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| The Real Reasons for Chicago's Deadly Crime Wave |
| 2018-08-09 |
| h/t Instapundit It is an accepted but lamented fact of life among police officers that in order to rise on the promotional ladder, one must endorse the political fashions currently in favor among the city’s politicians. And the higher one ascends on that ladder, the more convincingly one must do so. As a consequence, reflecting the governing principles of almost any city you can name, most police chiefs are liberals, or at least pretend to be with a passing level of feigned sincerity. As a result of this, the upper levels of most police departments, most certainly those in large cities, become clogged with men and women who can recite leftist pieties as confidently as any MSNBC host, the better to curry favor with politicians whose sponsorship is essential to further promotion. All of these men and women believe themselves qualified to be the next police chief, but the one selected will have proved himself to be the most proficient panderer. But this creates a problem within a police department, to wit, a division in the rank structure between those at or near the top who adopt the leftist nostrums of the politicians, and those at the bottom who must go out onto the streets each day and confront the very real problems engendered by those very same leftist nostrums. There exists no more vivid example of this than the city of Chicago, where Hillary Clinton received 84 percent of the 2016 presidential vote, and where there hasn’t been a Republican mayor since 1931. ...But If you were somehow to identify and arrest every single one of the shooters involved in the weekend violence, you would no doubt discover that nearly all of them came from homes with absent fathers, and that nearly all of them had been previously arrested for violent crime. (They won’t come close to arresting all of the shooters, or even a quarter of them; the website Heyjackass.com reports Chicago P.D.’s murder clearance rate for 2018 so far is 14.6 percent.) |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #8 Baltimore effect . Drive around, take calls for service, be polite and take no risks. Reactive policing, safe way to make 20. |
| Posted by: NoMoreBS 2018-08-09 18:51 |
| #7 remote-control Eugenics |
| Posted by: Frank G 2018-08-09 11:31 |
| #6 Baltimore is still the winner of the place not to go to, Skidmark. A quarter of Chicago's population with more than half the number of homicides. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2018-08-09 11:08 |
| #5 Homicides during 2017 in the 50 largest cities |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2018-08-09 09:57 |
| #4 If what is going on in Chicago was going on in Iraq or Syria, we'd drone zap it. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2018-08-09 07:20 |
| #3 ...all of them came from homes with absent fathers The Toxic Matriarchy at work. It's all projection. Guess who engineered this social experiment? /rhet question B, enough know not to disrupt the postman from delivering the monthly |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2018-08-09 06:49 |
| #2 |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2018-08-09 04:08 |
| #1 “So the people (or folks) bitching the most about bloodshed are the exact same people who voted for someone who is releasing predators back into the neighborhoods where the bodies are laying thickest on the concrete. ” https://buff.ly/2nmyoXR Nailed it. Now this is a project! So many challenges... er leftists. |
| Posted by: newc 2018-08-09 02:32 |