On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 19:02:18 -0500, "Bar Fly"
wrote:
"Hawke" wrote in message
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On 6/21/2010 6:32 PM, Ignoramus3314 wrote:
On 2010-06-22, wrote:
Ten people were killed and at least 44 others were shot across the city
Friday night into early Monday, including a baby girl who suffered a
graze
wound to the neck when gunfire erupted at a Near West Side barbecue.
Chicago is overall an unpleasant place to live, very hostile and
inconvenient. I am glad that I am not living there.
i
Yeah, and it's hard to believe so much carnage is going on in a place
where they banned virtually all guns. You would think a place where it was
against the law for anyone to own guns would be one of the safest places
in the would, wouldn't you? Unless maybe it's not the guns that are the
problem. Could that be it?
Hawke
If Chicago's West and South sides were their own cities, they'd be the
deadliest and most violent in America
Collectively, according to a Chicago Reporter analysis, Chicago's 11th and
15th police districts on the West Side had a higher murder rate last year
than New Orleans, the nation's deadliest city in 2009. Meanwhile, on the
South Side, collectively, the 6th and 7th districts had a higher rate of
violent crime than St. Louis, the nation's leading city for violent crime
per capita in 2009.
In 2009, the 6th, 7th, 11th and 15th police districts had the four highest
murder rates, among Chicago's 25 police districts. Those districts were also
home to four of the city's five highest rates of violent crime.
In 2009, the 11th district--which includes West Garfield Park, most of East
Garfield Park and portions of Austin, the Near West Side and North
Lawndale--recorded 55 murders. It was the highest one-year total for any
district in the city since the 11th district tallied 57 murders in 2003. The
collective murder rate for the 11th and 15th police districts--about 54
murders per 100,000 residents--was higher than the 51 per 100,000 recorded
for New Orleans, the nation's leader.
On the South Side, the 6th district--which includes most of Auburn Gresham
and Chatham and portions of Greater Grand Crossing and Roseland--logged more
than 2,700 incidents of violent crime in 2009. It was the first time in more
than a decade that a police district other than the 7th district led the
city in violent crime. The 7th district, which sits just north of the 6th
district and includes most of Englewood and West Englewood and portions of
Greater Grand Crossing, ranked second in 2009. Collectively, the rate of
violent crime in those two districts topped 2,750 incidents per 100,000
residents, about 700 more incidents per 100,000 than St. Louis, which led
the nation in 2009.
Map created using Maptitude 5.0
http://www.chicagonow.com/blogs/chic...n-america.html
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This sort of change doesn't "just happen."
First thought -- who is on the take and is "the fix" in?
What has changed in those areas? Ethnic/demographic shifts?
New gang wanting a piece of the drug franchise? Major
employer(s) packed up and went to Texas [or China?]
Given the huge amounts of money and effort now being spent
on surveillance of the American people, we should have at
least some answers. All we currently get [and are likely to
ever get] are the same old platitudes and snake-oil panaceas
from the same old gasbag politicians from the same old tired
parties. [FWIW -- no, its not all George W. Bush's fault,
and no, cutting taxes and business deregulation will not
solve this problem...]
http://www.cctvchicago.com/index.php...ts_list&cat=56
http://securitysolutions.com/mag/sec...e_cctv_coming/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed-circuit_television
"There are 2,200 CCTV systems in Chicago.""Is Chicago safe
from a terrorist attack?," Chicago Sun-Times
http://www.ice.gov/pi/nr/1006/100618chicago.htm
http://www.ice.gov/pi/nr/1004/100429chicago.htm
http://www.policemag.com/List/Tag/Ga...elligence.aspx
http://abcnews.go.com/US/gangs-turn-...ory?id=8785218
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/0..._n_545315.html
http://newsone.com/nation/associated...ting-freedoms/
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-- Unka George (George McDuffee)
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The past is a foreign country;
they do things differently there.
L. P. Hartley (1895-1972), British author.
The Go-Between, Prologue (1953).