And I spent the entire weekend in downtown Chicago. Of course I was in a more upper-class area where there were lots of conventions and lots of police.
You know, the areas that bring money into the city, not those ‘other’ areas.
If only we could have police everywhere…every bridge underpass, every convenience store and pool hall, every intersection, every living, bath, and bedroom…watching us and protecting us from each other and ourselves. Truly, that would be a very liberated world.
Sometimes I feel sorry for Rahm, Bloomberg and co; while they keep blaming the gun laws in other states and the 2nd amendment, what’s really getting in their way is the 4th. I bet the cops know exactly where they would have to raid to get a lot of the illegal guns and their felon owners off the street. But cordoning off a whole project and going door to door is off-limits, so they’re stuck with “stop and frisk” and big hand waving.
And demanding everybody else in the country solves their problem by stopping to sell guns, because the war on drugs clearly proves how well the government can control the inflow of illegal goods.
Hmmm. Maybe that explains why the Obama Re-Anointentment Ceremonies aren’t being held in his Home Town.
I mean, if one has to provide Security for that many VIPs, then one would have to ensure that the Natives stay in line, and that would look bad on the TeeWee.
Mu — if they know where the illegal guns are, they just need to present that to a judge to get a search warrant. Most likely, the problem is they don’t want to “distort” their crime stats with “too many” arrests of protected groups. Plus, the city government has reached agreements with some of those gangs, and the violence hasn’t spilled out of the agreed-upon bounds, yet.
“…cordoning off a whole project and going door to door is off-limits”
Probably due in part to the possibility that in order to prevent the situation from turning into another Mogadishu, they would have to amass a literal army of police. Regardless of the eventual outcome, that would look very bad in the news.
Why aren’t Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, etc. protesting these killings like they protested the killing of Trayvon Martin? It is because most of these killings are “black on black”.
Shame on them for turning their backs on these folks.
So did you know that Detroit has had more than 50 straight years of Democratic mayors? That Philadelphia has had more than 60? And that Chicago has had more than 80?
September 4th, 2012 at 9:05 pm
They should ban guns there or something.
Oh, wait…
September 4th, 2012 at 9:43 pm
Yep, those “among the nation’s strictest gun laws are really working…..NOT!
September 5th, 2012 at 7:19 am
Unpossible. The news must have it wrong, The Rahmfather has decreed that crime is down and guns are banned.
September 5th, 2012 at 8:08 am
And I spent the entire weekend in downtown Chicago. Of course I was in a more upper-class area where there were lots of conventions and lots of police.
You know, the areas that bring money into the city, not those ‘other’ areas.
September 5th, 2012 at 9:39 am
This is the answer.
If only we could have police everywhere…every bridge underpass, every convenience store and pool hall, every intersection, every living, bath, and bedroom…watching us and protecting us from each other and ourselves. Truly, that would be a very liberated world.
September 5th, 2012 at 9:51 am
Sometimes I feel sorry for Rahm, Bloomberg and co; while they keep blaming the gun laws in other states and the 2nd amendment, what’s really getting in their way is the 4th. I bet the cops know exactly where they would have to raid to get a lot of the illegal guns and their felon owners off the street. But cordoning off a whole project and going door to door is off-limits, so they’re stuck with “stop and frisk” and big hand waving.
And demanding everybody else in the country solves their problem by stopping to sell guns, because the war on drugs clearly proves how well the government can control the inflow of illegal goods.
September 5th, 2012 at 10:15 am
Hmmm. Maybe that explains why the Obama Re-Anointentment Ceremonies aren’t being held in his Home Town.
I mean, if one has to provide Security for that many VIPs, then one would have to ensure that the Natives stay in line, and that would look bad on the TeeWee.
September 5th, 2012 at 10:53 am
Mu — if they know where the illegal guns are, they just need to present that to a judge to get a search warrant. Most likely, the problem is they don’t want to “distort” their crime stats with “too many” arrests of protected groups. Plus, the city government has reached agreements with some of those gangs, and the violence hasn’t spilled out of the agreed-upon bounds, yet.
September 5th, 2012 at 11:01 am
“…cordoning off a whole project and going door to door is off-limits”
Probably due in part to the possibility that in order to prevent the situation from turning into another Mogadishu, they would have to amass a literal army of police. Regardless of the eventual outcome, that would look very bad in the news.
September 5th, 2012 at 11:22 am
Why aren’t Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, etc. protesting these killings like they protested the killing of Trayvon Martin? It is because most of these killings are “black on black”.
Shame on them for turning their backs on these folks.
September 5th, 2012 at 2:52 pm
I’m sure this is just a coincidence
September 5th, 2012 at 9:21 pm
Jeez, ya loan 50 cops to Charlotte for a week and everything goes to crap!