Trump "tweets" Chicago Mayor should seek Federal help in its 56% rise in gangland murders. (Washington: 2014, low crime)

[iNviNciBL3]

Put street gangs under the same category as terrorism, G.D's and Vice Lords belong on the same category as ISIS.

[nana053]

Originally Posted by NealIRC

No.

Let the criminals kills each other. It's much faster than what the legal system can do.

When all the criminals kill each other, then only the soft ones are left.

Evolution has a plan.

Such compassion for the poor innocent folks who get caught in the crossfire.

More Children Caught In The Crossfire Amid Chicago Street Shootings Spike : NPR

Since the beginning of the year, at least 15 children in the city, age 12 and under, have been wounded unintentionally by bullets, says Andrew Holmes, a community activist in Chicago.

He rattles off the incidents: They started Feb. 11, when a young child was shot at 3700 West Chicago. Two days later, a 2-year-old was shot at West 64th. The list of incidents in which gunfire harmed young children goes on.

[coldwine]

Originally Posted by Campfires

Why will it ever change? You have a professor from a major university in Georgia advocating "voluntary reparations" and Big Al living high on the hog profiteering off of a lie. This is their cultural problem. Let them fix it.

Counterpoint: The National Guard would not have to fear civil liability issues and could restore order through force. This could dramatically reduce the violence in Chicago. Martial law could be ordered.


What happens when they pull out?

You know, in an era of terrifying infringements upon Constitutional rights that would have been unthinkable years before, I guess I never thought I would actually see the nation's military turned on its own citizens.

[FAReastcoast]

Originally Posted by coldwine

You know, in an era of terrifying infringements upon Constitutional rights that would have been unthinkable years before, I guess I never thought I would actually see the nation's military turned on its own citizens.

They SHOULD be turned on it's own citizens. large swaths of this city are war zones, and the CPD is not equipped (or allowed) to handle it properly. I'd love to see the day where certain neighborhoods on the southside are turned into a military state.

[coldwine]

Originally Posted by FAReastcoast

They SHOULD be turned on it's own citizens. large swaths of this city are war zones, and the CPD is not equipped (or allowed) to handle it properly. I'd love to see the day where certain neighborhoods on the southside are turned into a military state.

Sure. What a good idea.

Hey, while we're declaring war on our own citizens, why stop at using the military to kill society's undesirables? We should just imprison them for the crime of being born into a bad neighborhood.

We could really get a lot of free work out of those people if we just put them on trains to a work camp.

[Dport7674]

Trump is ok with spending millions of federal dollars policing Chicago. He's a dirty liberal.

[flamadiddle]

Originally Posted by Dport7674

Trump is ok with spending millions of federal dollars policing Chicago. He's a dirty liberal.

He can use the federal funds that will be withheld from all the "sanctuary" cities.

[BRU67]

Originally Posted by coldwine

You know, in an era of terrifying infringements upon Constitutional rights that would have been unthinkable years before, I guess I never thought I would actually see the nation's military turned on its own citizens.

What would your proposed solution to the gang violence be? Let me guess. More gun control and job training programs (for jobs which don't exist)?

[FAReastcoast]

Originally Posted by coldwine

Sure. What a good idea.

Hey, while we're declaring war on our own citizens, why stop at using the military to kill society's undesirables? We should just imprison them for the crime of being born into a bad neighborhood.

We could really get a lot of free work out of those people if we just put them on trains to a work camp.

There are a handful of neighborhoods in Chicago which have seen, in 2016, more murders than all of NYC, LA, and SF COMBINED. I think we are getting pretty close to military state being the only solution to stopping the killing spree.

[chicagobear]

Originally Posted by Dport7674

Trump is ok with spending millions of federal dollars policing Chicago. He's a dirty liberal.

He clearly is a liberal on a lot of issues. I don't quite understand why the Democrats hate him so much and apparently would prefer to have the far more conservative Pence as president.