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| 2012-08-28 | ||
| The huge number of almost daily deaths sounded like stuff from South of the US Southern border. Now we know why. Mexican drug cartels fight turf battles in Chicago CHICAGO - Gun violence is out of control in Chicago. Just last night, there were eight shootings, two of them deadly. That pushes the total so far in 2012 to 351 shooting deaths -- up 30 percent from last year. Drug gangs are a big reason. In an afternoon drive on Chicago's southwest side, Jack Riley sees signs of what he calls the "toxic" drug war laying waste to this city. DEA Special Agent in Charge Jack Riley told CBS News that turf battles over drugs are turning parts of Chicago into a Mexican border town. Daily turf battles over drugs and distribution, he said, are turning parts of this Midwest city into a Mexican border town. "One of the hardest jobs I've had in the past couple of years is to convince our law enforcement partners that we need an enforcement mentality as if we're on the border," Riley said.
As it stands now, at least three major Mexican cartels are battling over control of billions of dollars of marijuana, cocaine and -- increasingly -- heroin in this city. That includes the ultra-violent Zetas and the powerful Sinaloa cartel, run by its shadowy leader Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman.
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| Posted by:Fleatle Hitler5512 |
| #7 Gee, do you think that the ATF supplying Mexican gangs with guns might have made them more deadly? |
| Posted by: Frozen Al 2012-08-28 14:43 |
| #6 I would think that as soon as they can admit Chicago is not utopia, they will need outside assistance which of course includes funding. I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago... I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages. -Rudyard Kipling Chicago Values, September 20, 2002 Police say a father and son ran onto the field at Comiskey Park and attacked (Kansas City Royals 1st Base Coach Tom) Gamboa, who said after the game that he had no idea what provocation the men had. The two, both shirtless and wearing blue jeans, ran dashed directly toward the Gamboa, 54, and knocked him to the ground with a series of blows. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2012-08-28 13:44 |
| #5 Kinda make you wonder if he's getting a piece of the action. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2012-08-28 12:19 |
| #4 So how's that open border thingy working out for ya, Rahm? |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2012-08-28 12:15 |
| #3 But yet bankrupt Detroit is comparatively quiet to the Windy City. I see it as yet another symptom of the decline of the Motor City - people just don't have the wherewithal to go out and murder each other any more. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2012-08-28 00:59 |
| #2 ION DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > [Information Clearing House = Paul Craig Roberts] AMERICA'S DESCENT INTO POVERTY. ARTIC > ROBERTS = the USA as a Nation, Society has ALREADY COLLAPSED, NOT "MIGHT/MAY COLLAPSE", ECONOMICALLY, POLITICALLY, LEGALLY, SOULFULLY/MORALLY, CONSTITUTIONALLY, and ENVIRONMENTALLY. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2012-08-28 00:54 |
| #1 But yet bankrupt Detroit is comparatively quiet to the Windy City. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2012-08-28 00:46 |