‘This is Out of Control': Downtown
Residents Worry As Crime Soars
WMAQ-TV [Chicago IL],
by
Phil Rogers
,
Lisa Capitanini
&
Katy Smyser
Original Article
Posted By: NorthernDog,
8/14/2020 9:24:15 AM
On Monday, all of America reeled at the sight of Chicago's Magnificent Mile being pillaged by roaming bands of thieves, who seemed to move with abandon through the city's downtown. Just one week prior, news networks spread similar images of a shootout in front of high-end boutiques on Oak Street. To downtown residents like Gary Hebding, it was no surprise. Hebding said he has seen continued crime downtown in recent months. "This is never something I've seen before in the four years that I've lived here," he said. "Those incidents are coming here downtown, and they are happening right here
Reply 1 - Posted by:
valinva 8/14/2020 9:32:18 AM (No. 509621)
Didn't the get the memo? It's not crime. It's reparations.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Highlander 8/14/2020 9:39:51 AM (No. 509628)
Why don’t they address this problem to Raccoon Lady? Isn’t that’s why they voted for her? Have her fix it!
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Ledwith 8/14/2020 9:45:00 AM (No. 509638)
Yet, somehow, Biden/Harris lead in the national polls.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
MMC 8/14/2020 9:45:11 AM (No. 509639)
It is BLM fighting gentrification... what is yours is mine..
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 8/14/2020 9:50:35 AM (No. 509652)
Just a bunch of "teens" and "youths" acting rambunctious - - working off their excess energy.
Kids will be kids.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
fhancock 8/14/2020 10:06:39 AM (No. 509670)
If the police will not protect your property then YOU must protect your property...think of this as the French and Indian War in 1756...you are the settlers on the frontier and the British have not nor will not send troops to help you...YOU ARE ON YOUR OWN...with your fellow settlers figure it out
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
oldmagnolia 8/14/2020 10:17:38 AM (No. 509681)
Chicongo is getting what it deserves from years voting the same crooks over and over. I always said that they will do something about it the day the area where the rich live get trashed. Well, they are almost there.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Clinger 8/14/2020 10:17:58 AM (No. 509683)
Do you mean to suggest that when the gangs were doing their killing confined to their own neighborhood things were in control? You already committed to an unsustainable tax burden which was causing flight, now you failed to protect those who were left from roving bands of barbarians and I suppose you still call it "progress."
Oh and as as suburban conservative it is all my fault.
This is all on the leftist progressive democrats who believe themselves to be morally superior. Oh but there are too many black men in prison so stop putting them in prison instead of figuring our what got them there to begin with. That is because the policies that have rotted out urban civilization win elections.
Now the rest of the state will be asked to take on an even greater share of the cost of your disastrous policies while you hold your hand out to other states who you criticize for less enlightened than you.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 8/14/2020 10:30:27 AM (No. 509700)
Chicago voters, have you considered voting R for everything in November?
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Heil Liberals 8/14/2020 10:35:30 AM (No. 509709)
They created the blister by continuing to vote for the mobsters that populate Chicago politics. Let them set on it until they feel the pain long enough to make the changes themselves. A simple vote can change their predicament.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
zephyrgirl 8/14/2020 10:35:46 AM (No. 509710)
Try as I might, I can't work up much sympathy for people who voted for a leftist government and are getting it good and hard. I'm frankly glad the urban thugs are targeting wealthy liberal enclaves like the Magnificent Mile, Upper East Side and Beverly Hills. These leftist fools have voted "progressive" to feel good about themselves while at the same time being confident that their money will insulate them from the ugly consequences.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
bpl40 8/14/2020 10:40:17 AM (No. 509717)
When was the last time Chicago had a Republican mayor? That should answer the question.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Michaelus 8/14/2020 10:44:44 AM (No. 509725)
All this "worry" and nobody does anything. Reminds me of the ancient Britons, beset by invaders, worrying about when the Roman legions would come back to protect them.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
JunkYardDog 8/14/2020 10:45:43 AM (No. 509726)
Lori Lightfoot has all the cops guarding her house-the rest of you are on your own.
13 people like this.
Reply 15 - Posted by:
skacmar 8/14/2020 10:51:02 AM (No. 509733)
Democrats planted the seed of dissent as soon as Donald Trump was elected President. After 3 1/2 years of doing all they could to "resist", Covid and George Floyd unrest proved the perfect time to unleash the civil unrest needed to help continue their silent coup of the Trump Presidency. Portlan, Seattle, and Minneapolis were dry runs for larger cities like New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago. Now that the Democrat best laid plans are actually affecting some upper crust Democrat residential and commercial areas, it sounds like some people are having second thoughts. You reap what you sow. Liberal Democrats created the current atmosphere of dissent and fear over the past 3 1/2 years. They are now getting what they wanted but not what they expected to happen to THEM.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Starboard_side 8/14/2020 10:51:48 AM (No. 509735)
The idea that as long as it was all contained in certain geographic sections of the City, not near them, it was okay, and likely "their" problem.
Look around every major Democrat-led city across the country, and you'll find this "containment" strategy.
You'll notice many of those upper-income, white progressives have also used conservation as a means of removing land from development, but usually it helps isolate them away from "them".
And, if you're particular area has "good schools", and nice homes, you generally pay high taxes, which again is another barrier for many who can't afford to have those good schools.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
columba 8/14/2020 10:53:35 AM (No. 509737)
You expunged God, and you live with the decisions you make.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
planetgeo 8/14/2020 11:06:17 AM (No. 509757)
Moral of the story: don't vote for "ladies with bad haircuts" if you want your local government to protect normal, law-abiding people. Reason: ladies with bad haircuts have a deep-seated animus for normal people and actually want to give other non-normal people "space to destroy" in order to give them/her cathartic pleasure at the pain they are causing normals.
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This is the consequence of voting stupidly. When you put a low grade ass in charge of your city, do not expect civilized behavior from her...or her savage bands of minions.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
DVC 8/14/2020 11:23:46 AM (No. 509783)
The big cities are dying, strangled by the Demonrats and their evil communist methods.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
jacksin5 8/14/2020 12:03:26 PM (No. 509850)
First, the Dems brought us the Rust Belt. Now it appears we need to suffer through the Black Belt. As an aside, in 1968, Mayor Richard Daley issued a "Shoot to Kill" order to stop rioting and looting in Chicago.
So Lori, the ball is in your court. Rule over rubble and rabble, or do your appointed duty to "Protect and Serve".
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what is government? per max weber: "government is that entity which monopolizes the the legitimate use of force" - this is not the case in chicago, portland, etc
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Tough sh*t! You voted for it now live with it. I feel ZERO sympathy for the idiots that keep voting in these democrat communists.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
MickTurn 8/14/2020 12:24:48 PM (No. 509881)
Where are all the good SNIPERS when you need them?
3 people like this.
Reply 25 - Posted by:
DVC 8/14/2020 12:35:58 PM (No. 509906)
We have ethics, #24, and so far, the ROEs don't permit that. The ROEs may be revised, though, depending on the outcome in November and how the antifa thugs and BLM arsonists react.
They better hope Trump wins.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
MainelySane 8/14/2020 12:46:21 PM (No. 509917)
"... we have all this criminal activity, Chicago becomes like Detroit." Democrats
2 people like this.
Reply 27 - Posted by:
RedWhite&Blue2 8/14/2020 1:02:06 PM (No. 509942)
wmaq tv is the nbc affiliate in chi-raq
Nbc is a far left radical-loving outlet
Full of lies and dnc narrative
You reap what you sow, dumbasses!
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
DVC 8/14/2020 3:31:17 PM (No. 510094)
Hmm.
The process of taking urban slums and making them nice, and liveable was called 'gentrification' from the root word - gentry, which means "people of good social position, specifically (in the UK) the class of people next below the nobility in position and birth.".
I would like to suggest "hooliganization" for what will be happening next? But perhaps the simpler "return to slums" is just as accurate.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
bighambone 8/14/2020 3:47:25 PM (No. 510104)
BLM calls what they are doing to downtown Chicago as “Good Trouble” especially damaging business properties and looting and stealing retail merchandise, crimes that they are trying to conflate into being a sort of reparations for the slavery to took place in the South before the Civil War that ended about 1865. Now in the last couple of nights BLM supporters have been going through urban residential areas telling people that they must abandon their homes to Black people. The situation is so out of control it would be complete “fool’s gold” to believe that any Biden led Administration could get that crime situation under control, or even try, as Biden-Harris support BLM and their political aims.
The far left Mayor of Chicago is falsely blaming President Trump for all the rioting and looting that has been going on in Chicago, claiming that a lack of much more stringent gun control measures are the cause of all the shootings in Chicago, as if the Black Chicago criminal and violent gangbangers who perpetrate the vast majority of the murders and shootings are suddenly going to abide by and obey any new gun control laws!
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
udanja99 8/14/2020 4:50:57 PM (No. 510141)
Things will change once the rioters and looters reach the North Shore. All those super wealthy leftist have BLM signs in their front yards in hopes that the alligator won’t eat them. Fat chance.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
watashiyo 8/14/2020 5:48:29 PM (No. 510195)
And they still have a Mayor?
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
mifla 8/15/2020 3:07:31 AM (No. 510455)
Frankenstein's monster. You created it, you own it.
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