Something something “root causes” something something “historic disinvestment”.Only a Democrat Mayor would work that hard to deflect blame away from their own parties failed policies... Who's he gonna blame next? Grover Cleveland?
Chicago mayor blames Richard Nixon as over 100 people shot at weekend
Mayor Brandon Johnson suggested the root causes of Chicago's gun violence crisis date back to Richard Nixon's administration.www.newsweek.com
I’m going to defend him a little here. He’s right about some of these things and we’ve discussed them on this forum before. Black violence today can’t be pinned on a current politician. It runs deeper than that and the causes are older than that. And he’s right about who he claims are the perpetrators of the violence are.
High rise in ghettos was a big mistake. Urban planning for years has called for low slung developments with a path to ownership. Not a panacea but helps
As to your first paragraph, I don’t agree. The formula for lowering violent crime is a simple one.
This is a statewide issue, but this article really shows how broken the Illinois pension and educational system is, w/r/t cost controls:
New Trier School District set to produce next $8 million superintendent pensioner – Wirepoints | Wirepoints
New Trier Township HS District 203’s Superintendent Paul Sally is set to retire next year and he can count on lifetime pension benefits of nearly $8 million. When he does retire, he’ll join the ranks of the Teachers Retirement System’s top pensioners.wirepoints.org
Keep in mind, Illinois has the most or close to the most school districts (and so more district superintendents) per capita than any other state in the U.S.
Illinois school district consolidation provides path to efficiency, lower tax burdens
Nearly 25 percent of Illinois school districts serve just one school, and over one-third of all school districts have fewer than 600 students.www.illinoispolicy.org
19 killed over 4th of July weekend, over 100 shot. Good numbers. Great numbers actually.
But I think the DNC can top it. I have to believe they will.
'Losing a piece of the soul of Chicago': Top cop, mayor offer candid response to Fourth of July weekend violence that left more than 100 shot
After a Fourth of July holiday weekend that saw more than 100 people shot in Chicago, the city's top cop and mayor offered a candid response, sharing new insights into the startling numbers being reported.www.nbcchicago.com
Can’t punish these poor folks for crimes that weren’t their fault, & this mindset has allowed prosecutors to remove accountability from the equation without resistance. They have been conditioned to believe their crime is justified.
Disagree strongly that it is useless to dwell on causes. McMurtry's post is a good example of lessons learned.
Solving homicides isn't the issue. It's preventing them. How many homicide perpetrators have a rap sheet? All of them? Aggressively, going after lower level and other forms of violent crime puts the perpetrators behind bars before they can commit a homicide.Disagree strongly that it is useless to dwell on causes. McMurtry's post is a good example of lessons learned.
Re arrests: most of these homicides are never solved because of the no-snitch code in these communities. I don't see how stronger prosecution changes that.
By the way, the call for the National Guard to step in is an old one:
Homicide rate jumps in Chicago, Daley pushes for more gun control
Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley argues that more gun control will address the city's rising homicide rate. Others have proposed that the National Guard should be called in.www.csmonitor.com
OK, I understand your argument. You have a point. Are you saying you don’t think deterrence plays a role at all?
I’m not averse to the National Guard at all. But this is the same Mayoral administration that thought/ thinks Shotspotter technology is “racist”. The idea that they would send guardsmen into the most dangerous neighborhoods is far fetched imo. It would be called discriminatory.Lots of good information in here:
Crime in Chicago - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
By 2016, Chicago's murder clearance rate had dropped to only 21%, and its detective force had dwindled from 1,151 in 2009 to 863 as of July 2016.[43][44] Warmer months have significantly higher murder rates, and over 70% of murders take place between 7 pm and 5 am.[45][46]
In 2011, 83% of murders involved a firearm, and 6.4% were the result of a stabbing. 10% of murders in 2011 were the result of an armed robbery and at least 60% were gang or gang narcotics altercations. Over 40% of victims and 60% of offenders were between the ages of 17 and 25. 90.1% of victims were male. 75.3% of victims and 70.5% of offenders were African American, 18.9% were Hispanic (20.3% of offenders), and whites were 5.6% of victims (3.5% of offenders).[45]
Murder rates in Chicago vary greatly depending on the neighborhood in question. Many of the predominantly African American neighborhoods on the South Side are impoverished, lack educational resources and noted for high levels of street gang activity.[47] The neighborhoods of Englewood on the South Side, and Austin on the West side, for example, have homicide rates that are ten times higher than other parts of the city.[48]
OK, I understand your argument. You have a point. Are you saying you don’t think deterrence plays a role at all?
Re the National Guard, I don’t know for how long. Years. Until the cycle is broken. Probably only need them for the summers, though.
Easy access to private life coaching !!! I would rather this NOT be a swamp initiative, I would love to see this from successful social justice warriors. Put "your" mouths to leadership instead of bitching about the man. Looking at you @UncleMark . Go share the steps to success instead of bitching about the man.
High rises? You're coming awfully close to Secretary Buttigieg, "The Roads are racist" here.
Yes Cabrini was the impetus behind the movement. Tons of research re the relationship between public housing poverty and crime. The idea that high rises concentrated crime and were bad for families. So they were razed all over the country and replaced with townhomes spread out around town. The idea that de concentrating poverty and dispersing residents around a wider area would result in net reductions in violent crime. I haven’t looked at the outcomes of all that in some time
I grew up in Wilmette dog.Suck it, North Shore:
3 Chicago suburbs make list of wealthiest suburbs in America
Three Chicago suburbs have made the list of the Top 50 Wealthiest Suburbs in America.www.fox32chicago.com
It was the plantation that Democrats wanted to keep Blacks on. Make them dependent on government and you have their vote. Sell them the thought of victim hood and they bought in, no different than what happened in Germany where everything was the Jews fault. Personal responsibility for Blacks went away with Johnson's Great Society. Social change by government mandate, no different than what progressives are forcing upon American people today. Republicans are pushing back unlike the 60's.
It is striking that the most vehemently racist presidents we’ve had are all Democrats,
I just don’t understand it. We’ve already lived with Trump as president, the world didn’t end.Is Willdog the username for Mayor Johnson?
Chicago mayor: Trump 'trying to bring back the Confederacy'
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson had strong words for Donald Trump on Thursday.
To scare people into voting for the other guy. For power.
No revenge tour was promised for the first Trump administration. No 900 page blueprint to seize total control
Because they are paying attention. When people tell you exactly what they intend to do, believe them.
No, it's precisely the opposite
These are histrionics. If you actually believe the world will end or “Democracy is on the ballot” or other such nonsense, then you are more untethered from reality than I had previously thought.
It is apolitical. If I thought that any Democrat running for office was completely incapable of accepting defeat in an election, I would say that Democracy was on the ballot and that Democrat must be defeated. That's not even considering the aspect of also planning a revenge tour.
Trump has never mentioned a revenge tour. You. Are. Lying.
Is Willdog the username for Mayor Johnson?
Chicago mayor: Trump 'trying to bring back the Confederacy'
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson had strong words for Donald Trump on Thursday.
He will simply say that none of those people are black. But it really hits home when you say stuff like.
Republicans are racists, who claim we did nothing. The Democrats did everything. We still be under separate but equal, unable to vote, denied fair housing, jobs, and education. They want to go back to Project 2025.
Jamie. Mayor Johnson is worthless. He may be black but he has no clue. He does not represent the majority of black people.
