which counts more in chicago, race or class? (Louisville, Humboldt: fit in, sale)

[urza216]

Originally Posted by MannheimMadman

Getting rid of Hispanics and Blacks isn't the way to lower crime. Getting rid of poor people is.

Getting rid of poor people? But who will bag your groceries and keep your stores clean?

[Humboldt1]

Getting rid of certain cultures prevalent among urban poor will also go a long way to reduce crime. It is about race and culture, not just race. Ghetto knows no color.

[urza216]

Legalize the drugs that are currently illegal and you'll see drug gangs disappear overnight. If all drugs were legal and sold in a legal regulated market, the violence in places like Englewood and Harvey might decrease so much so quickly, jaws would drop in amazement. I haven't seen any groups of gangs selling alcohol on the street shooting each other. That hasn't gone on since Prohibition. I haven't even seen people getting shot over a highly addictive drug called nicotine.

And in all honesty, I can't help but find it a little peculiar. With rising cigarette prices, you'd think there would be at least ONE guy who walks into a convenience store with a gun and demands "Give me all your tobacco!"

[Humboldt1]

I blame bad parents and a bad ghetto culture. Drugs are only the latest excuse.

[aragx6]

^ Latest? Did we recently start using drugs as a human race?

[Chicago South Sider]

Originally Posted by aragx6

^ Latest? Did we recently start using drugs as a human race?

Humans have been using drugs for thousands of years. Some of the most famous people in the world use drugs. Even Hitler was a meth-head and sent his troops into battle high on meth to keep them going.

The extremely ignorant amongst us think that drugs are just a problem for poor people.

[Chicago South Sider]

Originally Posted by Humboldt1

I blame bad parents and a bad ghetto culture. Drugs are only the latest excuse.

I wonder how many white people profit tremendously from the sale of illegal drugs? I also find myself wondering how many get paid to turn a blind eye to the massive drug importing business?

[Humboldt1]

I wonder how much of our GNP is generated thru the sale of illegal drugs. This would include bribes and drug sales as well as what the proceeds from illicit activities are plowed into such as investments.

[desperad0stl]

I watched an interesting video in this Comparative Politics class I took...in Switzerland they had a huge problem with heroine addicts...they had their own needle park in Zurich so much money was spent on incarcerating them, keeping them in jail, arresting them, police attention etc...
They opened these Heroine Clinics where junkies can get a monitored dose of heroine up to a certain amount of times a day and the participants are studied and of course its free...their heroine problem disappeared.

[Chicago South Sider]

Originally Posted by Humboldt1

I wonder how much of our GNP is generated thru the sale of illegal drugs. This would include bribes and drug sales as well as what the proceeds from illicit activities are plowed into such as investments.

That figure must be in the hundreds of billions of dollars.