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No, not really. I've been around people with guns and I've been around people who embody ghetto culture. The two are not the same. My father has alot of guns. I've shot a gun (my friend took me to the gun range and we had a blast, no pun intended). I've never gone out and killed people. My father hardly shoots any of this guns. If guns are a problem, explain the stabbings and people fighting in the streets.
They haven't just grown up with guns, they have grown up thinking it is ok to kill people to get what you want.
Most of the shooting is spontaneous and unpredictable, often prompted by posts on social media. A gang member disrespects a rival gang member on social media. The online dispute escalates. The elapsed time between the online dispute and shots being fired is very short.
They shoot people for wearing the wrong color clothes and walking down the wrong street. Even for just looking at someone "wrong".
Chicago is a major hub for distribution throughout the Midwest. Black gangs own the distribution end of the operation. The distributors are not necessarily the consumers.
Used to be that gangs fought over turf. Used to be a gangs leadership had to approve a kill.
Today, it's " poking the bear" inter- personal posts on social media that quickly escalates and results in shooting. It's the equivelent of a preschooler calleing another a poo- poo head in a sandbox. It's spontaneous and unpredictable and being disrespected results in murder. Then the retaliation follows.
CPD and the Chicago- based FBI work together to solve. This depends on the willingness of people to talk.
I-44 is the main drug pipeline. Missouri HP busts big loads of drugs all the time that are headed to Chicago.
So how much time did you hang out in the East and West Garfield Park neighborhoods, or Fuller Park, Englewood, North Lawndale neighborhoods??? Or was it the affluent upscale tourist areas?
That's like going to a closed off, all inclusive, heavily guarded resort in the Bahamas or Jamaica, then claiming all the stories of high crime there is overblown racism. Those grieving families of all those crime victims in Chicago are actors spreading fake news about high violent crime rates in Chicago; it's all fake news because YOU spent 3 days in upscale tourist areas. Those mean streets of the Gold Coast, Water tower Place" and Viagra triangle must be" kill or be killed" war zones, where only the strong survive! Those Wrigley Field bleacher bums death squads are merciless, plus only the bravest of souls can handle the Waveland Avenue warlords, or the death camps on Rush Street!
So your nephew lived in the crime ridden area, south side? Because that’s where most of the crime is. You’re going to try to deny that major cities DON’T have crime problems in certain areas? That it’s ONLY Chicago? Lol, yeah, ok.
You nailed it, albeit it pockets within the Southside, not the entirety.
No fixing hood rat.
So I guess the retired Chiraq cop I spoke with the other day was mistaken when he said "it used to be mostly contained in South Chiraq but now has filtered to many other parts of the city."
Chicago is a major hub for distribution throughout the Midwest. Black gangs own the distribution end of the operation. The distributors are not necessarily the consumers.
Used to be that gangs fought over turf. Used to be a gangs leadership had to approve a kill.
Today, it's " poking the bear" inter- personal posts on social media that quickly escalates and results in shooting. It's the equivelent of a preschooler calleing another a poo- poo head in a sandbox. It's spontaneous and unpredictable and being disrespected results in murder. Then the retaliation follows.
CPD and the Chicago- based FBI work together to solve. This depends on the willingness of people to talk.
Absolutely! <bold> It will also require the residents to get angry enough to stand up WITH LEO's to say "ENOUGH IS ENOUGH". This has happened in other places, places like East Oakland CA, East Palo Alto CA etc. When that happened things changed and gangs left.
Apparently not, the MAJORITY of his posts are complaining about black people. Someone did him dirty and he needs to dog whistle to make himself feel better.
Don't mind me bro - I'm just pointing out that the rest of the country sits back and watches blacks killing blacks with detachment because it doesn't affect them.
It's only when black people in Chicago decide they've had enough of blaming the cops and realise that blacks killing blacks is a lot more serious problem than cops killing the occasional black person.
In the meantime you carry on with your head in the sand.
So how much time did you hang out in the East and West Garfield Park neighborhoods, or Fuller Park, Englewood, North Lawndale neighborhoods??? Or was it the affluent upscale tourist areas?
That's like going to a closed off, all inclusive, heavily guarded resort in the Bahamas or Jamaica, then claiming all the stories of high crime there is overblown racism. Those grieving families of all those crime victims in Chicago are actors spreading fake news about high violent crime rates in Chicago; it's all fake news because YOU spent 3 days in upscale tourist areas. Those mean streets of the Gold Coast, Water tower Place" and Viagra triangle must be" kill or be killed" war zones, where only the strong survive! Those Wrigley Field bleacher bums death squads are merciless, plus only the bravest of souls can handle the Waveland Avenue warlords, or the death camps on Rush Street!
Put a cork in it. Direct your outrage to the scare mongers trying to claim all of Chicago is a crime ridden wasteland. Save the agenda for some other weak minded individual.
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