CRIME Amid Spike in Chicago Shootings, Authorities Brace for Potentially Violent Holiday Weekend

[Housecarl]

So how high will the body count in the gun control and progressive government show piece of Chicago be this weekend?.....

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Amid Spike in Chicago Shootings, Authorities Brace for Potentially Violent Holiday Weekend

"What were trying to target here is repeat, violent offenders who are in possession of guns,” state Sen. Kwame Raoul said.

By Tom Schuba
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On the same day Chicago police revealed the city's violence has reached an "unacceptable level," authorities are bracing for what could be another violent holiday weekend.

According to the CPD, June saw 72 murders, 361 shootings and 447 shooting victims. That's compared to the 47 murders, 235 shootings and 290 shooting victims reported last year.


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On Thursday, a woman was killed and four others wounded in a single shooting on the city's South Side. Sixteen others were wounded in shootings across the city that day.

"The day she was brought into this world was the day she was taken away," the victim's mother said. "By a soul-less Chicago individual. For no reason."


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Police attributed the spike in crime to "repeat offenders with ties to gangs" and said a number of shootings have been "committed with illegal guns."

To combat crime, CPD is now adding more than 150 officers to the streets by hiring civilians to do office work.


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For the holiday weekend, the department is working with the FBI, Illinois State Police, the Cook County Sheriff's officed and the Chicago Office of Emergency Management and Communications.

Beginning Friday, thousands of uniformed and plainclothes CPD officers will be joined by FBI agents, state troopers and sheriff's deputies.


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"In addition to a heavy police presence on highways, and major thoroughfares, including Lake Shore Drive, extra police officers will be highly visible in neighborhoods throughout the city, and at city parks, along the lake, and at Navy Pier on the 4th," police said in a release.

The department is also using targeted raids to clamp down on violent crime. On Wednesday, 27 people were arrested on drug charges in araid in the 19th District.


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"CPD sent a strong message that violence and gang activity will not be tolerated when it completed a raid this week striking at street gangs throughout Chicago," the department said.

A group of Illinois lawmakers also announced legislation Friday aimed at holding repeat gun offenders accountable.


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The Violent Gun Offender Sentencing Act, which is still being drafted, would lay out “presumptive guidelines for prosecuting repeat offenders."

The bill, which is being introduced by state Rep. Michael Zalewski and state Sen. Antonio Munoz, would utilize existing sentencing guidelines and encourage prosecutors to give repeat offenders longer sentences.

"What were trying to target here is repeat, violent offenders who are in possession of guns,” state Sen. Kwame Raoul said. “People who we know will do harm unless we incapacitate them for a significant period of time."

Raoul explained that the legislation steered away from policies that have been tied to mass incarceration, like “truth in sentencing” and mandatory minimum sentencing. He claimed that those policies don’t give offenders the incentive to do rehabilitative prison programs because there is little opportunity to be rewarded for good behavior.

Raoul was joined by fellow lawmakers, as well as Father Michael Pfleger and a group of mothers who lost children to gun violence Friday.

Chicago Police Supt. Eddie Johnson thanked lawmakers for devising the legislation and condemned the city’s violent criminals.

“These violent offenders are only emboldened to continue their behavior and drive the unacceptable violence occurring in some of our neighborhoods while they display a brazen disregard for human life,” he said Friday.

Johnson explained that 85 percent of 2016 shooting victims, both non-fatal and fatal, are on the department's Strategic Subject List, which includes potential offenders and victims.

Lawmakers are rushing to the city to try to address the pervasive gun violence.

Sen. Dick Durbin visited the Lawndale neighborhood to discuss violence prevention efforts ahead of 4th of July Weekend, visiting with CPD officials from the 11th district and stopping by a community organization for grade schoolers.

Meanwhile, Sen. Mark Kirk met with local leaders, community organizers and law enforcement officials in Maywood Friday to discuss legislation and strategies to protect families from violence. Among the guests was Delphine Cherry, the co-president of the Chicagoland Chapter of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. Cherry is a Chicagoland mother who lost two children in separate shootings.

"We are here today to make sure there is a silver lining to the deaths of Tyesha and Tyler and that kids in Chicago aren't dying because of Washington gridlock," Kirk said in a statement. "That is why I have worked with the Democrat Senator from New York, Kristen Gillibrand, to draft this legislation that would stop guns from being trafficed into Illinois."

Kirk and Gillibrand introduced the Hadiya Pendleton and Nyasia Pryear-Yard Trafficing and Crime Prevention Act last year. The measure would make the trafficking of illegal guns a federal crime and would provide tools for law enforcement to get illegal weapons off the street.

The CPD has taken more than 4,300 guns off the street this year, accounting for a 30 percent increase from last year.

“While the vast majority of Chicago is a safe and growing city, we know that communities that have historically struggled with violence continue to bear the burden of gang members committing crimes with illegal guns. We have made clear to these criminals that we know who they are and we are using every resource at our disposal to hold them accountable for their actions,” Supt. Johnson said. “Nevertheless, we cannot arrest our way out of this problem, and we have to work together to create better opportunities for at-risk individuals, and ensure that repeat offenders who consistently wreak havoc on neighborhoods know that there are penalties for their actions. Working with all Chicagoans, CPD will continue its efforts to keep our streets safe.”

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[Housecarl]

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10 shootings a day: Complex causes of Chicago's spiking violence

Annie Sweeney and Jeremy Gorner•Contact Reporters
Chicago Tribune
July 1, 2016, 5:03 AM

To understand Chicago's violence, start at Kostner Avenue and Monroe Street and walk west up a one-way stretch of graystones and brick two-flats. There on a boarded-up front door you'll see the red stain of gang graffiti. On the cracked sidewalk below lies an empty heroin baggie. Hardened young men sit on a porch.

This single block on the West Side — part of the Harrison police district — has been the scene of at least six shootings so far this year. A masked gunman shot a teen in the stomach. A father delivering groceries to his daughter was shot before he could escape gunfire. And just last week, police again unspooled the yellow crime scene tape in the alley behind the block after a teen was fatally shot in the head.

As Chicago heads into the often violent July Fourth weekend, these kinds of stories are all too common in pockets of the West and South sides. At the halfway point of the year, homicides have jumped by 49 percent citywide to 312 through Tuesday, reaching levels unseen since the late 1990s. Shooting incidents have risen by even more, marking the third consecutive year of double-digit increases.

While it doesn't rank as the nation's murder capital on a per-capita basis, Chicago is the runaway leader in the sheer volume of killings and shootings. New York and Los Angeles don't even come close. Through June 19, Chicago had more homicides than those two larger cities combined, records show. The two combined had fewer than 1,000 shooting victims during that same period, while Chicago by Tuesday topped 1,900 — about 10 a day.

A closer look at the numbers shows the intractable hold that violence has in some of Chicago's 22 police districts. Two of the city's historically most violent police districts — Harrison and Englewood — account for fully one-fourth of the homicides and shooting incidents.

A complex mix of factors is driving the violence. But much of the bloodshed can be linked to gang conflict over everything from petty disputes to control of drug dealing, as well as the splintering of gangs into smaller cliques fighting over a few blocks at a time and easy access to guns, experts say.

Yet there are deeper societal problems at play as well, including long histories of poverty, joblessness, segregation and neglect in these crime-ridden neighborhoods.

The increased violence comes as the Police Department confronts an unprecedented crisis that has Chicago cops under the harshest light. The U.S. Justice Department is leading a wide-ranging probe of police practices in the wake of a video showing a white officer shooting black teen Laquan McDonald 16 times. The department also was forced into revamping its street stop procedures after the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois raised red flags over whether officers were violating citizens' civil rights.

All this has led many officers to feel unsure about stopping anyone. Just this week, the president of the police union said many officers feel that "no one has their backs." Other veteran officers agree that Chicago cops are dispirited and have slowed down on the kind of proactive policing that can remove a gun or criminal from the street.

The Tribune will be chronicling these issues in a series of stories over the coming summer months — traditionally the peak of the violence.

Yet there are deeper societal problems at play as well, including long histories of poverty, joblessness, segregation and neglect in these crime-ridden neighborhoods.

The increased violence comes as the Police Department confronts an unprecedented crisis that has Chicago cops under the harshest light. The U.S. Justice Department is leading a wide-ranging probe of police practices in the wake of a video showing a white officer shooting black teen Laquan McDonald 16 times. The department also was forced into revamping its street stop procedures after the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois raised red flags over whether officers were violating citizens' civil rights.

All this has led many officers to feel unsure about stopping anyone. Just this week, the president of the police union said many officers feel that "no one has their backs." Other veteran officers agree that Chicago cops are dispirited and have slowed down on the kind of proactive policing that can remove a gun or criminal from the street.

The Tribune will be chronicling these issues in a series of stories over the coming summer months — traditionally the peak of the violence.


"Well, you know, it's painful because its hard to imagine that they are up to anything positive," he said. "Because everything else in the neighborhood is so negative."

Unbowed, Hatch walked to the home a few minutes later and passed his business card across the wrought iron fence. The men responded with hard, vacant looks. No eye contact. Then they peeled off, one by one.

"You runnin' from God," a woman in front of the house told the young men.

The makeup of Chicago's gangs has changed dramatically over the years. They once were massive organizations with powerful leaders and hundreds of members who controlled large chunks of territory. Now small cliques battle for control over a few blocks.

Veteran officers say the fractured nature of gangs has made life more chaotic on the street, with rivals sometimes living just a few blocks apart.

Hatch thinks much of the violence involves retaliatory shootings stemming from so many homicides going unsolved, while police complain of too few witnesses willing to cooperate.

"That means you've got a lot of vigilantism going on out there," he said. "They think they have to get (justice) on their own."

On the West Side, on a street like Monroe that is minutes from the Eisenhower Expressway, nicknamed the "Heroin Highway" for its easy access for drug-buying suburbanites, fights for the lucrative drug spots are fueling much of the violence.

Asked what's behind all the shootings, a resident near the troubled 4400 block of West Monroe said, "Whoever's dealing the drugs."

On the other hand, shootings by gangs on the South Side tend to be more over controlling turf or seeking retribution, according to police and former gang members.

"South Side is about gangbanging," said one former gang member who lives near the Monroe block. "West Side is about money."

Experts also agree that personal disputes increasingly are playing a role in the violence. One veteran cop recalled with disbelief recently how a slaying he investigated boiled down to an insult over shoes.

Police also said so-called net-banging on social media fuels conflicts. Gang members have been known to post menacing videos on YouTube, showing them furtively entering rival territory, waving guns and issuing threats.

Guns: Tools of the trade

The third watch in the Harrison District was busy for a Tuesday evening in May, surprising even veteran officers. By the end of the approximately eight-hour shift, at least nine guns had been taken off the street.


The seizures reflect a persistent problem for Chicago: the proliferation of handguns.

Through Tuesday, police had recovered 4,300 guns from across the city, up 30 percent from a year earlier. Gun-related arrests have risen as well, to 1,530, the department said.

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Gun pipelines are plentiful for gang members, many of whom cannot legally buy firearms because of their criminal records. Gun shows and dealers operating under less stringent laws are a short drive away in northwest Indiana. Gang members also turn to legal buyers to purchase weapons for them at suburban Cook County and downstate gun shops — an illegal practice known as straw purchasing. Guns also are stolen in burglaries.

Roseanna Ander, executive director of the University of Chicago Crime Lab, who has studied gun issues, said gun seizure records suggest gang members in New York and Los Angeles carry fewer illegal firearms than those in Chicago.

"Unfortunately for Chicago, that has the tragic consequence of higher homicide rates and higher rates of shootings," Ander said.

That night in May in the Harrison District, the seizures began about 4 p.m. when two men in their 30s were arrested after officers saw them firing at each other near Troy Street and Jackson Boulevard. Officers confiscated a two-tone gray and black Smith & Wesson 9 mm and a Springfield .45-caliber.

In the next three hours, three more guns would be recovered — including one hidden under a vehicle passenger seat and another tucked into the pocket of a hoodie.

Ranking officers say reports from the field indicate more gang members are being caught carrying guns than in the past, a troubling trend that could explain in part the surge in shootings.

Like his predecessors, police Superintendent Eddie Johnson is pushing for tougher gun laws. In a telephone interview Wednesday, Johnson said repeat gun offenders are driving much of the violence, emboldened by the knowledge that there won't be serious consequences for their actions.

"Until they get the message ... that our judicial system is serious about holding them accountable, they're going to continue," he told the Tribune.

Poverty: 'Communities dumped on'

Johnson said poverty and economic disparity also play a part in fueling the violence in underprivileged areas, including the Harrison District.

"If you show me people without hope, I'll show you people that's willing to pick up a gun and do something with it," he said.

The Harrison District has been among the city's most violent for years and remains so. From the beginning of the year through Sunday, the West Side district led the city with 232 shooting incidents and was a close second with 38 homicides, both more than double a year earlier.

The communities in the West Side district have long struggled under the weight of low employment and poverty. Past census data show that far more households in the West Garfield Park neighborhood fell below the poverty level than the citywide average and that its unemployment rate was at times as high as 25 percent.

When Chicago Public Schools closed nearly 50 schools in the summer of 2013 because of underenrollment, three were in this lone West Side neighborhood.

"These communities are dumped on in a lot of ways," Hatch said. "... It's not just closing schools. It's the disinvestment, the sense of desolation. Who wants to live next door to a boarded-up school?"


Other areas are experiencing sharp increases in violence as well. Through Sunday, the Englewood District on the South Side led the city in homicides with 39, the Austin District on the West Side had seen a 142 percent increase in shooting incidents and homicides had risen 145 percent in the Deering District on the Southwest Side.

These communities share similar socio-economic struggles and entrenched gang problems.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel's Police Accountability Task Force, created in the fallout over the court-ordered release of the McDonald shooting video, concluded in its recent report that Chicago's segregation has "isolated" many black communities. It also linked failing social systems to pernicious crime, citing an "alarming lack of jobs as well as a dearth of basic community services and anchors like decent schools, day care, churches, community centers, parks or grocery stores."

"These same neighborhoods are ravaged by violent crime," said the report, citing the Austin, North Lawndale, Englewood and Roseland neighborhoods.

For many, the lure of a gang and the quick cash of its illicit drug market are too powerful to resist given the economic realities.

While the gangs drive violence, failing social systems thwart any chance for meaningful change, said Andrew Papachristos, a Yale University sociologist who has studied the city's crime patterns, particularly in the Harrison District.

"You don't see the long-term investment," he said. "When police come out and take out a drug corner or go after a certain drug operation, what investment has been made on the other side to stop the next generation from coming up?"

Police: Going fetal?

The troubling video of Officer Jason Van Dyke fatally shooting 17-year-old McDonald has created a firestorm for the Police Department, touching off weeks of protest, the firing of Superintendent Garry McCarthy and the in-depth Justice Department probe of police practices.

Morale plummeted as officers expressed concern about their every move being captured on smartphone video, a Tribune story reported earlier this year. Some have suggested that officers became hesitant to make street stops and arrests for fear of backlash.

In a speech Tuesday, Dean Angelo Sr., president of the Fraternal Order of Police, said street stops had plunged by 150,000 so far this year, but he blamed the more extensive paperwork that officers must fill out this year for every street stop, not the so-called Ferguson effect — a reference to a slowdown by police nationwide because of increased scrutiny after a fatal police shooting in Ferguson, Mo. Even before the McDonald video was released, Emanuel had said officers in Chicago and across the country had gone "fetal" to avoid being the next viral video.

Superintendent Johnson told the Tribune he thinks officers were simply confused earlier in the year about how to fill out the street stop forms, and savvy criminals noticed that cops weren't being as proactive on the street.

"And if I'm a criminal, and I'm a good criminal, I'm going to take advantage of the situation," he said.


Another veteran cop said the forms are so complicated that they take as long as an hour to fill out, keeping officers from street duty and leading many to reconsider whether a stop is worth the effort. It's affected the department's ability to gather intelligence on gangs, he believes. The officer spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to do so by the department.

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The ACLU has disputed the notion that fewer street stops contribute to spikes in violence. The group has maintained that the way Chicago police have stopped residents was unconstitutional and needed to be fixed to protect the public.

While it might seem logical that inaction by police will lead to increased violence, criminologists caution against a rush to judgment. Instead, they argue that violence typically persists in communities in which relations between police and residents are frayed because of lack of trust and communication.

"When communities lose confidence in the police to protect them and to serve their interests effectively, community members often will take matters into their own hands and settle disputes violently," said Richard Rosenfeld, a professor of criminology and criminal justice at the University of Missouri at St. Louis. "I think that's what you are seeing playing out on the streets of Chicago right now."

Emanuel's task force on policing also zeroed in on the lack of trust between police and communities of color as one of the significant issues facing the Police Department. It found that the department's flagship effort to build trust — the decades-old Chicago Alternative Policing Strategy — had been "significantly damaged after years of neglect."

On numerous occasions since taking office in March, Johnson has acknowledged the department's breakdown in trust with the community.

"Community relationships with CPD are so important," he said Wednesday. "And that's why it's so important for us to re-establish trust and gain trust where we didn't have it before."

'In the blink of an eye'

Herbert Lee can remember a few fleeting images as he was parking his Chevy Monte Carlo last February in the 4400 block of West Monroe.

Three people standing outside a building. Another crossing the street. A passing car. Then boom.

"When I heard the gunshots, I just immediately took off," Lee said last weekend as he sat in his mother-in-law's West Side apartment. "I was trying to get off the block because I didn't know where the shots was coming, where they were directed toward."

He got a about a block away before another round of shots shattered his windshield and a bullet hit him in his face.

A bulge is noticeable on the right side of Lee's neck, where he said the bullet is still lodged.

Almost five months later, he is still shaken.

"I'm used to the violence. I'm used to hearing gunshots. I'm used to seeing victims. But I'm not used to being shot," he said. "In the blink of an eye, I could have been gone."

More recently, on May 23, a 16-year-old boy was fatally shot near the alley behind the Monroe block.

Minutes after the shooting, a group of teens and young men lingered as police worked the scene.

"Don't ask me (expletive)," one man said to a reporter.

"Move it along," another said.

Farther down Monroe, a woman and her nephew sat smoking in the dark on their front porch behind a wrought iron fence that has been nicked by bullets in the past.

"We're concerned," said the 27-year-old nephew, an electrician. "I feel there's nothing we can do about it."

Chicago Tribune's Peter Nickeas contributed.

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[BetterLateThanNever]

"What were trying to target here is repeat, violent offenders who are in possession of guns,” state Sen. Kwame Raoul said.

But Kwame, isn't the possession of guns against the law in your great city?

 

[Nowski]

There should be many many more holidays, as the holidays are days
that bring enjoyment to people's lives, being that it is POS ******s,
that will be doing the shootings, the woundings and the dying,
people should be thankful, as there will be less POS ******s in Chicongo.

Hurrah for July 4th in Chicongo. May the POS ******s aim be straight and true,
as they blow each others brains out.

Regards to all,
Nowski

 

[Sasquatch]

"Potentially Violent" now that's funny when talking about Chicongo

 

[Housecarl]

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Friday, July 01, 2016

Cause and Effect

Jack Dunphy wrote a follow up to the article we covered the other day in this post. In it, he takes on the "Ferguson Effect:"
•Do you still think there’s no such thing as the “Ferguson effect”? What about the “war on cops”--is that a myth, too? Crime is going down, we are reassured by Politifact, which gave Donald Trump’s assertion to the contrary earlier this month the “Pants on Fire” classification, its lowest rating. “Donald Trump said, ‘Crime is rising,’” said the Politifact headline. “It’s not (and hasn’t been for decades.” And just above that headline was the Politifact logo, which everywhere it appears boasts, “Winner of the Pulitzer Prize.”

Yes, says Politifact, we have won journalism’s most prestigious award (whatever that’s worth these days), while Donald Trump is . . . Donald Trump, so only a fool would give credence to his claims over ours.

Or maybe not. Our friends at the American Enterprise Institute took the trouble to practice a bit of journalism and give those Pulitzer Prize winners some schooling. “There’s a big problem with their conclusion,” says AEI, “Politifact just stopped looking at data in 2014.”

Gee, what happened in 2014 that might have caused crime to rise?
•So let’s look back to that year. Did something happen that might have influenced crime? Was there some event or series of events that caused America’s police officers to lose heart and slow down their efforts in combatting crime? On July 17, 2014, Eric Garner died in Staten Island after struggling with NYPD officers trying to arrest him for selling cigarettes. Less than a month later, Michael Brown was shot and killed in Ferguson, Mo., after committing a robbery and attempting to disarm a police officer. And out of those deaths arose the Black Lives Matter movement, whose members have since been peddling the lie that the ills of America’s inner cities can be blamed on a racist criminal justice system and the “prison-industrial complex,” which depends on racist police officers to feed helpless and blameless blacks into its gaping, insatiable maw.

The media bought it, over-educated elites bought it, and of course politicians bought it, from local rabble-rousers right up to the Rabble-Rouser in Chief. All of them engaged in a shameful campaign of disinformation intended to distract from the genuine problem of black crime. And as a result, more black lives have been and will continue to be lost before this trend is reversed.

Go read the entire article - we've borrowed enough here to pique your interest. He does a helluva number on the state of policing under the "progressive" agenda.


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posted by SCC at 12:07 AM 36 comments

 

[BetterLateThanNever]

Hurrah for July 4th in Chicongo. May the POS ******s aim be straight and true,as they blow each others brains out.

Regards to all,
Nowski

You have the right idea but it seems that more innocent people, kids etc are shot by mistake because these animals haven't learned that you can't hit your target while holding your gun sideways.

 

[Nowski]

You have the right idea but it seems that more innocent people, kids etc are shot by mistake because these animals haven't learned that you can't hit your target while holding your gun sideways.

A good friend told this to me, not long ago.

Q. Why do ******s hold their guns sideways?
A. Because that is how they come out of the box.

Regards to all,
Nowski

 

[Stormy]

OK, I'll guess 86 shot, 19 killed.

 

[BetterLateThanNever]

I would say that was a good one but it might be true.

 

[Murt]

A group of Illinois lawmakers also announced legislation Friday aimed at holding repeat gun offenders accountable

so in chicago you get a mulligan for the first gun offense
meanwhile remember this from a few years back in DC
A hunter and gun owner, Mr. Witaschek has always kept his firearms at his sister’s house in Virginia. If convicted, he faces a year in jail and a $1,000 fine for having a single, inoperable shotgun shell in his home
now that is what I call white privilege

 

[poppy]

"What were trying to target here is repeat, violent offenders who are in possession of guns,” state Sen. Kwame Raoul said.

But Kwame, isn't the possession of guns against the law in your great city?

Nah, lots of people have guns legally in Chicago. Many are also getting concealed carry permits. Check out Armslist Illinois for guns for sale. Probably half of them listed are from Chicago. Fortunately, when Illinois finally passed concealed carry, the law prohibits cities in Illinois from passing gun laws stronger than the state law. However, any laws already on the books before concealed carry passed are still valid.

 

[Millwright]

A good friend told this to me, not long ago.

Q. Why do ******s hold their guns sideways?
A. Because that is how they come out of the box.

Regards to all,
Nowski

Ohhh jeeez Nowski...

That caused vodka out the nose.

 

[Doomer Doug]

Oh my God, Housecarl, they really are serious. They plan to "target" pun intended gun violence. They say gun violence is "unacceptable." Well, whenever "they" use the mush word "unacceptable," which is the preferred term for any and all deviant, psychotic, brain dead behavior by the elite.

Of course, what is really happening is a bunch of psycho, BLACK AND OTHER MINORITY CRIMINALS AND GANG MEMBERS ARE KILLING EACH OTHER OFF WITH GLEE. FURTHER, THEY ARE SUCH BAD SHOTS THEY MURDER A BUNCH OF KIDS, OLD PEOPLE AND OTHERS WHO JUST HAVE THE MISFORTUNE TO LIVE IN THE CESSPOOL CALLED CHICAGO.

Housecarl, I saw somewhere that several thousand millionaires had left Chicago in the last Year? or whatever.

You left out the whiny speech by Rahm Emmanuel. Our major cities have now been under liberal Democratic party control for the last several decades at least. That is more than enough time for the chaos and rot to become structural. we are looking at six generations of welfare/gang members now. The kids doing the shooting are the great grandchildren of the original gangsters from 40 to 50 years ago.

Even if you are rich Chicago is no place for a white person now at all.

 

[Publius]

Gun shows are not a pipe line for these people and law enforcement very rarely admits that any gun recovered from a crime or taken off some street thug is stolen. I guess they do this to avoid having to return it to its rightful owner.

 

[Housecarl]

Oh my God, Housecarl, they really are serious. They plan to "target" pun intended gun violence. They say gun violence is "unacceptable." Well, whenever "they" use the mush word "unacceptable," which is the preferred term for any and all deviant, psychotic, brain dead behavior by the elite.

Of course, what is really happening is a bunch of psycho, BLACK AND OTHER MINORITY CRIMINALS AND GANG MEMBERS ARE KILLING EACH OTHER OFF WITH GLEE. FURTHER, THEY ARE SUCH BAD SHOTS THEY MURDER A BUNCH OF KIDS, OLD PEOPLE AND OTHERS WHO JUST HAVE THE MISFORTUNE TO LIVE IN THE CESSPOOL CALLED CHICAGO.

Housecarl, I saw somewhere that several thousand millionaires had left Chicago in the last Year? or whatever.

You left out the whiny speech by Rahm Emmanuel. Our major cities have now been under liberal Democratic party control for the last several decades at least. That is more than enough time for the chaos and rot to become structural. we are looking at six generations of welfare/gang members now. The kids doing the shooting are the great grandchildren of the original gangsters from 40 to 50 years ago.

Even if you are rich Chicago is no place for a white person now at all.

Gun shows are not a pipe line for these people and law enforcement very rarely admits that any gun recovered from a crime or taken off some street thug is stolen. I guess they do this to avoid having to return it to its rightful owner.

Yeah, I just ran out of time today trying to follow stuff to dig deeper or comment. Looks like unless I get a call tomorrow I can go full news hound this weekend.

I cringed on that "gun show loophole" crap, particularly looking at what we're now facing in CA now. (Am here for the duration due to family responsibilities. It sure sucks being the lone responsible adult.)

 

[Dennis Olson]

Last week, a headhunter sent me an email about a Chicongo gig, and asked what I'd want for an hourly rate. My reply?


$750/hr



I never heard back from them. Gee, I wonder why....

 

[Illini Warrior]

Nah, lots of people have guns legally in Chicago. Many are also getting concealed carry permits. Check out Armslist Illinois for guns for sale. Probably half of them listed are from Chicago. Fortunately, when Illinois finally passed concealed carry, the law prohibits cities in Illinois from passing gun laws stronger than the state law. However, any laws already on the books before concealed carry passed are still valid.

that's not exactly correct - there were all kinds of self governing cities with gun laws that were overroad by the new CCW law - the only one really to be grandfathered in was one pertaining to "assault rifles" - and that now only applies to a dozen cities out of a possible 2500 self governing cities .... it's clean strait forward IL gun laws across the state now ....

in regard to CCW permits - Cook County had the greatest majority of permit holders anywhere in the state - most likely Chicago have the majority of that subgroup ....

 

[TorahTips]

I'm thinking about leaving the city for good. The gun violence is usually on the Southside and the Westside. Those two areas are places that most folk don't go -- not even blacks. Those areas are war zones (no exaggeration). However, now the gun violence is spilling over into the more civilized areas. And, it's not just gun violence. There are other forms of robbery etc that are cropping up in the high class rich areas.

Methinks it might be time to depart. The gun violence alone increased about 70% in a year. Wow. Now most of that is because the police are afraid to act because of the bad press they got. But still, that's a huge increase.

I bet there won't be 80 people shot in Baghdad this weekend....

 

[vestige]

•New Plan Aims to Bring Jobs to Struggling Neighborhoods

Wonderful idea but the negros don't want a job.

A group of Illinois lawmakers also announced legislation Friday aimed at holding repeat gun offenders accountable.
"What were trying to target here is repeat, violent offenders who are in possession of guns,” state Sen. Kwame Raoul said. “People who we know will do harm unless we incapacitate them for a significant period of time."

Repeat offenders should have never been given the opportunity to repeat their offenses.

Revolving door courts ensure they get the opportunity to repeat.

The CPD has taken more than 4,300 guns off the street this year, accounting for a 30 percent increase from last year.

Looks like it had the opposite effect intended from the statistics provided in the article.

It is recommended they get 4300 negros off the street and look at the statistics then.

“While the vast majority of Chicago is a safe and growing city, we know that communities that have historically struggled with violence continue to bear the burden of gang members committing crimes with illegal guns.

Communities that have historically struggled with violence are primarily negro infested hell holes.

There is a message there somewhere.

These b*st*rds, especially the one pictured, have some kind of major mental disconnect regarding negros.

They are one trick ponies that think the presence of guns in some way determines a negro's character and actions to wit:

"I have cut off the table legs three times and the table is still too short!"

It is stupidity of this level that gave rise to the following phrase regarding one's level of mental competence:

"He is as sharp as a three day old ******."

 

[NoDandy]

There should be many many more holidays, as the holidays are days
that bring enjoyment to people's lives, being that it is POS ******s,
that will be doing the shootings, the woundings and the dying,
people should be thankful, as there will be less POS ******s in Chicongo.

Hurrah for July 4th in Chicongo. May the POS ******s aim be straight and true,
as they blow each others brains out.

Regards to all,
Nowski

Nowski, maybe we should air drop in pallets of ammo, and extra guns, to help it along. Maybe a few flame throwers also.

 

[vestige]

Nowski, maybe we should air drop in pallets of ammo, and extra guns, to help it along. Maybe a few flame throwers also.

The only thing that can be "dropped" on Chicago that will eliminate its problem will detonate at about 2000'.

 

[tiger13]

Repeat offenders and "longer sentences" If these fools would have only used the prescribed federal guidelines that called for the minimum of 10, 15 or 25 years in FEDERAL prison for convicted felons in possession of a firearm, or possession of a firearm in commission of a violent crime they would have had these gangbangers off the streets by now. It is the same old story all across the country. They DO NOT WANT to get them off the street, they USE these idiots as tools for, gun control talking points, tools to get more funds for law enforcement goodies, tools for more money for the ghetto areas, tools for : add your own answer here... You get the picture.

The bottom line is, there are literally thousands of state, and federal laws that are available to district attorneys to use to arrest, and KEEP these repeat offenders off their streets, but they are not using them! And the people are told we need "more tools, or MORE gun laws to do it with, BULL SHIT, you have enough laws, enforce them, use them, arrest them, send them away for long federal terms in federal prison.

 

[Housecarl]

For links see article source.....
Posted for fair use.....
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/...-raise-holiday-toll-to-36-20160704-story.html

Monday afternoon shootings raise holiday toll to 36

Carlos Sadovi•Contact Reporter
Chicago Tribune
July 4, 2016, 4:52 PM

Three people were wounded in shootings on the South and West sides Monday afternoon, Chicago police said.

The attacks raised the number of people shot in the city over the Fourth of July weekend to at least 36, according to data collected by the Tribune. Among the 36 shootings, two people were fatally shot over the weekend holiday.

A third person was stabbed in a domestic-related incident and is not being counted among the 36 people shot, police said.

The latest shooting happened at 2:15 p.m. on the 1500 block of West Garfield Boulevard in the Back of the Yards neighborhood, said Officer Thomas Sweeney, a police spokesman.

A 17-year-old was in a vehicle that was stopped when another vehicle pulled up and shots were fired, hitting the teen in the shoulder, Sweeney said.

The teen was taken to St. Bernard Hospital, where his condition had stabilized.

At 1:25 p.m., a 33-year-old man was shot on the 9800 block of South Ingleside Avenue in the Cottage Grove Heights neighborhood on the South Side, Sweeney said.

The man was shot in the buttocks and leg and was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center, where his condition was stabilized. The man was on the street when a van pulled up and people exited and began firing.

Around 12:15 p.m. in the Princeton Park neighborhood on the Southeast Side, a 27-year-old man was shot on the 200 block of West 95th Street, Sweeney said.

The man was shot in the legs and was taken to Little Company of Mary Hospital in good condition, Sweeney said.

 

[Housecarl]

For links see article source.....
Posted for fair use.....
http://www.fox32chicago.com/news/crime/169441627-story

Cops: Man, 2 daughters killed in act of 'pure evil'

Posted:Jul 04 2016 11:44AM CDT
Updated:Jul 04 2016 03:21PM CDT


HAZEL CREST, Ill. (AP) - The police chief of a Chicago suburb where a man and his two daughters were killed Saturday in their home called the act "pure evil" and urged anyone with information to share it with investigators.

Authorities have not identified any suspects in the shootings in Hazel Crest, but police Chief Mitchell Davis says it was a "targeted event."

"Anyone who could kill a 3-year-old and a 10-year-old, that's pure evil as far as I'm concerned," Davis said at a news conference Sunday.

Dionus M. Neely, 39, and his daughters, 3-year-old Endia and 10-year-old Elle, were fatally shot.

Davis said the crime was "not a random act of violence" and that Hazel Crest residents were not in danger.

Erin Neeley told the Chicago Sun-Times that her husband and five children were sleeping on two twin beds and a couch in the living room when the attack happened at about 2:20 a.m.

"After I didn't hear any more shots I crawled on the floor and closed the front door because it was open," she said. "And then I crawled over to the couch where my two daughters were sleeping and pulled them down to the floor. And they were limp."

She said police told her it's possible the attacker kicked open their front door. The door was boarded up Sunday.

"Only by the grace of God we weren't hit," Erin Neeley said.

She said her husband was a stay-at-home dad.

"He was a good father. He loved all his kids," she said.

Davis said the only time police had been called to the home prior to the shooting was a few months ago on a report of property damage.

Erin Neeley told the Sun-Times her husband had a criminal record that included drug-related arrests but that "he'd cleaned up his life."

Neighbor Joanne Polzin told WMAQ-TV she awoke to gunshots and heard Erin Neeley screaming.

"I heard the mother screaming. She was just wailing, 'My babies, my babies,'" Polzin said.

Thirty detectives from the South Suburban Major Crimes Task Force were investigating. The team includes detectives from the state police, the Cook County Sheriff's Office, and suburban police departments.

Davis asked the public to inform Hazel Crest police if they know something.

"You cannot commit a crime like the one that was committed yesterday and have no one know about it," he said Sunday. "Somebody knows about what transpired."

 

[Doomer Doug]

bump

 

[Thor_axx]

4 Dead, 50 wounded this past holiday weekend......

 

[mzkitty]

They went nuts with gun action all over the country this weekend. I won't bother itemizing them, since I know you can just imagine.

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27m
3 children among at least 60 shot over holiday weekend in Chicago - Chicago Tribune

July 5, 2016


Thirty-two people were shot in 15 hours between about noon on Monday and 3 a.m. on Tuesday to end the July 4th weekend, doubling the total number of gunshot victims from the three previous nights, according to police.

Among the wounded were a 5-year-old girl and 7-year-old boy playing on an Englewood street and two adults who were nearby at the time, according to police.

The two were in the 5500 block of South Hermitage about 11 p.m. when at least one person started shooting, hitting the two children. The younger was first taken to Saint Bernard Hospital and Healthcare Center by family members before being transferred to Comer Children's Hospital. The older was taken to Comer Children's Hospital by paramedics.

Police lay markers next two shell casings in the middle of Hermitage and more markers next to a separate location of shell casings further north in the block, on the sidewalk. Officers taped off Hermitage from Garfield Boulevard to 56th Street as officers scanned the street for evidence. Family members gathered at Comer Children's Hospital, where both kids were taken.

Relatives said the kids were outside playing with fireworks when at least one person started shooting, though there was at least one other person with the shooter. They had emerged from a gangway looking suspicious, relatives said, and the shooting started not long after that. Though police said the boy was 7, relatives said he was 8.

The girl and the boy, who are cousins, were playing outside in a group of children when someone came out of a gang way and fired shots, according to family. Dozens of people were on the block, and people scattered.

The girl was the first one the family realized was shot. Her cousin, Darryl Smith, drove her to Comer Children's Hospital.

"I literally ran through every red light," he said as he stood outside Comer's early Tuesday morning.

A couple of minutes later, relatives realized that the 8-year-old was also shot. An ambulance took him to the hospital. Both children were shot in the leg. The boy was in surgery because his ankle broke as a result of his injury.

Two other adults were shot in the same incident but didn't show up to the hospital until some time after the shooting. A 30-year-old woman and a 19-year-old man were each shot in the left leg and walked into the University of Chicago Hospital seeking treatment.

Another boy, 11, was shot in the 2000 block of South Western Avenue about 11 p.m. He was taken to Saint Anthony's Hospital with an injury that he thought was caused by errant fireworks. Medical professionals looked at the wound and determined it was caused by gunfire, according to police.

The attacks raised the number of people shot in the city over the Fourth of July weekend to at least 60, according to data collected by the Tribune. Among those, four people were fatally shot over the weekend holiday.

Of the 60 shot over the weekend, 28 were wounded between about noon Sunday and 3 a.m. Monday morning.

A fifth person killed over the weekend was stabbed in a domestic-related incident, police said.

In other shootings:

Two people were shot in the 800 block of North Lavergne Avenue in the Austin neighborhood about 3:05 a.m. A man, between 18 and 25 years old, walked into West Suburban Medical Center seeking treatment for a gunshot wound. A woman he was with, 30, was also shot in the back. She was transferred from West Sub to Stroger Hospital in critical condition, police said. They were in a car at a stop sign when someone shot at their car, police said.

A few minutes earlier, a 28-year-old man was shot in the 1000 block of North Latrobe. He also walked into West Sub about the same time as the victims from Lavergne. He's in good condition. It's not clear how he came to be shot.

Three people were shot near the corner of Ohio Street and Christiana Avenue the East Garfield Park neighborhood about 3 a.m. A 24-year-old woman was grazed and taken to Stroger in good condition, police said. Two men, 34 and 36, were each left in serious condition with multiple gunshot wounds. The 34-year-old was taken to Stroger and the 36-year-old to Mount Sinai, police said. Someone inside a gold Chrysler fired at a crowd as they were standing outside, police said.

A 35-year-old man walked into Advocate Trinity Hospital seeking treatment for a gunshot wound about 2:45 a.m., police said. He wasn't sure where he was shot but police found his shot-up car near 92nd and Merrill Avenue, police said. Investigators later determined he had been shot in the 1900 block of East 87th Street.

Someone shot a 22-year-old woman in the 6800 block of South Campbell Avenue about 2:30 a.m. She's in serious condition with head and shoulder wounds, police said. She was sitting in a parked car when a man walked up and opened fire, police said. She was taken to Christ Hospital.

A 19-year-old was shot in the leg in the East Garfield Park neighborhood about 2:15 a.m. He was near the corner of Pulaski Road and Wilcox Avenue when shot but was uncooperative, police said. His condition was stabilized at Stroger Hospital.

Three people were shot in the Humboldt Park neighborhood about 1:35 a.m. One man, 34, died at the scene. A 29-year-old woman was shot in the right leg, right knee and right shoulder and was taken to Stroger Hospital in serious condition. A 31-year-old woman was shot in the right hand and taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, police said. The man was talking to two women, who were sitting in a car, when an argument started and two people fired toward the man, hitting him and the two women.

Someone shot a 26-year-old woman in the right leg in the 11500 block of South Racine Avenue in the West Pullman neighborhood. She also suffered a graze wound to her head. She was walking into a home on the block about 1:35 a.m. when she heard an argument and then gunfire. She was taken to Roseland Hospital and doctors there stabilized her condition.

A 20-year-old woman was grazed downtown during a shooting near Jackson Boulevard and Michigan Avenue, police said. The shooting happened about 1 a.m. The woman was treated by paramedics from Ambulance 41 at the scene. The shooting happened as she saw a group of young men running toward her.

Someone shot a man in the Brighton Park neighborhood about 12:40 a.m., police said. The incident happened in a gas station at Archer Avenue and 39th Place. The 23-year-old man shot was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital in serious condition.

A 26-year-old man walking through an alley in the 6200 block of South Drexel Avenue about 12:20 a.m. was shot in the face by someone who fired at least 20 rounds toward him. He was confronted by three people, one of whom opened fire, and was taken to Stroger Hospital in critical condition after he was shot, police said.

Someone shot a 15-year-old boy in the first block west of State Street on 79th Street about 12 a.m. Tuesday. He was walking out of a store when someone stepped out of a car and fired toward the boy, hitting him in the leg. He's in critical condition at Comer Children's Hospital.

Two teens were shot in the 10500 block of South Yates Boulevard about 11:35 p.m. They were in a car when someone in another car fired toward them, hitting them both. A 17-year-old girl was shot in the right shoulder and a 19-year-old man was grazed in the back, police said. Both were treated at Advocate Trinity Hospital.

A man in his 30s was killed Monday night in the 6900 block of South Clyde Avenue in the South Shore neighborhood. Police responded to a traffic crash and found him in the street, shot in the abdomen. The man was taken to Stroger Hospital in critical condition, police said, but later pronounced dead. That happened about 9:20 p.m.

About the same time, two men were shot in the 5700 block of South May Street, police said. A 24-year-old man was shot in left hand, back and right leg and taken to Stroger Hospital and a 37-year-old man wounded in the same incident was taken to Saint Bernard Hospital in good condition. He had a leg wound. Someone on foot fired shots toward them, hitting them both.

A 24-year-old man was left in critical condition with a chest wound from a shooting in the 1800 block of West Erie Street about 9 p.m., police said. He was at a party when someone on a bike fired toward the man, hitting him in the chest.

About 8:30 p.m., someone shot a 29-year-old man in the leg in the 7200 block of South Artesian Avenue. He was outside in a crowd when someone walked up and shot him in the leg. He's in good condition at Advocate Christ Medical Center.

About 7:15 p.m. a 32-year-old man shot shot on the 1700 block of North Mozart Street in the Logan Square neighborhood, police said. The man was walking when he was shot in the left knee, police said. The man, who is a gang member, was taken to Stroger Hospital, where his condition stabilized, police said.

At 2:15 p.m., a person was shot on the 1500 block of West Garfield Boulevard in the Back of the Yards neighborhood, said Officer Thomas Sweeney, a police spokesman. A 17-year-old was in a vehicle that was stopped when another vehicle pulled up and shots were fired, hitting the teen in the shoulder, Sweeney said. The teen was taken to St. Bernard Hospital, where his condition had stabilized.

At 1:25 p.m., a 33-year-old man was shot on the 9800 block of South Ingleside Avenue in the Cottage Grove Heights neighborhood on the South Side, Sweeney said. The man was shot in the buttocks and leg and was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center, where his condition was stabilized. The man was on the street when a van pulled up and people exited and began firing.

Around 12:15 p.m. in the Princeton Park neighborhood on the Southeast Side, a 27-year-old man was shot on the 200 block of West 95th Street, Sweeney said. The man was shot in the legs and was taken to Little Company of Mary Hospital in good condition, Sweeney said.

There is a map under the article of where exactly the shootings occurred:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/...-raise-holiday-toll-to-36-20160704-story.html