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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Can Rahm Emanuel solve problem of violence, mistrust? Can anyone?
2016-05-13
[Chicago Tribune] reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown
... home of Al Capone, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel,...
's Mayor Rahm Emanuel isn't in a difficult position. He's in an impossible position.
It's not his fault! Nobody can eat 1,000 bananas in a single setting. Why can't we just help OJ find the real murderer ?
He was once a national media darling, given warm wet kisses by the Beltway media that could see the ambition in the man and predicted a future for him outside Chicago.
And who were afraid of what he could do to them when he was Champ's right hand fist...
But those days are done. And now when it comes to the blood pooling on the streets of his city, he's all but lost.

Homicides are up. Shootings are up from last year too. Police are overworked and overstressed. Their morale is caving, and scandals and resentment brew over promotions tests that look as if they were handled the old-fashioned political way.
The police that Rahm has no respect for, and they've returned the lack of respect. In spades...
Meanwhile,
...back at the game, the Babe headed for second base. He almost made it. Then Sheila slapped him....
 the neighborhoods on the South and West sides where most of the killings take place don't trust the cops, or the mayor.

And based on the increased shootings and killings already this year, Chicago is right to fear it will all get much worse.

The mayor is in a tough spot, some of it his own making, but much of it the result of decades of complete dysfunction of institutions, communities and families in the Democratic city that used to work.
It hasn't worked since the end of the '60s when Richard the Elder was mayor. We had a series of hacks and fools follow that man. Ritchie Short-Shanks set up the final fall, and it's occurring on Rahm's watch.
And cops don't trust him to have their backs.

The street gangs pull the triggers at ever increasing rates and mock the police. I hear stories of gangbangers in cars screeching their tires, driving doughnuts on the pavement with squad cars nearby, the riders leering, daring, mocking the cops who sit there.

That kind of thing doesn't make the news. But neighborhoods have eyes. The people see. They know what it means. The thugs are fearless now. The polls show that those who live in Chicago's war zones beg for the shootings to stop. But they don't want cops coming in rough.

Black Chicago doesn't trust the mayor, not since he suppressed that video of Laquan McDonald, the black teenager shot 16 times by Jason Van Dyke, a white police officer.
Posted by:Fred

#13  My son trained in an emergency room on Chicago's South side for 3 weeks before he went to Afghanistan as a flight medic.
Posted by: whitecollar redneck   2016-05-13 18:57  

#12  Bobby, I believe Rudy was term-limited out of office, not voted out. Bloomberg changed the rules so he could get a third term.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia   2016-05-13 18:45  

#11  ...it's like their accounting is a merit based system.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2016-05-13 17:54  

#10  Shot at, but missed: ??
Posted by: trailing wife   2016-05-13 14:38  

#9  Chicago 2016:
Year to Date
Shot & Killed: 197
Shot & Wounded: 1080
Total Shot: 1277
Total Homicides: 221
Posted by: Percy McCoy7690   2016-05-13 13:01  

#8  The somebody voted out Rudy and voted in more dem hacks. They don't seem to learn, do they? The proles, I mean.
Posted by: Bobby   2016-05-13 12:50  

#7  Didn't Giuliani turn it around for New York? Seems to me it could be done if they just had the right guy in office. But then, it is Chicago.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305   2016-05-13 11:54  

#6  The conservatives should personalize this disaster. Post pictures and names of each murder victim. Do not refer to statistics. Keep a running tally of victims after the each weekend of chaos. Policy disasters have consequences...and in this case we should know the names of the victims paid the price of Emanuel's policy decisions.
Posted by: Tennessee   2016-05-13 11:38  

#5  The newest wrinkle is the surge in shoot em ups taking place on the expressways as opposed to the neighborhoods. Crime scene results in a big shut down of a major artery for 4-5 hours.
Posted by: Capsu78   2016-05-13 10:19  

#4  Frank, I thought it was, "Hold me closer Tony Danza".
Posted by: Deacon Blues   2016-05-13 09:08  

#3  The polls show that those who live in Chicago's war zones beg for the shootings to stop. But they don't want cops coming in rough.

then STFU. You'll get what you asked for, good and hard
Posted by: Frank G   2016-05-13 08:02  

#2  Hold me closer, Tiny Dancer
Posted by: Frank G   2016-05-13 07:59  

#1  This situation reminds me of the problems faced fighting the Islamists - the bulk of the Muslims claim they want the bad ones to behave but they get all huffy if we hurt a baby bunny when we try to help. They provide the sea for the Islamofascist fish to swim in.
Posted by: Glenmore   2016-05-13 00:30  

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