Congratulations Chicago: Surpassed Last Years Murder Record: 436th Homicide Today

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Mayor Rahm Emanuel said today that it's "not good" the city has surpassed the homicide total for all of last year, even as he sought to keep the spotlight on what he said have been successes in fighting crime.


"We have other milestones," Emanuel said. "One is, overall crime is down 9 percent in the city, has seen the largest drop ever. Second, we're tearing down the 200th building today where gangbangers and drug dealers hang out."


At 10:30 a.m. today, the city logged its 436th homicide, surpassing the total of 435 for all of last year.

Five people were killed and six were wounded in a 24-hour period in Chicago that extended into Monday morning.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/...n-west-side-shooting-20121028,0,4971446.story

With two months left to go, they should be able to hit 450 without a problem
 
Sad...

I remember the debate over the 1994 Crimes Bill and how Republicans and the right demonized the most constructive part of that bill.

In the early to mid 90's Congress crafted a crimes bill. The original funding framework called for equal thirds of the money to go to 1) police enforcement 2) prisons 3) crime prevention

The crime prevention part of the bill would go toward education, job training, community engagement by law enforcement, child-centered activities (money for arts and crafts, dance programs, recreational activities, nutrition training, and so forth), assorted inner city youth activity programs, urban parks and recreation, schools (money is to be used "to improve the academic and social development of youths by instituting a collaborative structure that trains and coordinates efforts of social workers, teachers, and principles."), youth development for such activities as "providing youth with life skills" , drug treatment programs in prisons. and facilities like community centers.

Statistics showed that the majority of youth crimes are committed after school lets out and before dinner time. It is not difficult to see what is missing during that time period, adult supervision. So the idea was to provide a safe and supervised facility where these kids could go.

It was during this period that Newt Gingrich and the 'Contract with America' Republicans took over Congress.

The 'Contract with America' Republicans attacked, demonized and tried to defund the crime prevention part of the bill. Republicans and the right believe the only way to solve our problems is through punishment. And if that doesn't work, the punishment is just not severe enough.

The real irony of that debate; Police Chiefs from around the country ascended on Washington to lobby Congress FOR the prevention provisions, because they knew that the best way to help law enforcement was not more police or more punishment, it was through education, training and community activism.
 
Sad...

I remember the debate over the 1994 Crimes Bill and how Republicans and the right demonized the most constructive part of that bill.

In the early to mid 90's Congress crafted a crimes bill. The original funding framework called for equal thirds of the money to go to 1) police enforcement 2) prisons 3) crime prevention

The crime prevention part of the bill would go toward education, job training, community engagement by law enforcement, child-centered activities (money for arts and crafts, dance programs, recreational activities, nutrition training, and so forth), assorted inner city youth activity programs, urban parks and recreation, schools (money is to be used "to improve the academic and social development of youths by instituting a collaborative structure that trains and coordinates efforts of social workers, teachers, and principles."), youth development for such activities as "providing youth with life skills" , drug treatment programs in prisons. and facilities like community centers.

Statistics showed that the majority of youth crimes are committed after school lets out and before dinner time. It is not difficult to see what is missing during that time period, adult supervision. So the idea was to provide a safe and supervised facility where these kids could go.

It was during this period that Newt Gingrich and the 'Contract with America' Republicans took over Congress.

The 'Contract with America' Republicans attacked, demonized and tried to defund the crime prevention part of the bill. Republicans and the right believe the only way to solve our problems is through punishment. And if that doesn't work, the punishment is just not severe enough.

The real irony of that debate; Police Chiefs from around the country ascended on Washington to lobby Congress FOR the prevention provisions, because they knew that the best way to help law enforcement was not more police or more punishment, it was through education, training and community activism.


What a pinhead.....all you can do is blame, blame, blame.....everybody and anything that protects the Democrats....how fucking sad.....

You should have blamed George Bush....thats always a good fall-back position....and especially ignore WHO it is thats committing the crimes in Chicago and
just about everywhere else....just throw money at the problem....thats the fix all for everything in the world to Democrats......
maybe its the fault of the rich....that excuse seems to be in vogue....

Poor Bfgrn
 
What a pinhead.....all you can do is blame, blame, blame.....everybody and anything that protects the Democrats....how fucking sad.....

You should have blamed George Bush....thats always a good fall-back position....and especially ignore WHO it is thats committing the crimes in Chicago and
just about everywhere else....just throw money at the problem....thats the fix all for everything in the world to Democrats......
maybe its the fault of the rich....that excuse seems to be in vogue....

Poor Bfgrn

You failed to respond to his post.

You failed to saying intelligent related to his post.

You blamed him for assigning blame.

You are a failure.
 
You failed to respond to his post.

You failed to saying intelligent related to his post.

You blamed him for assigning blame.

You are a failure.

Bravo and Rahowa X are slobbering to blame this on Obama. They didn't give a rat's @ss about Chicago crime before.
 
Sad...

I remember the debate over the 1994 Crimes Bill and how Republicans and the right demonized the most constructive part of that bill.

In the early to mid 90's Congress crafted a crimes bill. The original funding framework called for equal thirds of the money to go to 1) police enforcement 2) prisons 3) crime prevention

That's impossible. Lol, sorry.


bravo said:
What a pinhead.....all you can do is blame, blame, blame.....everybody and anything that protects the Democrats....how fucking sad.....

You should have blamed George Bush....thats always a good fall-back position....and especially ignore WHO it is thats committing the crimes in Chicago and
just about everywhere else
....just throw money at the problem....thats the fix all for everything in the world to Democrats......
maybe its the fault of the rich....that excuse seems to be in vogue....

Poor Bfgrn

WHO is that bravo?
 
Bravo and Rahowa X are slobbering to blame this on Obama. They didn't give a rat's @ss about Chicago crime before.

What I don't understand is why he does not give a shit??? These are his people getting killed. You don't see Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton marching up and down the streets to tell the people to stop killing one another. But yet let one Hispanic Obama supporter kill a 17 year old gang banger and you all crawl out of the wood work and want to blame the white man for all the violence in the world.
 
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