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-Lurid Crime Tales-

It's Time To Pull Out of Chicago

2012-06-11

Eight dead and 49 wounded in Chicago this weekend read this morning's headlines. After 178 years of occupation, it is obvious that we are unable to quell the violence in Chicago and we should bring our people home.

Week after week the carnage piles up. Memorial Day weekend saw 10 dead and more than 40 wounded with monthly death tolls usually higher than Baghdad or Kabul.

While 2011 saw a slight decline in murders from 2010 (2010 saw 431 murders through December 29, there were 432 in the same period in 2010), they soared by 60 percent during the first quarter of 2012 to 120 compared to 75 in the same period of 2011.

Americans have apparently been unable to quell the violence despite having several National Guard and Reserve military units permanently based in the vicinity. At the current pace, we are on track to see more violent deaths in Chicago than US soldiers killed in Iraq in 2003 (486).

We should simply admit that we have tried, but we have failed. We should begin the withdrawal of our people from Chicago.

Posted by:crosspatch

#13 "Detroit is worse" - true, but the US is withdrawing from there as fast as possible.

Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2012-06-11 23:15

#12 Detroit is worse.

Posted by: Pappy 2012-06-11 18:22

#11 Of course - if you include all the dead, felons, and imaginary friends - Chicago has more influence on elections than ever before!

Posted by: CrazyFool 2012-06-11 18:17

#10 You know where the architects of Fast and Furious came from? Chicago. When it comes to seeding and tending to the "Gardens of Death", their is non better than the regime.

Posted by: Chavins and Company8995 2012-06-11 17:45

#9 ...in Chicago that only applies to Republicans cause someone has got to pay taxes. Donks don't care if you're alive or dead, just as long as you vote Donk.

Posted by: Procopius2k 2012-06-11 17:34

#8 Maybe they should pass a law making it illegal to kill someone with a gun.

Posted by: SteveS 2012-06-11 16:58

#7 All they need now is a power shortage to shut the AC off and all hell will break loose.

Posted by: crosspatch 2012-06-11 14:39

#6 9AM CDT it was 9 dead 60 wounded with a hot dry ten day forecast

Posted by: Bertie Chuse1259 2012-06-11 14:35

#5 Well, to be accurate, lowest since 1910. It was a little lower in 1910 but higher in 1920.

Posted by: crosspatch 2012-06-11 13:17

#4 Chicago's population has fallen to what it was in 1910. Illinois saw an increase of about a half a million people between 2000 and 2010 while the city of Chicago and Cook County lost 200,418.

What that means is that the political influence of Chicago within the state of Illinois is falling. It has slightly less influence on elections than it had at its peak population (and thereby political influence) in 1960 because it has a declining portion of the overall population of Illinois.

Posted by: crosspatch 2012-06-11 13:17

#3 That's a lot of murders for a place that outlaws guns.

Posted by: Hellfish 2012-06-11 12:54

#2 Some places, nation-building just isn't going to work no matter what you do.

Posted by: Richard Aubrey 2012-06-11 12:28

#1 Any famous politicians from Chicago?

Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2012-06-11 12:17

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