While Baltimore may the most lethal city, as far as sheer volume of shootings nobody does it like Chicago. In a city with strict gun control, the Chiraq bangers can really put up the numbers. As of this time the thug rats have recorded 666 recorded "kills" and are fast approaching 4000 shootings. The vast majority of these are committed by and within the African American community. But what do you expect from a city with strict gun control and decades of Democratic Party Rule. Yet hardly a peep from the MSM. Chicago is really a tale of three cities. One is White with virtually no homicide. The second is Hispanic with decreasing numbers. The third is Black with more in common with Mogadishu than a modern city.
The liberals will always, always point fingers and bring up: legacy of slavery and Jim Crow, poverty, lack of absolute gun control in the rest of the country, and other insignificant excuses. The real reasons the murders are so high are: The Black community themselves #1. They tolerate gangs. They tolerate the gang culture. They will not convict their own people there for murders 80% of the time. The #BLM mentality rules. The liberalization of the criminal justice system #2. Blacks are given special protections under the law. The chances of a Black man serving justice by being actually executed in Illinois for capital murders is statistically insignificant. Only 6 men have been executed in the state over the last 40 years. That's only 6 chances in 20,000. With Obama set to pardon 1,000 or more gangstas---why should Blacks worry about murdering their fellow man in Chicago?
Lots of complaining but no solutions. If you have solutions say them.....unless you are afraid they sound too racist
Bingo. The released criminals will seek to take back what they had before they did their stretch. It's always about excuses and keeping the Democratic Party in power.
My solution has always been to make a law that mandates ALL repeat violent felons 16+ to be executed within 6 months of their 3rd+ violent felony conviction. In the mean time, enforce all the current RICO and gun control violations---even if 10 times more Blacks will do time for it than Whites or Asians. Pearl of Wisdom: Punish the Felons.
Just an update on Chicago and what's called the weekend shizer show. The box score for the weekend is already 5 confirmed kills and 22 more wounded. Total body count for the year now sits at 669. If the present pace continues the Chiraq bangers will break 700 homicides sometime about Thanksgiving. If so, the only question will be how close to 800 homicides the final score will be.
Executing felons in a timely manner with 6 months of appeals will save Billions in tax dollars. Please know, there will be no "innocent" felons executed, because all will have had to have at least 2 other prior convictions. There is no statistical way for any "innocent" person to be "wrongly" executed. Even if they happen to be innocent of the current violent felony, it would not matter as they are already hardcore felons that in almost all cases should already have hanged. Thugs seeing their fellow thugs hanged in their thousands will have an immense psychological impact and keep the thugs from being so bold. As in the old days, why didn't a Black thug smart off and attack the cops when they were being arrested?
Well in Baltimore they can report everything. Here in Chicago....its a bit different. Not all gets reported. Not all shootings, not all shot, and not all bodies found. Includes those that just come up missing. Like Arnold....they say, I'll be back.
How much taxpayer funding does it take to provide one repeat offender with a new trial every time they are caught committing a new crime? How many thousands of manpower hours must police officers expend investigating the same criminal every time they are allowed out of prison, only to offend six months later?
Meanwhile, update Chicago. As of this AM, the box score for the weekend is 10 killed and 37 wounded. With plenty of shooting time left, look for a run at 12-15 confirmed and 45-50 wounded by 6AM Monday. Virtually all of them in the South and West which translates into predominately African American neighborhoods.
Well VG, here you go again, not keeping up, or just ignoring reality. The solution has been around for at least sixty years that I know of. You add 25 years to the sentence for any crime committed with a gun. That 25 years is not subject to reduction for any reason. A logical expansion of that law would be to apply it to the use of any weapon and a 5 year non-reducible term for anyone caught carrying a gun they cannot prove ownership of. The reason this simple solution has not been implemented is that Democrats have determined that criminals have rights and the Democrats that have run Chicago for as long as I can remember, depend on the Black community to keep them in office. The solution has been there for a very long time. Democrats just have no desire to deal with reality in a real way.
VG, I'm a bit confused. Are you that slow or doesn't the cost of criminal activity and repeat trials of the same felons rise to the level of your notice? Do you really believe it is better and cheaper for a community to parole a felon that murdered someone in a carjacking after serving four years of a twenty year sentence? Where does your cost effectiveness calculation end? What would be the cost to you to have one of your kids crippled or killed by a repeat felon. Would you be sitting down and adding up the police and trial costs to make sure they did not exceed your hospital or therapy costs or the much lower funeral costs? I, really, don't understand you.
Thank you for your concern but when getting my advanced degree no one seemed you consider me slow. You are free to think differently. I am very open to criminal justice reform. Which candidate is currently pushing for this? When Clinton tried to go after super predators the gop now claims she was racist. How do you win this fight?
If there's a legacy of slavery in Chicago those Indians that lived there before we conquered them have some explaining to do...
Yeah.....I did forget about that. Although, they wont be able to use that Cemetery in Blue Island, anymore.
That depends upon the so called life. BLM seems to get their panties in a was every time a convicted drug dealer gets clipped.