason why the city's homicide rate has soared this year.
After weeks of media reports about Chicago homicides — which so far are up nearly 38 percent from last year — Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy defiantly said during a news conference that the gang strategies in place before McCarthy arrived were the ones that failed, not the new ones.
More beat officers are now on the streets and staying in specific areas, replacing the large, specialized units that would temporarily drop into crime-ridden areas. Emanuel and McCarthy said they have no plans to change that strategy, and the mayor announced Monday that he's devoting another $4 million to tear down vacant buildings where gang members live and store guns and drugs.
The old tactic of flooding high-crime areas with teams of hundreds of officers for a short period of time, then moving the teams to other areas, was "like putting a band-aid on a gunshot wound," McCarthy said. "We're not repairing anything by doing that."
Emanuel, who has made attacking the city's street gangs a cornerstone of his administration, was equally dismissive of the effectiveness of those citywide units.
"I don't think coming in, swatting something down and letting it come back in two weeks is strengthening a community," he said. "What it does is build up cynicism."
However, the mayor and police leader rolled out their new anti-gang strategies at a time when the homicide rate was quickly increasing. Among the more recent high-profile deaths was a 7-year-old girl hit by a stray bullet while selling candy outside her home.
And on Monday, the Chicago Tribune ran a front-page story that included blistering criticism from two aldermen whose wards have been the center of much of the gang violence. One alderman said gang members no longer fear that they'll encounter the so-called strike units, which included dozens or even hundreds of officers who would temporarily saturate violent neighborhoods.
Chicago has averaged about 450 homicides a year since 2005, which is a dramatic drop from the roughly 900 homicides the city was experiencing annually in the early 1990s. Still, McCarthy said the current numbers are unacceptable — and noted that the city recorded about the same number of homicides last year as New York City, which is three times the size of Chicago.
"That's not success and I'm not willing to take it as success," said McCarthy, who spent much of his career as a New York City policeman.
He and Emanuel insisted that their crime-fighting strategies are paying off, noting that the city's overall crime rate has dropped 10 percent compared to the same time last year. McCarthy also said there is evidence that police are on the right track in their fight against street gangs.
"This weekend, there was half the number of shootings, half the number of murders as we had the same time last year," he said. He also noted that the amount of shootings over the weekend marked the fewest since February.
Quietly, though, some police officers have wondered about the wisdom of disbanding the large specialized units that were deployed by McCarthy's two immediate predecessors, Jody Weis and Phil Cline.
Weis said Monday that the units, which were sent to locations where a violent incident had occurred or in anticipation of where one might occur, were a big reason why the number of homicides fell when Cline was superintendent and during his last two years on the job.
"No one is proud of that, 450 homicides. But before these units were formed, there were 600," said Weis, a former FBI agent who was Chicago's police commissioner from 2008 until early 2011.
McCarthy, who replaced Weis when Emanuel became mayor, said that while Chicago's police force no longer has those citywide units, it finally has a citywide gang-fighting strategy that it never had before — one that pays special attention to the fact that much of the violence is tied to gangs retaliating against each other.
And Emanuel said there are other components of that citywide strategy, including targeting liquor stores and other businesses that police and community activists have identified as gang hangouts. Several have been closed.
Police also are doing gang audits, so they can identify where specific gangs operate and their members. And the plan the mayor announced Monday calls for the city to spend $4 million to tear down or board up vacant buildings that have been identified as places where gangs live, deal and store drugs, and hide guns.
Gangs, the mayor said, "will not find shelter in the city of Chicago."


http://news.yahoo.com/homicides-spik...004217621.html



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He's no Rudy Giuliani, that's for sure.

Real men take the streets back from gang thugs. Democrats plead and negotiate with them.

Originally Posted by Piscivorous

He's no Rudy Giuliani, that's for sure.

Real men take the streets back from gang thugs. Democrats plead and negotiate with them.

Well, what could you expect? Street crud, gang thugs, and the welfare hot-houses that spawn them are the core constituencies of Libocrats like Emanuel. What's he supposed to do? Expect his own kind to obey the law, act like civilized human beings, and repress their natural urges?

Ever read the horrifying news that regularly comes out of Africa? THAT is what Chicago is turning into. Why does anyone but Welfare State Libocrats and other types of beasts even live there?

More kids die to shootings in one year than people die in 20 years from black lung disease.

So they shut down businesses because liberals don't like the clientele, but the same liberals would sue the business if they refused said clientele service, yeah, makes so much sense... Even if they take away these buildings these gangbangers still have a right to assemble, so what exactly are they trying to accomplish? Kill small businesses in the worst neighborhoods so it looks like they are doing something? What am I missing here?

Originally Posted by Pollycy

Ever read the horrifying news that regularly comes out of Africa? THAT is what Chicago is turning into. Why does anyone but Welfare State Libocrats and other types of beasts even live there?

You can take the blacks out of Africa, but you can't take Africa out of the blacks.

Not all of them, of course, but too many.

According to Rahm, go ahead gangs and do the crime in the alleys, just not in front of the kids.

Originally Posted by Piscivorous

He's no Rudy Giuliani, that's for sure.

Real men take the streets back from gang thugs. Democrats plead and negotiate with them.

Growing up in NJ, I remember the steady decline of NY while Ed Koch stood helm, only to have that chump Dickins (no typo) make it a total hell hole until Rudy pulled the city back from the brink. Now to be honest, the sanitizing of times Square and 42nd Street was not cool. Gentrification is not necessarily progress. That place was nuts back in the day. Long before the hack Tarrantino made Grindhouse (pos) the real deal was in NY. Still, on balance NY after Rudy was a better place.

Nice try, Rahm. Very effective. You are dealing with sub humans with all the conscience of a wolf pack.
I mean, at least you are doing something (though you have to at this point, I'm sure, when the bodies are piling up in the streets). But a real leader with the slightest regard for human life would take a pro active police approach and go after the gangs.

What do you expect from a former Obama lackey and pal?