What is behind the violent shootings in Chicago?
Fox News,
by
Hollie McKay
Original Article
Posted By: MissMolly,
7/8/2020 2:57:26 AM
Independence Day weekend marked another bloody weekend in Chicago, with at least 67 people shot – 18 fatally, including four children – as high homicide rates continue to blight the Windy City.
The week prior, five children were caught in the crossfire, in which three died. And over Memorial Day weekend, Chicago endured its bloodiest day in over six decades — 18 people were killed and 45 wounded in a 24-hour period.
According to statistics issued by the Chicago Police Department last week, shootings and murders jumped 75 percent in June compared to the same time in 2019, with 425 shootings this year compared to 242 last June.
In addition, homicides rose
Reply 1 - Posted by:
IowaDad 7/8/2020 6:21:05 AM (No. 470841)
Democrats!
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Lazyman 7/8/2020 6:51:40 AM (No. 470853)
Evil over good has prevailed and the one chance to save the community was the cops who have been destroyed there for years. Until the good citizens rise up and risk life to fight evil it is a lost cause like in Mexico.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
ByteGuru 7/8/2020 7:11:03 AM (No. 470866)
Quite frankly many in normal society consider a substantial portion of most big city populations to be simply feral. They have not contributed anything to normal society for generations and are now developing their own sub-culture the basic tenet of which is survival of the fittest.
I consider the movie 'Escape from New York' to have been a warning, a prediction that is coming true before our own eyes.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
TCloud 7/8/2020 7:26:30 AM (No. 470881)
If it would be funny, I'd laugh...but that caricature for a Chicago Mayor...Chiraq War. What can be said. Somehow there must be a winner and loser?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
GO3 7/8/2020 7:34:33 AM (No. 470887)
Is that a serious question?
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
cor-vet 7/8/2020 8:04:34 AM (No. 470922)
And the answer is, more social programs funded by taxpayer dollars. It's always the same, poverty and poor education. None of it is their fault, it's the fault of the government ( read Donald Trump). Somehow, these poor children can afford guns and ammo, smartphones and $200 Nikes. Maybe if we quit paying baby mamas a premium for more than the 1st mistake, we could cut down on the number of poor children running the streets. Maybe if we started holding parents, teachers and politicians accountable, we might see a change.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Philipsonh 7/8/2020 8:23:52 AM (No. 470951)
New York City - a Chicago in the making. Low income individuals, mostly minorities, vote for their own misery, and KEEP doing so. They could change things with a single election. But I doubt they ever will.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Philipsonh 7/8/2020 8:26:47 AM (No. 470956)
To reply #6 - to call having a baby out of wedlock 'a first mistake' is inaccurate. It is purposeful. The females KNOW what can happen.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Paperpuncher 7/8/2020 8:29:06 AM (No. 470965)
Political Corruption? The fact they have some of the most stringent gun laws in the country yet, they do not charge anyone with gun crimes? Gangs, gangs, we don't have no stinking gangs. How about the Ferguson effect. Or, how many of these shooters actually get arrested and prosecuted. This just goes on and on. The city is a basket case beyond repair. Let's just build a fence around it to keep them in.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
FunOne 7/8/2020 8:58:41 AM (No. 470994)
Following decades of violence and carnage, I think that "CULTURE" has become the reason.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
lakerman1 7/8/2020 9:08:08 AM (No. 471003)
I have been lecturing you people about gangs, drug sales, turf wars, youngsters selling drugs.
the one omission in the analysis was the effect of fentanyl on the whole mess. cheap fentanyl has undercut retail drug prices, meaning turf for sales is much more important to defend/expand.
thus the shootings.
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Black-on-black crime, 40 ouncers, drugs, bein DISreespected, feral mentality, no consequences for actions, ever. That’s a start.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
3XALADY 7/8/2020 9:28:24 AM (No. 471029)
Has that dipwad of a mayor one time said something about the killings? No she blames anything and everybody for them. Surely they were scraping the bottom of the barrel when she got elected. I'd like to see Sheriff Clarke or Mayor Giuliani take over as mayor and see what happens. Right now they are still losing. And whose taxpayers are paying to keep the hospitals open to take care of the gunshot victims. It can't be Chicago people. They don't work.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
fayebeck 7/8/2020 9:54:04 AM (No. 471078)
#11 I do apologize for not listening to your warnings.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
PESSIMIST 7/8/2020 10:16:53 AM (No. 471108)
Sorry, but I call BS on this article and the Chief.
It is simply a riff on the old, "People commit horrifying crimes because they're poor. End poverty (or drugs, their supposedly inevitable concomitant] and you'll have no more crime."
(Fact check: West Virginia is the third poorest state in the union. It has the fourth lowest crime rate. My numbers may be slightly off, but that's what they were a few years ago. They too have a fentanyl problem, but no mass killings or disorder.)
So, I repeat, this is poorly-disguised liberal BS from an obedient police chief. The crimes being committed by young people may have some proximate relationship to the issue of "drug turf," but they are rooted in liberal apologies for irresponsibility -- the glib and illiterate contempt for history and shared values seen everywhere as our legacy media congratulate statue breakers. Young men need very little encouragement to act out. If affluent liberal institutions congratulate them for it, the results follow.
In their aphasic, even moronic way, the young gangbangers of Chicago feel their crimes are POLITICAL -- they're showing their contempt for "white" authority, an attitude they correctly perceive their literate mentors on television and in the "civil rights" movement are promoting. The police chief is clueless. His enemy isn't drugs. It's the liberal masters who employ him.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Italiano 7/8/2020 10:24:46 AM (No. 471123)
50+ years of Democrat political pandering, handouts, PC and now, white cowardice.
Too late to fix now. Just stay away from it and shoot back if you have to. Protect our families, property and culture.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Strike3 7/8/2020 10:31:48 AM (No. 471132)
FTA: Police study of the 436 murders a year prior found that most of the victims were young Black males killed in gang-related disturbances, noting that "most victims and their killers had a prior history of an arrest."
Don't even try to blame this slaughter on the virus, Lightfoot. The wide path from Mexico to Chicago has been known as the "Heroin Highway" ever since I spent a year there in the seventies and promptly left that toxic environment. The promise of no work and easy money effectively sucks in the blacks. Yes, poverty is a motivator but with everything necessary to begin a productive life being free to them such as education, food and housing, it can not surpass the glory of the gangsta life, riding around in a big shiny car, carrying a "nine" and adorning oneself in glittery jewelry. Block the incoming drugs and 95% of the problem goes away. Then there is the long term process of changing the culture and without effective education there is no solution to the adoption of victimhood as a way of life.
There are some tough love solutions to avoiding that way of life that would not be acceptable today because honesty is not permitted when dealing with this problem. Remove all fatherless children from single mothers and put them up for adoption in real families or build academy type schools where the students live in under strong supervision. Send anybody caught dealing drugs away for a LONG time. Stop the drug traffic at the Mexican border. Patrol the streets with dogs, which are better at finding contraband than any technology. Above all, put somebody in charge who is serious about fixing it, not some politically correct loser.
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Since the population in question will not voluntarily change their "lifestyle" at the behest of "The Man", I see the only workable solution is to tie welfare benefits to mandatory birth control. If they manage to have a kid while on benefits, these brood mares would get the choice of having their tubes tied to continue benefits, or lose their benefits. The "ferals problem" should disappear in 10-30 years. I'd like to see the libs' head explode if this was a bill working its way through Congress.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
G Mo 7/8/2020 12:40:21 PM (No. 471319)
What kind of opportunity can government offer these gang members that can top the easy money and gangsta prestige that comes with selling drugs? You can't make everybody a mayor or chief of sanitation.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
hurricanegirl 7/8/2020 3:38:50 PM (No. 471506)
None of the replies here are correct, in my humble but accurate opionion. It's not democrats or drugs or destroyed families or lack of education or not enough opportunities; it's people who have rejected God and gone their own way.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
or gate 7/8/2020 3:59:22 PM (No. 471520)
Your standing in my spot.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Italiano 7/8/2020 6:20:38 PM (No. 471614)
Granted #20, but many white liberals and all white leftists are every bit as godless, maybe more so, but they aren't slaughtering each other in the streets.
I wish they were, it would save us the trouble when the time comes.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
jeffkinnh 7/8/2020 8:21:37 PM (No. 471759)
"most of the victims were young Black males killed in gang-related disturbances"
And in a dem controlled city, especially in an election year, Blacks are untouchable. Remember Trump's facetious quip about being about being able to shoot someone and get away with it and the media going nuts about it? Well, right now, Blacks can and are.
The article goes on to spout the usual claptrap about societal problems. Yes, fractured society can lead to unrest. However, the way to stop it is, TO STOP IT! To make it crystal clear it will not be tolerated. Society's problems are not going to get cleaned up overnight. Gangs and drugs are a cheap and easy fix as long as they are tolerated. If they are not, people will need to search for and accept other choices, like education, responsibility, and hard work. You have to stop and remove the degenerative choices to nudge people to the better choices.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
JunkYardDog 7/9/2020 7:03:59 AM (No. 472070)
What's behind the violence? It's simple: black gang-culture combined with failed Democrat social policies. It's that basic.
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