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yellowwoodII

(616 posts)
3. Why isn't it being talked about?
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 06:11 PM
Mar 2016

If this kind of statistic was happening anywhere else, Fox News would be all over it. They'd be demanding "boots on the ground."

Ace Rothstein

(3,109 posts)
9. I'm hoping the warmer winter we had this year is what caused the increase and it levels off.
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 06:40 PM
Mar 2016

A few years ago shootings were WAY down due to the brutal cold we had in Jan and Feb. The spring and early summer was incredibly bloody that year.

 

cwydro

(51,308 posts)
8. Gang violence is generally not discussed on DU.
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 06:38 PM
Mar 2016

There was barely a peep here when that little 9 year old was brutally murdered because of his father's gang ties.

Smh.

REP

(21,691 posts)
11. What's the answer? Sic a notoriously corrupt police force on the black/Latino communities?
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 09:45 PM
Mar 2016

This is mostly disorganized gang violence, which is the product of poverty, which is born out of institutionalized racism. It's easy to hate gangs, but it isn't one gang; its dozens if not hundreds of little pissant gangs and their hyper-macho codes of family and honor and a lot of bad shooting. When a gang member shoots another gang member, cops and civilians tend to think "NHI" ("no humans involved&quot until a bullet hits a baby, but not taking those other shootings seriously leads to shot babies.

Chicago police are infamous for beating out confessions and closing cases with randomly selected suspects; even honest citizens avoid them at all cost to avoid being the convenient solution to a crime if they happen to fit the description.

The easiest fix? Flush Chicago PD and get honest cops.

The real fix? Honest cops, good policing, real equal opportunities, decent schools, a true hope for a good future.

Bettie

(15,998 posts)
13. Very well stated
Wed Mar 23, 2016, 08:38 AM
Mar 2016

Especially this:

"The real fix? Honest cops, good policing, real equal opportunities, decent schools, a true hope for a good future."

Orrex

(63,086 posts)
14. Because the number of daily shootings is wholly independent of my outrage
Wed Mar 23, 2016, 08:56 AM
Mar 2016

There is literally nothing I can do about it and, I submit, literally nothing you can do about it, either.

 

WhaTHellsgoingonhere

(5,252 posts)
15. Stay tuned. Mayor 1% doesn't want you to know, but there have been an astonishing 13 shootings
Wed Mar 23, 2016, 11:17 AM
Mar 2016

downtown Since January 1. Believe me, Mayor 1% is outraged, now.

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