Chicago - An Organized Commmunity?
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Which neighborhoods? Not every area in Chicago is bad.chicago's shootings and murders in the last couple weeks:
I have a colleague who does entrepreneurial training and provides micro loans to those who make it through the program. He does his work on the south side in the Woodlawn neighborhood. It's a pretty tough neighborhood. What they find is that people with no jobs end up being on the street and in harms way. If the kids can get jobs and be inside at night, they can survive.
Lack of money and the promise of quick money in drug sales leads to gang violence. Since Indiana sells guns for cheap, people just drop down to Gary and purchase.
ok doser
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i know this isn't Chicago, but it's so representative of the deliberately ignorant black culture - scroll to 1:35
"and he also cut me on both sides of my arms where my shoulders is..."
https://www.yahoo.com/news/protests-turn-chaotic-outside-nail-213022454.html
"and he also cut me on both sides of my arms where my shoulders is..."
https://www.yahoo.com/news/protests-turn-chaotic-outside-nail-213022454.html
Emanuel is hardly disinterested. He has been working with the aldermen in the areas affected by crime. He has been speaking with pastors, non-profits and businesses in these areas to help stop the violence.
We have people who are in what they feel is hopeless poverty. They live in survival mode where only the strongest make it out. The police force meant to keep the peace ends up unjustly killing people which leads to distrust of the very government force that might help. Kids have no jobs and the schools do not provide the kids with livable skills. The end result is people doing whatever is right in their own eyes in order to keep lliving...even if it means killing others.
Now, Emanuels attempts at solving the problem have failed because his core worldview is incorrect and therefore his solutions are incorrect. But, you cannot say that Emanuel is disinterested. That is not true.
ok doser
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annabenedetti
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That bolded part: exactly. But you'll never catch a fear-and-loathing conservative bringing that up when they talk about Chicago, they panic when the guns they want to be so available aren't in the hands of white people (which is why they start pointing at Chicago...)
annabenedetti
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Why do you spew this racist crap?
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"“One of the ways Chicago is different is that our social conditions are not anything like those now in New York City and Los Angeles,” Jens Ludwig, director of the Crime Lab, told a City Club audience early this year. “We are not just the most segregated city in America, but the level of concentrated poverty we have in our neighborhoods is unlike anything in Los Angeles or New York. You would not find an Englewood or Garfield Park anywhere in Los Angeles and New York.”
The dynamics at play, the ones Chicagoans want to understand to end the bloodshed, are complex. Gang life is a substitute for hope in isolated neighborhoods. Every shooting invites a retaliatory attack. In a city of 2.7 million people, a relatively small number of criminals — perhaps 5,000 to 10,000 thugs and drug dealers — are driving a large share of the violence. “It’s the same individuals that continuously commit these crimes,” Chicago Police Department Superintendent Eddie Johnson said.
One positive development is this year’s 20 percent decline in the number of homicides and shooting incidents. New CPD crime-fighting tactics, based in part on U. of C. Crime Lab data, get some credit. But so much more has to be done to stop the shooting, punish offenders and save neighborhoods."
ok doser
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ok doser
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annabenedetti
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Your post immediately following the above:
There are avowed racists, and then there are racists who pretend they're not, by using euphemisms and weasel words.