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Vice had an interview with a crip leader in Memphis and he said poverty or guns didn't matter....said some people are hood people and even if they had money would still be hood. Kind of just a different culture.
Goes the same with those in the Middle East.....we are fighting against culture and some find that more important than having morals. Amazing how some cultures choose to kill others
There is a similar neighborhood in Baltimore... The police only go in during the day and collect the bodies.... They avoid it like the plague at night...
Was he from there and a community organizer? This President has all the desires to fix things yet he can't start with one place here in the United States. With all of President Obama's talk about helping the poor he'd make an example somewhere......anywhere!
Good to see you are willing to admit that it is only because Obama is from Chicago that you would pretend to care of the homicides that happen there.
Murder rate in Chicago during the Reagan years was 3 times of 2013, I don't remember anyone linking Reagan to the rate back in the 80's
Obama's former press secretary traded his job to Bill Daley for the mayorship.
In addition to other factors, Obama has major ties to Chicago.
The real bottom line is that the city doesn't give a crap and never has....unless the shootings are happening in nice areas etc. Gangbangers and poor blacks in bad neighborhoods.....the city doesn't care and gets a pass.
The real bottom line is that the city doesn't give a crap and never has....unless the shootings are happening in nice areas etc. Gangbangers and poor blacks in bad neighborhoods.....the city doesn't care and gets a pass.
Sounds like the Lower East side of Manhatten in the 1890's. Ruled by criminal gangs and ignored by police. Without law or access to courts business disputes are adjucated with guns.
Yep. And Chicago doesn't want to spend money on poor areas with after school and various diversion programs, it's really just cheaper to let them kill each other off and the innocents just have to try to keep their heads down.
.....and the only reason this gets posted here is because of politics.
One side just gives the cities policies a pass and the other side just points to it out of partisan sniping.
Just like if Chicago were a republican dominated city where Bush grew up, we'd have had march after march decrying the cities racist policies and disparate impact of deaths. Instead, they just blame guns.
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